Austerity and the Production of Hate

Burnett, Jon

Abstract

The Violence of Austerity collects the voices of campaigners and academics to show that rather than stimulating economic growth, austerity policies dismantled the social systems that operated as a buffer against economic hardship, exposing austerity to be a form of systematic violence.

This article highlights the troubling way that the government has manipulated public discourse to turn the population against some of Britain’s most vulnerable people. It contends that the ‘scrounger’ and anti-migrant rhetoric espoused by politicians and their media mouthpieces is indivisible from austerity politics, helping to sustain it by obscuring its effects.

Citation

Burnett, J. (2017). Austerity and the Production of Hate. In V. Cooper, & D. Whyte (Eds.), The Violence of Austerity (217-223). London: Pluto Press

• Online Publication Date: May 31, 2017
• Publication Date: May 18, 2017
• Deposit Date: Apr 5, 2023
• Pages: 217-223
• Book Title: The Violence of Austerity
• Chapter Number: 24
• ISBN: 9780745399485 ; 978 0745337463
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4076118
• Publisher URL: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745399485/the-violence-of-austerity/
• Contract Date: Sep 30, 2016