Narratives Of Difference In An Age Of Austerity (thinking Gender In Transnational Times)
by Irene Gedalof /
2017 / English / EPUB
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This book traces the narrative strategies framing austerity
policies through an illuminating analysis of policy documents and
political discourses, exposing the political consequences for
women, racialized minorities and disabled people. While many have
critiqued the ways in which austerity has captured the
contemporary political narrative, this is the first book to
systematically examine how these narratives work to shift the
terms within which policy debates about inequality and difference
play out. Gedalof’s exceptional readings of these texts pay close
attention to the formal qualities of these narratives: the
chronologies they impose, their articulation of crisis and
resolution, the points of view they construct and the affective
registers they deploy. In this manner she argues persuasively
that the differences of gender, race, ethnicity and disability
have been stitched into the fabric of austerity as excesses that
must be disavowed, as reproductive burdens that are too great for
the austere state to bear. This innovative, intersectional
analysis will appeal to students and scholars of social policy,
gender studies, politics and public policy.
This book traces the narrative strategies framing austerity
policies through an illuminating analysis of policy documents and
political discourses, exposing the political consequences for
women, racialized minorities and disabled people. While many have
critiqued the ways in which austerity has captured the
contemporary political narrative, this is the first book to
systematically examine how these narratives work to shift the
terms within which policy debates about inequality and difference
play out. Gedalof’s exceptional readings of these texts pay close
attention to the formal qualities of these narratives: the
chronologies they impose, their articulation of crisis and
resolution, the points of view they construct and the affective
registers they deploy. In this manner she argues persuasively
that the differences of gender, race, ethnicity and disability
have been stitched into the fabric of austerity as excesses that
must be disavowed, as reproductive burdens that are too great for
the austere state to bear. This innovative, intersectional
analysis will appeal to students and scholars of social policy,
gender studies, politics and public policy.