| Variant title |
Living with austerity in southern Europe |
| Series |
Anthropology, culture and society
Anthropology, culture, and society. ^A682721
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| Contents |
1. Introduction: Grassroots Economics in Europe / Susana Narotzky -- PART I: MAKING A LIVING. 2. Bondage Unemployment and Intra-class Tensions in Greek Energy Restructuring / Theodora Vetta -- 3. Work, Wage and Subsidy: Making a Living Between Regulation and Informalization / Antonio Maria Pusceddu -- 4. Criminalizing Livelihoods: "Illegal Vegetables" and the Return to the Home / Carmen Leidereiter -- 5. Austerity, Social Values and Value: The Social Economy and Entrepreneurship in Catalonia / Patricia Homs -- PART II: SOCIAL REPRODUCTION. 6. Austerity Welfare and the Moral Significance of Needs in Portugal / Patrícia Matos -- 7. Family, Housing as an Asset, and the Production of Welfare / Jaime Palomera -- 8. Social Reproduction in Times of Crisis: Inter-Generational Tensions in Southern Europe / Susana Narotzky and Antonio Maria Pusceddu -- 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 -- 10. The Body Politics of Austerity in Portugal and Spain: Women, Dispossession and Agency / Diana Sarkis and Patricia Matos -- 11. Austerity from Below: Class, Temporality and Scale in Grassroots Analyses of Crisis / Diana Sarkis and Stamatis Amarianakis. |
| Summary |
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 rich seam 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022436145 |
| ISBN | 9780745340227 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 0745340229 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9780745340234 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 0745340237 (paperback) |
