{"id":573,"date":"2010-12-20T10:04:42","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T10:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/?p=573"},"modified":"2010-12-28T17:33:32","modified_gmt":"2010-12-28T17:33:32","slug":"the-politics-of-pain-keep-calm-carry-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/?p=573","title":{"rendered":"The Politics of Pain &#8211; Keep Calm &#038; Carry On?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On December 8th 2010 CCSR held a seminar on the implications of ideas of shared  &#8216;pain&#8217; which have become so central to the coalition  government&#8217;s discourse of austerity. Speakers were Kate Pickett (co-author of <em>The Spirit Level<\/em>), Michael Rustin (of UEL and <em>Soundings<\/em>), and Jeremy Gilbert. Matthew Reisz, <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/39d3j44\" target=\"_blank\" >writing in the <em>THE<\/em><\/a>, noted how the event coincided with students taking to the streets &#8216;ahead of last week&#8217;s tuition-fees vote&#8217; and the occupation of part of UEL&#8217;s campus.  An Audio Recording of the seminar is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.culturalstudies.org.uk\/Audio\/CCSR%20podcast\/The%20Politics%20of%20Pain.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and a copy of Jeremy\u2019s paper &#8216;Sharing the Pain&#8217; is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.culturalstudies.org.uk\/Sharing%20the%20Pain.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" >here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics of Pain event takes place against the background of student protests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25],"tags":[7,27,18,40,35,47],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":576,"href":"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions\/576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}