Care, Crisis and Activism

The Politics of Everyday Life

AvEleanor Jupp

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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What kinds of care are being offered or withdrawn by the welfare state? What does this mean for the caring practices and interventions of local activists? Shedding new light on austerity and neoliberal welfare reform in the UK, this vital book considers local action and activism within contexts of crisis, including the COVID-19 pandemic. Presenting compelling case studies of local action, from protesting cuts to children’s services to local food provisioning and support for migrant women, this book makes visible often unseen practices of activism. It shows how the creativity and persistence of such local practices can be seen as enacting wider visions of how care should be provided by society.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-02-14
Mått:156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt:410 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:172
Förlag:Bristol University Press
ISBN:9781447353003

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Eleanor Jupp is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Kent.

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“Jupp skilfully connects micro-, meso- and macro-levels through her investigation of activists’ involvement in various forms of organising (not necessarily organisations) in a welfare state shaped by austerity. Her nuanced analysis addresses the affordances and ambivalences of community activism.” The Sociological Review

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Introduction: sticking plasters and cotton wool1. Care, austerity and the politics of everyday lives2. Citizenship and community in times of crisis3. Journeys into and through local activism under austerity4. Austerity politics and infrastructures of care: Children’s Centre closures and activism5. Small stories and political change: local activism across time and space6. Provisioning in times of crisis7. Conclusions: a politics of everyday life?