Austerity and precarity in the age of globalization
Code
615525002
Study programme
Mestrado Universitario en Políticas Sociais e Intervención Sociocomunitaria
Descriptors
Cycle
Period
Year
Type
Credits
Official Master's Degree
2nd four-month period
First
Obligatory
6
Language
Spanish
Galician
Teaching method
Face-to-face
Prerequisites
Department
Socioloxía e Ciencias da Comunicación
Coordinador
Rodríguez Barcón, Alberto
E-mail
alberto.barcon@udc.es
Lecturers
Rodríguez Barcón, Alberto
E-mail
alberto.barcon@udc.es
Web
General description
Within the framework of the Graduate Program in Social Policy, this course represents a critical reflection on the evolution of capitalism. This entails gaining knowledge about the crises of the system and the proposed solutions and models to overcome them.
The course will thoroughly examine the consequences of the economic model imposed after the crisis of the late seventies, as well as the social consequences derived from the neoliberal policies implemented since then. Special attention will be given to the impact of the global crisis of 2008 and its two main derivatives. Firstly, the new role of the neoliberal city and the phenomena of gentrification and touristification as new expressions of spatial inequality will be analyzed. Secondly, the impact of precariousness and austerity on the labor market within the context of new global dynamics will be explored. The course will conclude by examining Latin American and European experiences of resistance and the construction of alternatives to the model of precarity and austerity that characterizes the current stage of neoliberal capitalism.
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