Austerity Across Europe

Sarah Marie Hall is based in the Department of Geography at the University of Manchester, UK. Her research sits in the broad field of feminist political economy: understanding how socio-economic processes are shaped by gender relations, lived experience and social difference. Recent research projects focus on everyday life and economic change, including empirical work in the context of austerity, Brexit and devolution. She is currently Co-Editor of the international academic journal Area. Helena Pimlott-Wilson is based in Geography and Environment at Loughborough University, UK. Her research focuses on the shifting importance of education and employment in the reproduction of classed power. Recent work investigates the aspirations of young people from socio-economically diverse areas in the UK, international mobility of students for higher education and work placements, and the alternative and supplementary education industries. John Horton is based in the Faculty of Education and Humanities at the University of Northampton, UK. His research explores the spaces, cultures, politics, playful practices and social-material exclusions of contemporary childhood and youth in diverse international contexts. He is currently Editor of the international academic journals Social & Cultural Geography and Children’s Geographies.

1. Introduction: austerity across Europe: lived experiences of economic crises Part I: Intergenerational relations and exchanges 2. Eating out, sharing food and social exclusion: young people in low-income families in the UK and Norway 3. 'I feel like it's just going to get worse': young people, marginality and neoliberal personhoods in austere times 4. Austerity, youth and the city: experiences of austerity and place by disadvantaged urban youth in Ireland 5. Children and families coping with austerity in Catalonia Part II: Ways of coping through crises 6. An informal welfare? Urban resilience and spontaneous solidarity in Naples, Italy, after the Great Recession 7. Austerity and men’s hidden family participation in low-income families in the UK 8. Austerity, economic crisis and children: the case of Cyprus 9. Beyond coping: families and young people’s journeys through austerity, relational poverty and stigma 10. Escaping from capitalism: the enactment of alternative lifeworlds in France’s mountain regions Part III: Community, civic and state infrastructures 11. E-government and digital by default: normalising austerity as the new norm 12. Requesting labour activation without addressing inequalities: a move towards racialised workfare in Slovakia 13. How to keep control? Everyday practices of governing urban marginality in a time of massive outmigration in Hungary 14. Care, austerity and citizenship: story-telling as protest in anti-austerity activism in the UK