ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|55 pages
Intergenerational relations and exchanges
chapter 2|13 pages
Eating out, sharing food and social exclusion
chapter 3|13 pages
‘I feel like it’s just going to get worse’
chapter 4|14 pages
Austerity, youth and the city
part II|72 pages
Ways of coping through crises
chapter 9|15 pages
Beyond coping
chapter 10|16 pages
Escaping from capitalism
part III|54 pages
Community, civic and state infrastructures