Ethnographies of Austerity - Temporality, crisis and affect in southern Europe (Paperback)

Some of the worst effects of the global economic downturn that commenced in 2008 have been felt in Europe, and specifically in the Eurozone's so-called PIIGS (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, and Spain) and Cyprus. This edited volume is the first collection to bring together ethnographies of living with austerity inside the Eurozone, and explore how people across Southern Europe have come to understand their experiences of increased social suffering, insecurity, and material poverty. The contributors focus on how crises stimulate temporal thought (temporality), whether tilted in the direction of historicizing, presentifying, futural thought, or some combination of these possibilities. One of the themes linking diverse crisis experiences across national boundaries is how people contemplate their present conditions and potential futures in terms of the past. The studies in this collection thus supply ethnographies that journey to the source of historical production by identifying the ways in which the past may be activated, lived, embodied, and refashioned under contracting economic horizons. In times of crisis modern linear historicism is often overridden (and overwritten) by other historicities showing that in crises not only time, but history itself as an organizing structure and set of expectations, is up for grabs and can be refashioned according to new rules. This book was originally published as a special issue of History and Anthropology.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2018
First published:	2017
Editors:	Charles Stewart • Daniel Knight
Dimensions:	246 x 174mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	156
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-07497-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Financial crises & disasters Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General
LSN:	0-367-07497-4
Barcode:	9780367074975

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