Tag: Austerity

The Cracked Art World Conflict, Austerity, and Community Arts in Northern Ireland


Free Download Kayla Rush, "The Cracked Art World: Conflict, Austerity, and Community Arts in Northern Ireland "
English | ISBN: 1800735332 | 2022 | 184 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book presents a nuanced view of Northern Ireland, a place at once deeply mired in its past and seeking to forge a new future for itself as a ‘post-post-conflict’ place within the context of a changing United Kingdom, a disintegrating Europe, and a globalized world. This is a Northern Ireland that is conflicted, segregated, and marginalized within modern Europe, but also hopeful and forward looking, seeking to articulate for itself a new place in the contemporary world.

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Austerity The Lived Experience


Free Download Bryan Evans, "Austerity: The Lived Experience"
English | ISBN: 1487522037 | 2017 | 368 pages | PDF | 19 MB
Bryan M. Evans, Stephen McBride, and their contributors delve further into the more practical, ground-level side of the austerity equation in Austerity: The Lived Experience.

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Crisis, Austerity, and Transformation How Disciplinary Neoliberalism Is Changing Portugal


Free Download Isabel David, "Crisis, Austerity, and Transformation: How Disciplinary Neoliberalism Is Changing Portugal"
English | ISBN: 1498543871 | 2018 | 226 pages | PDF | 35 MB
Discussions of the recent austerity measures in Southern Europe as a response to the sovereign debt crisis have been usually framed in terms of their economic impact. However, the general impoverishment of these countries has induced other massive social and political changes, a fact which is ignored in the literature. This volume seeks to fill this gap and break ground by analyzing these trends in the Portuguese context.

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