This book examines steadily-growing increases in inequality within Western capitalist democracies, examining with care the differences between these democracies rooted in their culture and institutions. It highlights the differences in growth and inequalities between different countries,...

Introduction -- Neoliberalism in the Global North and South -- The Political Economy of Food and Food Insecurity -- The Political Economy of Energy and Energy Insecurity -- The Political Economy of Work and Job Insecurity -- Neoliberal Governmentality, Competition, Individual Responsibility, and...

Introduction -- Part 1. British Academic Labour. British academic labour, digital media and capitalism -- Precarious, always-on and flexible: How temporarily employed staff experience the working conditions at UK universities -- Part 2. German Academic Labour. German universities and academic...

Introduction. Making sense of culture and music space during and beyond the pandemic / Jo Haynes and Ian Woodward -- Part I. Affects. Festival atmospheres : social, spatial, and material explorations of physically distanced Festivals / Britt Swartjes and Femke Vandenberg ; How live is live?...

The chair : a short history of structural unfreedom, anti-democracy, and disenfranchisement in German academia / Britta Ohm -- What is tenure? / Lisa Cerami -- Disability studies as a subaltern discipline / Colin Cameron -- Living on the edge : continuous precarity undermines academic freedom...

"Developing a contemporary account of political friendship and synthesizing it with the radical movement of degrowth this book provides the ethical grounding and the rationale of an alternative economy which serves human flourishing. The Aristotelian political friendship embodies active concern...