Authors:
- Provides timely discussion on the affects of austerity politics on family life
- Explores the social and personal impacts of the economic downturn
- Draws upon two years of in-depth ethnographic research with six families in Manchester
Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life (PSFL)
Buy it now
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check for access.
Table of contents (7 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
Back Matter
About this book
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.
Reviews
“This book challenges the way we think about austerity. Drawing on rich ethnographic research with families and communities and innovative ways of theorising everyday life, Sarah Marie Hall exposes austerity as a personal and relational condition. The chapters provoke emotions of both despair at the fraying tapestry of care, but also hope through stories of quiet politics: creative spaces of togetherness and solidarity. This is an important and timely book that will appeal to readers across disciplinary boundaries.” (Gill Valentine, Professor of Geography and Pro-Vice-Chancellor, University of Sheffield)
Authors and Affiliations
-
University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Sarah Marie Hall
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Everyday Life in Austerity
Book Subtitle: Family, Friends and Intimate Relations
Authors: Sarah Marie Hall
Series Title: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17094-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17093-6Published: 02 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17096-7Published: 02 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-17094-3Published: 24 August 2019
Series ISSN: 2731-6440
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6459
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 231
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Family, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Human Geography