Full Description
Drawing together multidisciplinary research exploring everyday life in Europe during times of economic crisis, this book explores the ways in which austerity policies are lived and experienced - often alongside other significant social, political and personal change. With attention to the inequalities produced by these processes and the measures used by individuals, families and communities to help them 'get by', it also envisages hopeful, affirmative socio-political futures. Arranged around the themes of intergenerational relations and exchanges, ways of coping through crises, and community, civic and state infrastructures, Austerity Across Europe will appeal to social scientists with interests in everyday life, family practices, neoliberal state policy, poverty and socio-economic inequalities.
Contents
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
