TY - JOUR
T1 - 'If we do not cut social spending, we will end up like Greece': Challenging consent to austerity through social work action
AU - Pentaraki, Maria
PY - 2013/11
Y1 - 2013/11
N2 - 'If we do not cut social spending, we will end up like Greece'. Establishment politicians and media figures use this new ideological mantra throughout the Western world to frighten people into consenting to further neo-liberal restructuring along with cuts in social spending. This phrase and other ideologically laden assertions hide the real causes of the Greek public debt crisis. This commentary challenges the dominant discourse by contextualizing the Greek case within the larger global neo-liberal restructuring processes and then, drawing upon Gramsci's concept of the organic intellectual, proposes ways that the members of the Professional Association of Social Workers (PASW) can engage in a war of ideas and action, as organic intellectuals, to delegitimize the dominant discourse, which seeks consent for social spending cuts and further neo-liberal restructuring of society.
AB - 'If we do not cut social spending, we will end up like Greece'. Establishment politicians and media figures use this new ideological mantra throughout the Western world to frighten people into consenting to further neo-liberal restructuring along with cuts in social spending. This phrase and other ideologically laden assertions hide the real causes of the Greek public debt crisis. This commentary challenges the dominant discourse by contextualizing the Greek case within the larger global neo-liberal restructuring processes and then, drawing upon Gramsci's concept of the organic intellectual, proposes ways that the members of the Professional Association of Social Workers (PASW) can engage in a war of ideas and action, as organic intellectuals, to delegitimize the dominant discourse, which seeks consent for social spending cuts and further neo-liberal restructuring of society.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84886401185&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0261018313489941
DO - 10.1177/0261018313489941
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84886401185
VL - 33
SP - 700
EP - 711
JO - Critical Social Policy
JF - Critical Social Policy
SN - 0261-0183
IS - 4
ER -