Introduction: The future of austerity
New Formations - ISSN 0950-2378
Volume 2015 Number 87
Introduction: The future of austerity
Rebecca Bramall pages -
DOI: 103898/NEWF.87.INTRODUCTION.2016
Abstract
This special issue explores some of the ways in which austerity can be construed as capturing, shaping, and (dis)organising the future. It addresses the futures that austerity has begun to assign to certain subjects and to embed in the societies they live in. It attends to the promises for the future that have unravelled in the austerity conjuncture, and the new modes of expectation that have been offered and embraced in their place. In a context of rising levels of household debt in the UK and other countries, particular attention is given to indebted imaginaries, and to Maurizio Lazzarato’s claim that the debt economy is depriving workers of their very future.
To cite this article
Rebecca Bramall (2015) Introduction: The future of austerity, New Formations, 2015(87), -. https://doi.org/103898/NEWF.87.INTRODUCTION.2016