Everyday Life in Austerity Family, Friends and Intimate Relations /

• Main Author: Hall, Sarah Marie (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
• Subjects: Social groups.; Family.; Families.; Families-Social aspects.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Human geography.; Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.; Human Geography.

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 ev...

Table of Contents:

• 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.