Grassroots Economies

Susana Narotzky is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Barcelona, Spain, and past President of the European Association of Social Anthropologists.

• List of Abbreviations Series Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Grassroots Economics in Europe - Susana NarotzkyPART I: MAKING A LIVING2. Bondage Unemployment and Intra-class Tensions in Greek Energy Restructuring - Theodora Vetta3. Work, Wage and Subsidy: Making a Living Between Regulation and Informalization - Antonio Maria Pusceddu4. Criminalizing Livelihoods: “Illegal Vegetables” and the Return to the Home - Carmen Leidereiter5. Austerity, Social Values and Value: The Social Economy and Entrepreneurship in Catalonia - Patricia HomsPART II: SOCIAL REPRODUCTION6. Austerity Welfare and the Moral Significance of Needs in Portugal - Patrícia Matos7. Family, Housing as an Asset, and the Production of Welfare - Jaime Palomera8. Social Reproduction in Times of Crisis: Inter-Generational Tensions in Southern Europe - Susana Narotzky and Antonio Maria PuscedduPART III: EXPERIENCING AND EMBODYING AUSTERITY9. The Entrepreneur’s Other: Small Entrepreneurial Identity and the Collapse of Life Structures in the “Third Italy” - Giacomo Loperfido10. The Body Politics of Austerity in Portugal and Spain: Women, Dispossession and Agency - Diana Sarkis and Patricia Matos11. Austerity from Below: Class, Temporality and Scale in Grassroots Analyses of Crisis - Diana Sarkis and Stamatis AmarianakisNotes on Contributors Index

'Grassroots Economies offers an astute and heart-breaking account of the toll decades of austerity politics have taken on southern Europe. Each chapter offers remarkable insights - taken together they present a sober and illuminating portrait of dispossession and loss.'