The Global Life of Austerity

<p> Austerity and structural adjustment programs are just the latest forms of neoliberal policy to have a profoundly damaging impact on the targeted populations. Yet as the contributors to this collection argue the recent austerity-related European crisis is not a breach of erstwhile development schemes but a continuation of economic policies. Using historical analysis and ethnographically-grounded research this volume shows the similarities of the European conundrum with realities outside Europe seeing austerity in a non-Eurocentric fashion. In doing so it offers novel insights as to how economic crises are experienced at a global level.</p>