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Book SynopsisPoverty remains a problem in Europe, raising the need for new solutions. In this thought-provoking book the contributors delve deeply into the everyday lives of poor households to see which practices and resources they apply to improve their situations. One of the key findings is that social resilience requires a functioning welfare state operating as a warrantor of common and public goods, on which poor households can build up resilient practices.
This insightful book illustrates that in addition to sufficient welfare transfers, there is a need for low-commodified common goods, including public health services, access to housing, education infrastructures and public space. These need to be made available not only for the registered poor but all low-income households. Drawing on over 400 interviews with families and experts across Europe, the chapters demonstrate the need for social policy to become more tolerant towards various forms of small additional income generation and non-commodified values and lifestyles.
Poverty, Crisis and Resilience will be a key resource for students and scholars of social policy, poverty research and sociology, while also being of value to social policy practitioners within the charity sector, welfare state administration, social work, politics and counselling.
Trade Review'The aftermath of the 2008 crisis left many communities across Europe facing serious problems, with the capacity of households to endure hardships pushed to the limit. In this exceptional volume the editors have brought together and distilled the multi-disciplinary and cross-country work of over thirty researchers to reveal a multiplicity of household strategies for survival, often drawn from past practices. In doing so they have, through careful questioning and analysis, reclaimed the once tainted notion of "resilience". Freed from all heroic connotations and seen to reside within the historically received structures of daily life, here "resilient households" are placed within their civil society where "self help" sits alongside mutual aid, public provision and charitable giving. It is all suggestive of an approach that can illuminate and direct public policy toward creating a better life for people in deprived areas now and in the post COVID future.' -- Huw Beynon, Cardiff University, UK
'This is a thoughtful and thought-provoking contribution to ways of thinking about poverty, based on new research by multi-disciplinary teams in nine countries and putting the concept of resilience centre stage. The comparative approach is sensitive to institutional, structural, and local contexts, and the interview, biographical, and photographic data are vivid and compelling. Resilience is a contested concept, not without critics, but the authors make a strong case for understanding processes of resilience in adversity and everyday lives. Highly recommended.' -- Jane Millar, University of Bath, UK
'This timely collection of reflections about resilience practices, and the social, cultural and economic resources mobilised by households to cope with poverty, offers a fresh and innovative perspective concerning the tricky EU metaconcept of resilience. Poverty, Crisis and Resilience
provides a transdisciplinary and cross cultural contribution to the literature on poverty and resilience. It is essential and fascinating reading for anyone interested in a sociological approach to resilience.' -- Amparo Serrano-Pascual, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Table of ContentsContents: PART I INTRODUCING POVERTY, CRISIS AND HOUSEHOLD RESILIENCE 1 Introduction: poverty, resilience and the European crisis 2 Markus Promberger, Marie Boost, Jennifer Dagg and Jane Gray 2 Household economy as cultural and social practice: towards a framework for investigating poverty and resilience 19 Markus Promberger and Terhi Vuojala-Magga 3 The impact of the European crisis in vulnerable households in Europe 38 Pedro Estêvão, Alexandre Calado and Luís Capucha PART II PERSPECTIVES ON HOUSEHOLD RESILIENCE 4 Developing the concept of poverty and resilience 59 Marie Boost, Markus Promberger, Lars Meier and Frank Sowa 5 Critical perspectives on resilience 74 Alexandre Calado, Luís Capucha, Hulya Dagdeviren, Matthew Donoghue and Pedro Estêvão PART III DIMENSIONS OF HOUSEHOLD RESILIENCE 6 Socio-economic practices of households coping with hardship 89 Hulya Dagdeviren and Matthew Donoghue 7 Cultural aspects of resilience from the perspective of everyday practices of households affected by economic crisis 107 Monika Gnieciak and Kazimiera Wódz 8 Turning points and critical moments in resilient European lives: a biographical longitudinal analysis 126 Jennifer Dagg and Jane Gray 9 Gender regimes in vulnerable households during the recession – what has changed and what not? 145 Concepción Castrillo, Paz Martín, María Arnal and Aracelí Serrano 10 Space and resilience – a scalar analysis of household resilience in Europe 163 E. Attila Aytekin and H. Tarık Şengül 11 The paradoxes of resilience and social, political and community participation in Europe 181 Aracelí Serrano, Juan Carlos Revilla, Mª Paz Martín and Carlos de Castro 12 Social economy and household resilience 199 Witold Mandrysz and Kazimiera Wódz 13 Aesthetics, self-reliance and resilience 221 Aida Bosch and Markus Promberger PART IV CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS 14 A typology of resilient households 234 Markus Promberger, Marie Boost and Janina Müller 15 Strategies of resilience and the welfare state in Southern Europe 264 Nelli Kambouri, Soula Marinoudi and Georgia Petraki 16 Household resilience as an enhanced European policy discourse 282 Monica Tennberg and Joonas Vola 17 Crisis and resilience in poor European households: core findings and conclusions 302 Jennifer Dagg, Markus Promberger, Marie Boost and Jane Gray Index
