Pluto Press Logo

40% off our Black Studies books for Black History Month!

Books

Authors

Events

On the Blog

View All Results
Laura Basu

Laura Basu

Laura Basu is a fellow in the Media and Communications Department at Goldsmiths, University of London, and at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Utrecht University. She is the author of Media Amnesia (Pluto, 2018), and editor of The Media and Austerity (Routledge, 2018).

Back

Books by the author

Media Amnesia

Media Amnesia

Rewriting the Economic Crisis

Laura Basu

How the media has been complicit in sustaining free market capitalism.
View
View all

Related Content

Blog

Wilful Forgetting:
Privatisation and Media Complicity

The political consensus on privatisation is finally breaking. But how was that consensus maintained through a decade of crisis? Laura Basu describes how the media’s fugue state is fuelling ‘free market’ capitalism.

Read full article
Blog

Anti-Austerity Reading List

From the Grenfell fire, to universal credit, austerity policies have dismantled the social systems that operated as a buffer against economic hardship. The books in this reading list implore you to fight back against austerity.

Read full article
X

Privacy Policy & Cookies

We have recently updated our Privacy Policy. This outlines how and why we collect, store and use your personal data when you use our website.

Like most websites, we use cookies to improve our service and make your user experience better. See our updated Privacy Policy to find out more about cookies and how we use your data.

 Okay, Thanks