Dr Jon Burnett's Outputs (4)

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

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... Read More about Austerity and the Production of Hate.

The Violence of Workfare (2017)
Book Chapter
Burnett, J., & Whyte, D. (2017). The Violence of Workfare. In V. Cooper, & D. Whyte (Eds.), The Violence of Austerity (59-66). London: Pluto Press

This chapter analyses the testimonies of 97 people who have participated in ‘workfare’ schemes in the UK and have raised concerns about the health and safety risks experienced on these placements. Overall, these placements, which were carried out bet... Read More about The Violence of Workfare.

Racial violence and the Brexit state (2017)
Journal Article
Burnett, J. (2017). Racial violence and the Brexit state. Race & class, 58(4), 85-97. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306396816686283

Research by the Institute of Race Relations into over one hundred incidents of racial violence reported in the mass media in the month after the EU referendum indicates that the ‘spike’ in such attacks has to be understood in terms of the racist clim... Read More about Racial violence and the Brexit state.

Book review of How Corrupt is Britain? Edited by Whyte, David (London: Pluto Press, 2015), 208 pp. (2017)
Journal Article
Burnett, J. (2017). Book review of How Corrupt is Britain? Edited by Whyte, David (London: Pluto Press, 2015), 208 pp. Race & class, 58(3), 103-105. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306396816667022

Book review of How Corrupt is Britain? Edited by Whyte, David (London: Pluto Press, 2015), 208 pp.