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Grassroots Economies

Living with Austerity in Southern Europe

Susana Narotzky (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
272 Seiten
2020
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-0-7453-4023-4 (ISBN)
CHF 48,85 inkl. MwSt
A comparative ethnography of the responses on the ground to austerity policies in Southern Europe
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.

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

List of Abbreviations

Series Preface

Acknowledgements

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

Notes on Contributors

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Anthropology, Culture and Society
Zusatzinfo 1 Tables, black and white; 1 Figures
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 135 x 215 mm
Gewicht 292 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10 0-7453-4023-7 / 0745340237
ISBN-13 978-0-7453-4023-4 / 9780745340234
Zustand Neuware
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