Essays about: "austerity"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 41 essays containing the word austerity.

  1. 21. “The War for the Imagination” : Author Representations of the UK Public Library Service in an Age of Austerity

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för ABM, digitala kulturer samt förlags- och bokmarknadskunskap

    Author : Anna Karlsson; [2018]
    Keywords : Public library; librarians; public library development; public debate; United Kingdom; authors; austerity; Big Society; public library closures; funding cuts; field theory; four-space model; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This study explores author texts on public libraries in the United Kingdom between the years 2010 and 2018. The texts appear in a national public debate about the value, purpose and direction of the library service following a significant number of library closures and funding cuts. READ MORE

  3. 22. Cultivating Social Capital in Thessaloniki : Contesting neoliberal governance on Urban Agricultural Gardens

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Andrew Gallagher; [2018]
    Keywords : Sustainable Development; Urban Agricultural Gardens; Social Capital; Empowerment; Neoliberal Governance; Contestation.;

    Abstract : The economic crisis of 2008 and subsequent implementation of austerity policies in Greece has had profound negative socio-economic impacts on Greek citizens. One way people seek to improve their socio-economic conditions is through participation in community organisations that have been studied for their ability to provide access to resources and representation. READ MORE

  4. 23. Financialization and human rights abuses provoked by business: the case of Samarco disaster in Brazil

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Rebeca Borges Machado Azevedo Leitão; [2017-09-13]
    Keywords : shareholder value; market discipline; mining industry; legally-binding instrument; Mariana;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to explore the implications of the financialization process on human rights compliance by business, based on an analysis of the Samarco case, in Brazil. In 2015, Samarco Company’s tailing dam collapsed and killed people, destroyed the surroundings and polluted 650 km of a river basin’s waters. READ MORE

  5. 24. No Care for Distance : The (Market) Logic of Regionalizing Maternity Care

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

    Author : Martin Westin; [2017]
    Keywords : Social Reproduction; Neoliberalism; Maternity Care; Regionalization; Spatial Inequality;

    Abstract : A wave of maternity unit closure is sweeping through the North Atlantic zone, leaving rural communities without the care they crucially need. In its wake resistance grows, mobilizing against closures in the face of a discourse of economic efficiency and neoliberal austerity. READ MORE

  6. 25. The Impact of Social Movements on Political Parties : Examining whether anti-austerity social movements have had an impact on social democratic political parties in Ireland and Spain, 2011-2016

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Brian Bolger; [2016]
    Keywords : social movements; social democratic parties; party change; political opportunity structure; Ireland; Spain; Right2Water; Movimiento 15-M; Labour Party; PSOE; austerity;

    Abstract : Research on social movements has traditionally addressed issues of movement emergence and mobilisation, paying little attention to their outcomes and consequences. Moreover, despite research on the political consequences of social movements accelerating in recent years, much has been left under researched, no more so than the impact social movements have on one of the most important actors in liberal democracies: political parties. READ MORE