Minority Women and Austerity: Survival and Resistance in France and Britain

ISBN-13: 9781447327134 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 168 str.

Leah Bassel; Akwugo Emejulu

Opis

As austerity measures continue throughout Europe, its effects are felt differently by different groups of citizens. This book looks at how minority women in France and Britain have coped with austerity. Crucially, it casts them not as passive victims, but as active agents finding ways to survive, using their race, class, gender, and legal status as resources for collective action at a moment when left-wing politics and non-governmental organizations have failed them. Making use of in-depth case studies, Minority Women and Austerity offers an unprecedented look at the changing relationship among the state, the market, and civil society, and the opportunities and dilemmas that creates for minority women.

Spis treści

Foreword by Patricia Hill Collins Taking minority women's activism seriously Theorising and resisting 'political racelessness' in Europe Whose crisis counts? Enterprising activism The politics of survival Learning across cases, learning beyond 'cases' Conclusion: warning signs