In the aftermath of the global banking crises, a political economy of permanent state austerity
has emerged, driven by and legitimated through a hardening anti-welfare commonsense …

Drawing on 24 group interviews on celebrity with 148 students aged 14–17 across six
schools, we show that 'hard work'is valued by young people in England. We argue that we …

In this paper, we consider how the cultural politics of austerity within Britain plays out on the
celebrity maternal body. We locate austerity as a discursive and disciplinary field and …

In this article, we offer a timely socio-cultural analysis, informed by a critical disability
perspective, of UK Channel 4's reality television series Benefits Street. Drawing on the work …

In this thesis, I discuss media representations of social class. My particular focus is on
entertaining television formats and as an empirical example, I analyse the BBC Three …