Austerity Across Europe: Lived Experiences of Economic Crises

ISBN-13: 9780367673741 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 212 str.

Sarah Marie Hall; Helena Pimlott-Wilson; John Horton

Opis

Drawing together multidisciplinary research exploring everyday life in Europe during a time of economic crisis, this book explores the ways in which austerity policies are lived and experienced, with attention to the measures used by individuals, families and communities to help them ‘get by’.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: austerity across Europe: lived experiences of economic crises  Part I: Intergenerational relations and exchanges  2. Eating out, sharing food and social exclusion: young people in low-income families in the UK and Norway  3. 'I feel like it's just going to get worse': young people, marginality and neoliberal personhoods in austere times  4. Austerity, youth and the city: experiences of austerity and place by disadvantaged urban youth in Ireland  5. Children and families coping with austerity in Catalonia  Part II: Ways of coping through crises  6. An informal welfare? Urban resilience and spontaneous solidarity in Naples, Italy, after the Great Recession  7. Austerity and men’s hidden family participation in low-income families in the UK  8. Austerity, economic crisis and children: the case of Cyprus  9. Beyond coping: families and young people’s journeys through austerity, relational poverty and stigma  10. Escaping from capitalism: the enactment of alternative lifeworlds in France’s mountain regions  Part III: Community, civic and state infrastructures  11. E-government and digital by default: normalising austerity as the new norm  12. Requesting labour activation without addressing inequalities: a move towards racialised workfare in Slovakia  13. How to keep control? Everyday practices of governing urban marginality in a time of massive outmigration in Hungary  14. Care, austerity and citizenship: story-telling as protest in anti-austerity activism in the UK