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Title:

Grassroots economies : living with austerity in southern Europe / edited by Susana Narotzky.

Publisher:

Pluto Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xi, 247 pages : 1 illustration ; 22 cm

Subject:

Europe, Southern--Economic conditions--21st century.
Europe, Southern--Social conditions--21st century.
Europe, Southern--Economic policy--21st century.
Working class--Europe, Southern--Economic conditions--21st century.
Downward mobility (Social sciences)--Europe, Southern--History--21st century.
Unemployment--Europe, Southern--History--21st century.
Unemployed--Mental health--Europe, Southern.
Self-employed--Europe, Southern--Economic conditions--21st century.
Women--Europe, Southern--Economic conditions--21st century.
Economic history.
Social conditions.
Southern Europe.
2000-2099

Other Authors:

Narotzky, Susana, editor. editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 / Patricia 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.

Series:

Anthropology, culture and society

ISBN:

0745340237
9780745340234
0745340229
9780745340227

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1198094678

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)