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SUMMARY:Austerity Nostalgia - Owen Hatherley\, guest speaker
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CONTACT:Annalena Di Giovanni
DESCRIPTION:Nostalgia for the 1940s - whether as Britain Standing Alone fo
 r the political right\, or the 'spirit of 1945' for the left - has long be
 en a feature of Britain's cultural and political landscape. But since the 
 2008 financial crisis this has become an orgy of self-congratulatory image
 ry\, exemplified in the bizarre cult of the unproduced\, formerly obscure 
 Keep Calm and Carry On poster. This talk will trace the emergence of this 
 through the fashioning of self-advertisingly austere consumerism\, the mar
 keting of the welfare state's products at the same time as their destructi
 on\, the attempted creation of a useable past by the left in the abortive 
 but still influential 'Blue Labour' movement\, and will ask whether any of
  this has had any effect on current political shifts\, whether the revived
  Bennism in the Labour party or the baffling notion of a 'red\, white and 
 blue Brexit'
LOCATION:Large Lecture Theatre\, Department of Geography
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