Wednesday, 27 April 2016 at 2:00 pm – Wednesday, 27 April 2016 at 8:00 pm
Austerity: Local and Global
Austerity: Local and Global
Date: Wednesday 27th April 2016
Time: 2pm – 4.30pm: Daytime panel sessions - £5 (catering included)
5.45pm – 8.00pm: Evening presentations and discussion - FREE
Location: 70 Oxford St, Manchester M1 5NH
Tickets: Both tickets available here: https://austerity-local-and-global.eventbrite.com
As poverty, inequality and precarious employment spread across the globe, the word ‘austerity’ has been transformed in academic and political discourse from a description of temporary hardship, into a political and economic neoliberal agenda. Is austerity really the only long-term future? Is it merely a temporary hiccup in global/local policies? How can we bring into being, another and more equal world?
Austerity: Local and Global brings together a panel of scholars from a diverse range of disciplines to explore the origins, local and international formats, and potential trajectories of the austerity agenda. The daytime event will feature a postgraduate and activist panel, including a guest speaker from the Manchester People's Assembly.
Evening session papers include:
Prof. Raymond Tallis (University of Manchester) ‘The Dismantling of the NHS: from Lord Howe’s Wicked Dream to George Osborne’s Austerity’
Prof. Sylvia Chant (Geography, the LSE) ‘Questioning the ‘Feminisation of Poverty’ in the Global South, and the Wisdom of Feminised Anti-poverty Policy Approaches’
Prof. Guy Standing (SOAS) ‘The Precariat: Why Rentiers thrive and Work does not Pay’
Convened by Dr Susie Hudson (Department of Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University)
This event is part of Humanities in Public's World strand.
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