Everyday Life in Austerity: Family, Friends and Intimate Relations

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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-x Introduction (Sarah Marie Hall)....Pages 1-28 Family, Friendship and Intimacy: A Relational Approach to Everyday Austerity (Sarah Marie Hall)....Pages 29-68 Everyday Social Infrastructures and Tapestries of Care in Times of Austerity (Sarah Marie Hall)....Pages 69-100 Austere Intimacies and Intimate Austerities (Sarah Marie Hall)....Pages 101-139 The Personal Is Political (and Relational) (Sarah Marie Hall)....Pages 141-167 A Very Personal Crisis: Family Fragilities and Everyday Conjunctures in Austerity (Sarah Marie Hall)....Pages 169-195 Conclusion (Sarah Marie Hall)....Pages 197-208 Back Matter ....Pages 209-231