Everyday Life in Austerity

Family, Friends and Intimate Relations
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-030-17096-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 231 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 321 g

Reihe: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life

This book is about the impact of austerity in and on everyday life, based on a two-year ethnography with families and communities in ‘Argleton’, Greater Manchester, UK. Focused on family, friends and intimate relations, and their intersections, the book develops a relational approach to everyday austerity. It reveals how austerity is a deeply personal and social condition, with impacts that spread across and between everyday relationships, spaces and temporal perspectives. It demonstrates how austerity is lived and felt on the ground, with distinctly uneven socio-economic consequences. Furthermore, everyday relationships are subject to change and continuity in times of austerity. Austerity also has lasting impacts on personal and shared experiences, both in terms of day-to-day practices and the lifecourses people imagine themselves living.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hall, Sarah Marie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Fragen & Probleme

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Family, Friendship and Intimacy: A Relational Approach to Everyday Austerity.- Chapter 3: Everyday Social Infrastructures and Tapestries of Care in Times of Austerity.- Chapter 4: Austere Intimacies and Intimate Austerities.- Chapter 5: The Personal is Political (and Relational).- Chapter 6: A Very Personal Crisis: Family Fragilities and Everyday Conjunctures in Austerity.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Sarah Marie Hall is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Manchester. Her research sits in the broad field of geographical feminist political economy: understanding how everyday socio-economic processes are shaped by gender relations, lived experience and social difference.