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PhD Opportunity at CURA
Tweet The Centre for Urban Research on Austerity is looking for prospective PhD students interested in developing innovative, interdisciplinary research projects in any field related to cities, urbanism and austerity. Candidates shall submit a one-page draft proposal to Dr Adam … Continue reading
Austerity Diasporas: Brexit, Portugal and Looking to the Future
Tweet With the following post Lisa Rodan completes the four-part series on “Austerity Diasporas”, which is related to her ongoing PhD research onthe experience of Portuguese migrants affected by the 2008 crash and ensuing austerity. The first post focussed on … Continue reading
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Tagged adaptation, austerity, Brexit, migration, portugal
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The Future of Capitalism with Wolfgang Streeck
Tweet In this special edition of the CURA podcast we talk to Wolfgang Streeck, Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, about his works “Buying Time” (2013) and “How Will Capitalism End?” (2016). You can listen and … Continue reading
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Tagged austerity, capitalism, democracy, financialisation, marxism, neoliberalism, political economy
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Austerity Diasporas: Portuguese-British Identity
Tweet Lisa Rodan continues our “Austerity Diasporas” series, with a third post related to her ongoing PhD research into the experiences of Portuguese migrants affected by the 2008 crash and ensuing austerity. The first post focused on social changes leading up to the 2011 … Continue reading
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Portugal and austerity: what European model?
Tweet In today’s blog post, Roberto Falanga and Simone Tulumello describe the trajectory of Portuguese austerity politics, from the post-crash bailout. Portugal is often held up as an example of anti-austerity politics, especially by the left in other countries. Roberto … Continue reading
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Austerity Diasporas – Portugal and Migration
Tweet Lisa Rodan continues our “Austerity Diasporas” series, with a second post related to her ongoing PhD research into the experiences of Portuguese migrants affected by the 2008 crash and ensuing austerity. The first post focused on social changes leading up to the … Continue reading
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Austerity Diasporas – Households in Crisis: Austerity, Migration and Family in Portuguese London
Tweet In today’s post Lisa Rodan introduces a series of publications on her ongoing PhD research into how Portuguese migrants understand their lives and experiences in relation to the political and social changes wrought by the 2008 financial crisis and the … Continue reading
How the world’s first Social Impact Bond drained public resources, and why the market model fails forward
Tweet In today’s blog, Robert Ogman argues that success stories on the social investment market are hiding inconvenient truths, and require honest rethink about such risky and expensive policy experiments In 2009, when governments took on enormous debts to rescue … Continue reading
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Dissemination Report: Governing in and Against Austerity
Tweet We are delighted to publish our dissemination report for the Austerity Governance project. It is titled Governing in and Against Austerity and provides an overview and reports initial findings from our eight case studies of austerity governance in Athens, Baltimore, … Continue reading
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Austerity and Food Poverty: the vicious circle of obesity, ill-health and deprivation
Tweet In today’s post Hillary Shaw and Julia Shaw consider the links between poverty, poor diet and ill health. In the UK, escalating food, fuel and housing costs, stagnating incomes and poor employment prospects have realised a fateful and catastrophic … Continue reading →