Grassroots Economies

Living with Austerity in Southern Europe

AvSusana Narotzky,Susana Narotzky

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

Del i serien Anthropology, Culture and Society

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Beskrivning

The austerity crisis has radically altered the economic landscape of Southern Europe. But alongside the decimation of public services and infrastructure lies the wreckage of a generation’s visions for the future. In Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal, there is a new, difficult reality of downward mobility.Grassroots Economies interrogates the effects of the economic crisis on the livelihood of working people, providing insight into their anxieties. Drawing on a wide range of ethnographic material, it is a distinctive comparative analysis that explores the contradictions of their coping mechanisms and support structures.With a focus on gender, the book explores values and ideologies, including dispossession and accumulation. Ultimately it demonstrates that everyday interactions on the local scale provide a significant sense of the global.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-10-20
Mått:135 x 215 x 24 mm
Vikt:292 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Anthropology, Culture and Society
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Pluto Press
ISBN:9780745340234

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Ekonomisk politik inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Susana Narotzky is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Barcelona, Spain, and past President of the European Association of Social Anthropologists.

Recensioner i media

'Grassroots Economies offers an astute and heart-breaking account of the toll decades of austerity politics have taken on southern Europe. Each chapter offers remarkable insights - taken together they present a sober and illuminating portrait of dispossession and loss.'

Innehållsförteckning

List of Abbreviations Series Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Grassroots Economics in Europe - Susana NarotzkyPART I: MAKING A LIVING2. Bondage Unemployment and Intra-class Tensions in Greek Energy Restructuring - Theodora Vetta3. Work, Wage and Subsidy: Making a Living Between Regulation and Informalization - Antonio Maria Pusceddu4. Criminalizing Livelihoods: “Illegal Vegetables” and the Return to the Home - Carmen Leidereiter5. Austerity, Social Values and Value: The Social Economy and Entrepreneurship in Catalonia - Patricia HomsPART II: SOCIAL REPRODUCTION6. Austerity Welfare and the Moral Significance of Needs in Portugal - Patrícia Matos7. Family, Housing as an Asset, and the Production of Welfare - Jaime Palomera8. Social Reproduction in Times of Crisis: Inter-Generational Tensions in Southern Europe - Susana Narotzky and Antonio Maria PuscedduPART III: EXPERIENCING AND EMBODYING AUSTERITY9. The Entrepreneur’s Other: Small Entrepreneurial Identity and the Collapse of Life Structures in the “Third Italy” - Giacomo Loperfido10. The Body Politics of Austerity in Portugal and Spain: Women, Dispossession and Agency - Diana Sarkis and Patricia Matos11. Austerity from Below: Class, Temporality and Scale in Grassroots Analyses of Crisis - Diana Sarkis and Stamatis AmarianakisNotes on Contributors Index