Crisis, Austerity, and Everyday Life: Living in a Time of Diminishing Expectations

by Gargi Bhattacharyya

Will austerity never end? This timely and insightful book argues that austerity seeks to set the terms of political and economic life for the foreseeable future, extending techniques of exclusion to ever-greater sections of the population.

235 pages, Hardcover

First published October 28, 2015

About the author

Gargi Bhattacharyya is a Professor of Sociology at the University of East London. They have written widely in the fields of racism, sexuality, global cultures and the ‘war on terror’.