Care, Crisis and Activism

Eleanor Jupp is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Kent.

• Introduction: sticking plasters and cotton wool1. Care, austerity and the politics of everyday lives2. Citizenship and community in times of crisis3. Journeys into and through local activism under austerity4. Austerity politics and infrastructures of care: Children’s Centre closures and activism5. Small stories and political change: local activism across time and space6. Provisioning in times of crisis7. Conclusions: a politics of everyday life?

“Jupp skilfully connects micro-, meso- and macro-levels through her investigation of activists’ involvement in various forms of organising (not necessarily organisations) in a welfare state shaped by austerity. Her nuanced analysis addresses the affordances and ambivalences of community activism.” The Sociological Review