Grassroots Economies (eBook)

1. Introduction: Grassroots economies in southern Europe and beyond - Susana Narotzky (University of Barcelona, Spain)

Part I: Making a Living

2. Bondage unemployment and intra-class tensions in Greek energy restructuring - Theodora Vetta (University of Barcelona)

3. Work, wage and subsidy: Making a living between regulation and informalization - Antonio Maria Pusceddu (Centre for Anthropological Research (CRIA), ISCTE — Lisbon University Institute)

4. Criminalizing the means of livelihood: “Illegal vegetables” and the return to the home - Carmen Leidereiter (Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, Netherlands)

5. Austerity, social values and value: The social economy and entrepreneurship in Catalonia - Patricia Homs (University of Barcelona, Spain)

Part II: Social Reproduction

6. Austerity welfare and the moral significance of needs in Portugal - Patricia Matos (Centre for Anthropological Research (CRIA), ISCTE - Lisbon University Institute)

7. Family, housing as an asset, and the production of welfare - Jaime Palomera (Institute of Government and Public Policy - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

8. Social reproduction in times of crisis: Tensions between generations in Southern Europe - Susana Narotzky (University of Barcelona, Spain) and Antonio Maria Pusceddu (Centre for Anthropological Research (CRIA), ISCTE — Lisbon University Institute)

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 (University of Barcelona, Spain)

10. The body politics of austerity in Portugal and Spain: Women, dispossession and agency - Diana Sarkis and Patricia Matos (Centre for Anthropological Research (CRIA), ISCTE - Lisbon University Institute)

11. Austerity from below: Class, temporality and scale in grassroots explanations of crisis - Diana Sarkis Fernandez (University of Barcelona, Spain) and Stamatis Amarianakis (University of Barcelona, Spain)