Title:	The Politics of Dependence
Authors:	Patrick J. L. Cockburn
Keywords:	Dependence
Issue Date:	2018
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Description:	This book is an attack on the idea of ‘the self-made man.’ The sense of independence and merit concentrated in that idea quickly dilutes once we actually take the trouble to look at our economic practices. But as societies we often fail to do this. Why? Unfortunately, the contrast between independence and dependence is a very useful political weapon. I wrote this book at a time when it was once again becoming normal and acceptable in public political discourse to openly scapegoat social groups and suggest that their removal would bring justice and prosperity. In June 2016, voters in the UK voted to leave the European Union after months of political campaigning stigmatising European nationals in the UK, and resulting in increased violence against immigrants and pro-EU politicians. In November 2016, Donald Trump was elected President of the USA on a platform that promised to build a wall between the USA and Mexico in order to stop illegal immigration. In Germany, the anti-migrant far-right political party, Alternative für Deutschland, made signifcant advances in the September 2017 federal elections. In Denmark, where I am writing this book, The Danish People’s Party is so popular (21% of the vote in 2015) that other major parties scramble to fnd policies that are equally hostile to refugees—housing them in tents in isolated areas made the ‘Integration Minister’ the most popular minister in government for many months. This is not a book about national politics, immigration, racism, religion or xenophobia; it is a book about economic dependence. But charges of illegitimate economic dependence are very often part of the fuel on which the politics of hate burns.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/55657
ISBN:	978-3-319-78908-8
Appears in Collections:	Population Studies

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