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The Production of Anti-Austerity Discourses and Frames

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In this chapter, the moment of production in the Circuit of Protest is addressed in more detail. It is in this moment that the movement discourses are shaped, and frames are articulated with a view to building collective identities and mobilizing for action, and where the actions themselves constitute a way to further reinforce and perform the movement discourses and their framings.

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    See Burgess (2011).

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    See Eurostat (2015).

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    This is a reaction against some 2010 statements from leading figures in the UK Conservative Party, claiming that the cuts to public services were ‘necessary’ and ‘fair’. George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer, also launched the catchphrase: ‘We're all in this together’, implying that everyone will need to make sacrifices.

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    In 2010, the cost of tuition fees for a three-year BA degree rose from £9000 (€11,000 or US$12,000) to a staggering £27,000 (€32,500 or US$36,000). This huge sum is financed by the state initially, but has to begin to be repaid once the graduate’s earnings exceed a certain threshold (in 2017, this was set at a pre-tax yearly income of £21,000/€25,000/US$28,000). In addition, the government decided also to scrap the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA), a weekly grant that college students from low-income families had received to incentivize them to continue studying.

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Cammaerts, B. (2018). The Production of Anti-Austerity Discourses and Frames. In: The Circulation of Anti-Austerity Protest. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70123-3_3

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