Grassroots Economies

Description

The austerity crisis has radically altered the economic landscape of Southern Europe. But alongside the decimation of public services and infrastructure lies the wreckage of a generation’s visions for the future. In Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal, there is a new, difficult reality of downward mobility.

Grassroots Economies interrogates the effects of the economic crisis on the livelihood of working people, providing insight into their anxieties. Drawing on a wide range of ethnographic material, it is a distinctive comparative analysis that explores the contradictions of their coping mechanisms and support structures.

With a focus on gender, the book explores values and ideologies, including dispossession and accumulation. Ultimately it demonstrates that everyday interactions on the local scale provide a significant sense of the global.

List of Abbreviations

Series Preface

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction: Grassroots Economics in Europe - Susana Narotzky

PART I: MAKING A LIVING

2. Bondage Unemployment and Intra-class Tensions in Greek Energy Restructuring - Theodora Vetta

3. Work, Wage and Subsidy: Making a Living Between Regulation and Informalization - Antonio Maria Pusceddu

4. Criminalizing Livelihoods: “Illegal Vegetables” and the Return to the Home - Carmen Leidereiter

5. Austerity, Social Values and Value: The Social Economy and Entrepreneurship in Catalonia - Patricia Homs

PART II: SOCIAL REPRODUCTION

6. Austerity Welfare and the Moral Significance of Needs in Portugal - Patrícia Matos

7. Family, Housing as an Asset, and the Production of Welfare - Jaime Palomera

8. Social Reproduction in Times of Crisis: Inter-Generational Tensions in Southern Europe - Susana Narotzky and Antonio Maria Pusceddu

PART III: EXPERIENCING AND EMBODYING AUSTERITY

9. The Entrepreneur’s Other: Small Entrepreneurial Identity and the Collapse of Life Structures in the “Third Italy” - Giacomo Loperfido

10. The Body Politics of Austerity in Portugal and Spain: Women, Dispossession and Agency - Diana Sarkis and Patricia Matos

11. Austerity from Below: Class, Temporality and Scale in Grassroots Analyses of Crisis - Diana Sarkis and Stamatis Amarianakis

Notes on Contributors

Index

Sujets

• Economic Policy
• Public Policy
• Human Geography
• Social Science
• POLITICAL SCIENCE
• Sociologie, société et politique
• Sociology
• Political geography
• Southern Europe
• Political economy
• Anthropology

Informations

• Publié par: Pluto Press
• Date de parution: 20 octobre 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781786805782
• Langue: English

Extrait

Grassroots Economies
Anthropology, Culture and Society
Series Editors: Jamie Cross, University of Edinburgh, Christina Garsten, Stockholm University and Joshua O. Reno, Binghamton University
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Grassroots Economies
Living with Austerity in Southern Europe
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Contents
List of Abbreviations
Series Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Grassroots Economics in Europe
Susana Narotzky
PART I: MAKING A LIVING
2. Bondage Unemployment and Intra-class Tensions in Greek Energy Restructuring
Theodora Vetta
3. Work, Wage and Subsidy: Making a Living Between Regulation and Informalization
Antonio Maria Pusceddu
4. Criminalizing Livelihoods: Illegal Vegetables and the Return to the Home
Carmen Leidereiter
5. Austerity, Social Values and Value: The Social Economy and Entrepreneurship in Catalonia
Patricia Homs
PART II: SOCIAL REPRODUCTION
6. Austerity Welfare and the Moral Significance of Needs in Portugal
Patr cia Matos
7. Family, Housing as an Asset, and the Production of Welfare
Jaime Palomera
8. Social Reproduction in Times of Crisis: Inter-Generational Tensions in Southern Europe
Susana Narotzky and Antonio Maria Pusceddu
PART III: EXPERIENCING AND EMBODYING AUSTERITY
9. The Entrepreneur s Other: Small Entrepreneurial Identity and the Collapse of Life Structures in the Third Italy
Giacomo Loperfido
10. The Body Politics of Austerity in Portugal and Spain: Women, Dispossession and Agency
Diana Sarkis and Patricia Matos
11. Austerity from Below: Class, Temporality and Scale in Grassroots Analyses of Crisis
Diana Sarkis and Stamatis Amarianakis
Notes on Contributors
Index
Abbreviations
ASEP (Supreme Council for Civil Personnel Selection)
COBAS (Confederazione dei Comitati di Base)
DEI (Public Power Corporation)
EEC (European Economic Community)
ECB (European Central Bank)
PCP (Portuguese Communist Party)
RETA (R gimen Especial de Trabajadores Aut nomos)
RIPESS (Intercontinental Network for the Promotion of Social Solidarity Economy)
TAIPED (Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund)
XES (Solidarity Economy Network of Catalonia)
Series Preface
As people around the world confront the inequality and injustice of new forms of oppression, as well as the impacts of human life on planetary ecosystems, this book series asks what anthropology can contribute to the crises and challenges of the twenty-first century. Our goal is to establish a distinctive anthropological contribution to debates and discussions that are often dominated by politics and economics. What is sorely lacking, and what anthropological methods can provide, is an appreciation of the human condition.
We publish works that draw inspiration from traditions of ethnographic research and anthropological analysis to address power and social change while keeping the struggles and stories of human beings center stage. We welcome books that set out to make anthropology matter, bringing classic anthropological concerns with exchange, difference, belief, kinship and the material world into engagement with contemporary environmental change, capitalist economies and forms of inequality. We publish work from all traditions of anthropology, combining theoretical debate with empirical evidence to demonstrate the unique contribution anthropology can make to understanding the contemporary world.
Jamie Cross, Christina Garsten and Joshua O. Reno
Acknowledgements
All the participants in this volume were part of the European Research Council Advanced Grant project Grassroots Economics: Meaning, Project and Practice in the Pursuit of Livelihood (GRECO). The generous support of this grant enabled us to undertake a yearlong fieldwork as well as to spend some three years analyzing, debating and contrasting our findings with each other and with many colleagues. These multiple encounters at workshops and conferences helped us develop our ideas during this period and we thank them all for their insights. Naming all those whose help went into producing this volume is impossible as the list is extremely long. A generous ICREA Acad mia Award from the Generalitat de Catalunya provided Susana Narotzky much needed research time for which she is extremely thankful.
Our extended fieldwork could not have been conducted without the generosity of the people who opened their homes, minds and hearts to us, and shared with us their everyday lives and their analyses of why and how things had changed in recent years. We owe to them more than we can ever express in words, but we still want to record here our incommensurable gratitude.
Some colleagues have been involved in a continuous way with our intellectual endeavor and to them we owe a tremendous debt of gratitude. First and foremost are the members of our scientific board of advisors, who followed our project closely over five years: Dina Vaiou, Ant nia Lima, Enzo Mingione and Josep-Antoni Ybarra, we couldn t have done it without your help and support! We extend our thanks also to Simone Ghezzi, who became an informal member of the board.
We are thankful to the colleagues who accepted our invitation to participate in the theoretical workshops that launched our project: Florence Weber, Agn s Tricoche, Susana Matos Viegas, Frances Pine, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Isabelle Gu rin, Tania Murray Li, Jane Collins and Sharryn Kasmir. We owe a special thanks to Niko Besnier and Anita Hardon who invited us to co-organize teaching workshops at the University of Amsterdam early on in the project. Thanks are due to Chris Gregory and Karen Sykes for their Moral Economy workshop at the University of Manchester, which was a milestone; to Chris Hann and Don Kalb for the many instances in which they have invited us to share our ideas with their teams at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle and at Utrecht University, and Bergen University; and to Deborah James at the London School of Economics for also including us in various workshops on debt and advice.
Our gratitude also goes to the co-organizers of the Ten Years of Crisis conference in Lisbon, Ana Lu sa Micaelo, Ant nia Lima and Jo o de Pina Cabral, as well as to all the participants who traveled sometimes great distances, and provided so much intellectual excitement, in particular we thank Dimitrios Theodossopoulos, Lourdes Bener a, Federico Neiburg, Anna Perrin-Heredia, Evthymios Papataxarchis, Jane Collins, Frances Pine, Abel Polese and S lvia Bofill who acted as discussants. Likewise we are grateful to all those that participated in the final Grassroots Economics conference at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in O ati, Gipuzkoa, and in particular to Vincenzo Ferrari who kindly offered the venue and Malen Gordoa Mendiz bal who made it happen with her perfect organization and the help of Carles Ba os. We want to particularly thank those that took on the commitment to act as discussants: Diane Elson, Costis Hadjimichalis, Enrica Morlicchio, Jaume Franquesa, Enzo Mingione, Victoria Goddard, Jeff Maskovsky, Sharryn Kasmir, Cris Shore, Deborah James, Ant nia Lima, Gustav Peebles and Devi Sacchetto.
We also thank some friends and colleagues that have been very present along the way, in no particular order: Aliki Angelidou, Dimitra Kofti, Theo Rakopoulos, Phaedra Douzina-Bakal