Politics of recuperation. An introduction / Francisco Martínez -- Recuperative modes of action: Reciprocity, dependence and resistance to austerity policies in rural Portugal / Ema Pires -- Beautiful people eat ugly fruit: Ugliness and the cracks of the system / André Nóvoa -- If buildings could speak: Makeshift urbanity on the outskirts of Lisbon / Giacomo Pozzi -- Geographies of public art and urban regeneration in Lisbon / Chiara Pussetti and Vitor Barros -- The compost of recuperation. Fabricating social ties in the interstices / Marcos Farias Ferreira and Francisco Martínez -- The place of recuperation. Limits and challenges of urban recovery in post-austerity Portugal / Luis Mendes and André Carmo -- Secondary agents of recuperation within the Hindu community in Lisbon / Inês Lourenço -- Recuperation and vice versa in Portuguese folk art / Maria Manuela Restivo and Luciano Moreira. Photos by Nuno Marques -- Recuperative dances: Reconnecting through Kizomba in a crisis context / Livia Jiménez Sedano -- Conclusion. Repair as repopulating the devastated desert of our political and social imaginations / Tomás Sánchez Criado -- Afterword. Micro spaces of resilience and resistance: Coping with the multiple crises in Portugal / Isabel David.
Summary:
"How did Portuguese society recover after the economic crisis? Through a range of ethnographic case studies focusing on the Portuguese recovery, this book begins a conversation about the experience of recuperation and repair. It addresses how the recovery of relations creates something transcendental, adds a human dimension to the public sphere and expands our conception of what constitutes the political. Located in the cracks and gaps between the state and society, recuperation appears as a social and infrastructural answer linked to reciprocity, critical urbanity, generational interweaving, alternate ordering and reconnection of different bodies and histories. With chapters looking at public art in Lisbon and recuperative modes of action, this collection takes a thorough look at a society in crisis and shows how the people of the community create micro-politics of resistance. Ultimately, Politics of Recuperation reflects on the meaning of personal and collective resilience in Europe today, as well as on the limits and interstices of contemporary politics"--Provided by publisher.
Series:
London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology
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