Julian McDougall

Julian McDougall is Head of the Centre for Excellence in Media Practice and Associate Professor in Media and Education at Bournemouth University, UK. They are the co-editors of a forthcoming Routledge collection on Popular Culture and the Austerity Myth, considers how popular culture has reacted to the politics of austerity.

Hard Times today: popular culture and the austerity myth

The myth of ‘austerity’ is our alibi, a myth so persuasive that it has given its name across the western industrialised nations to the very age in which we live.

By Pete Bennett and Julian McDougall

/ 21 Jul 2016