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Introduction: Narrative, Difference, Austerity

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Narratives of Difference in an Age of Austerity

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This chapter sets out the methodological approach of the book, and the argument for using narrative analysis together with an intersectional feminist approach to give critical consideration to a range of policy documents developed during the five years of Coalition government in the UK (2010–2015). It situates the book in relation to recent scholarship on austerity, crisis and the kinds of consensus that austerity policy aims to elicit from populations, and provides an overview of the book’s main arguments about how social difference and the reproductive are produced as problems to be contained within austerity narratives.

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Gedalof, I. (2018). Introduction: Narrative, Difference, Austerity. In: Narratives of Difference in an Age of Austerity. Thinking Gender in Transnational Times. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-40065-9_1

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