Guilt, precariousness, and inequality: critical notes on the (un)popular narrative of the great recession

Abstract

This paper aims to critically comment on the popular narrative of the Great Recession in the Spanish state. From the theoretical-interpretative framework of feminist cultural studies and feminist economics, three key tropes of this narrative in/crisis are identified and analysed: the privatisation of guilt, the promise of a better future in the face of the normalization of precariousness, and the characterisation of the crisis as a “mancession”.