Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life: Family, Friends and Intimate Relations

Hall, Sarah Marie

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2020-09-02

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9783030170967

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-17094-3

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 231