Focusing on Benefits Street, and specifically the figure of White Dee, this rapid response
article offers a feminist analysis of the relationship between media portrayals of people living …

In this short contribution, we attempt to explore the ways in which austerity measuresdeficit
reductions through tax increases and cuts to public spending-generate unexpected political …

The notion of 'cultural poverty'has a long history in the United Kingdom. The argument that
there is something culturally distinct about poor, working-class, and/or benefit recipient …

This article critically examine how Benefits Street-and the broader genre of poverty porn
television-functions to embed new forms of 'commonsense'about welfare and worklessness …

This article focuses on how middle-class women identify with 'neoliberal feminism'within the
context of UK austerity by drawing on interviews with 17 women in Leeds, London and …

Feminist scholars have begun to unpack the ways in which neoliberalism is underpinned by
particular gendered affective investments: drives for perfection, confidence, and the careful …

In the call for papers for this issue on the 'Politics of Austerity', we invited contributions that
would draw on feminist analyses to interrogate the origins, modalities and differential effects …

Geographers are beginning to more fully consider the ways in which austerity can be
encountered at and across a range of social spaces, with growing interest in how austerity …

This article explores how the activist identity is constructed within a local anti-austerity
activist culture, how it is implicitly gendered, and the emotional implications of this. Drawing …

This timely, necessary collection of essays provides feminist analyses of a recession-era
media culture characterized by the reemergence and refashioning of familiar gender tropes …