Grassroots Economies (eBook)

Living with Austerity in Southern Europe

Susana Narotzky (Herausgeber)

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2020
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-1-78680-578-2 (ISBN)

Infos

A comparative ethnography of the responses on the ground to austerity policies in Southern Europe

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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.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Grassroots economies in southern Europe and beyond - Susana Narotzky (University of Barcelona, Spain)

Part I: Making a Living

2. Bondage unemployment and intra-class tensions in Greek energy restructuring - Theodora Vetta (University of Barcelona)

3. Work, wage and subsidy: Making a living between regulation and informalization - Antonio Maria Pusceddu (Centre for Anthropological Research (CRIA), ISCTE — Lisbon University Institute)

4. Criminalizing the means of livelihood: “Illegal vegetables” and the return to the home - Carmen Leidereiter (Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, Netherlands)

5. Austerity, social values and value: The social economy and entrepreneurship in Catalonia - Patricia Homs (University of Barcelona, Spain)

Part II: Social Reproduction

6. Austerity welfare and the moral significance of needs in Portugal - Patricia Matos (Centre for Anthropological Research (CRIA), ISCTE - Lisbon University Institute)

7. Family, housing as an asset, and the production of welfare - Jaime Palomera (Institute of Government and Public Policy - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

8. Social reproduction in times of crisis: Tensions between generations in Southern Europe - Susana Narotzky (University of Barcelona, Spain) and Antonio Maria Pusceddu (Centre for Anthropological Research (CRIA), ISCTE — Lisbon University Institute)

Part III: Experiencing and Embodying Austerity

9. The Entrepreneur’s Other: Small entrepreneurial identity and the collapse of life structures in the "Third Italy" - Giacomo Loperfido (University of Barcelona, Spain)

10. The body politics of austerity in Portugal and Spain: Women, dispossession and agency - Diana Sarkis and Patricia Matos (Centre for Anthropological Research (CRIA), ISCTE - Lisbon University Institute)

11. Austerity from below: Class, temporality and scale in grassroots explanations of crisis - Diana Sarkis Fernandez (University of Barcelona, Spain) and Stamatis Amarianakis (University of Barcelona, Spain)

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.10.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Anthropology, Culture and Society
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• ISBN-10: 1-78680-578-2 / 1786805782
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78680-578-2 / 9781786805782