ABSTRACT
Portugal was one of the hardest hit EU countries by the crisis of the sovereign debts. The set of chapters in this book addresses the multiple crises experienced in Portugal since 2011, how large-scale events collide with biographical trajectories and the intersections where people practice their recuperation. Organised resistance to austerity has become an important focus of scholarship. This chapter fills in the gap, since those mechanisms constitute micro-spaces of both resistance and resilience that operate in the private sphere, yet filter up to the macro. The author uses the term ‘micro-spaces of resilience’ conceptualise non-confrontational forms of dealing with neoliberalism that are not the product of well-planned and organised resistance. The chapter provides a much needed approach to the recuperative modes of overcoming the effects of multiple crises in Portugal, from which future literature could extract inspiration at the micro-and macro-levels – for instance.
