Poverty, crisis and resilience / edited by Marie Boost [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Boost, Marie, editor.

Series:

New horizons in social policy.

New horizons in social policy series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poverty--Europe.

Poverty.

Resilience (Personality trait).

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Chelteham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2020]

Summary:

"Poverty 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Part I: Introducing poverty, crisis and household resilience

1 Introduction: Poverty, resilience and the European crisis / 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 / Markus Promberger and Terhi Vuojala-Magga

3 the impact of the European crisis in vulnerable households in europe / Pedro Estêvão, Alexandre Calado and Luís Capucha

Part II: Perspectives on household resilience

4 developing the concept of poverty and resilience / Marie Boost, Markus Promberger, Lars Meier and Frank Sowa

5 critical perspectives on resilience / 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 / Hulya Dagdeviren and Matthew Donoghue

7 cultural aspects of resilience from the perspective of everyday practices of households affected by economic crisis / Monika Gnieciak and Kazimiera Wódz

8 turning points and critical moments in resilient European lives: A biographical longitudinal analysis / Jennifer Dagg and Jane Gray

9 gender regimes in vulnerable households during the recession - what has changed and what not? / Concepción Castrillo, Paz Martín, María Arnal and Aracelí Serrano

10 space and resilience - a scalar analysis of household resilience in Europe / E. Attila Aytekin and H. Tarık S̜engül

11 the paradoxes of resilience and social, political and community participation in Europe / Aracelí Serrano, Juan Carlos Revilla, Ma Paz Martín and Carlos de Castro

12 social economy and household resilience / Witold Mandrysz and Kazimiera Wódz

13 aesthetics, self-reliance and resilience / Aida Bosch and Markus Promberger

Part IV: Conclusions and implications

14 a typology of resilient households / Markus Promberger, Marie Boost and Janina Müller

15 strategies of resilience and the welfare state in southern Europe / Nelli Kambouri, Soula Marinoudi and Georgia Petraki

16 household resilience as an enhanced European policy discourse / Monica Tennberg and Joonas Vola

17 crisis and resilience in poor European households: Core findings and conclusions / Jennifer Dagg, Markus Promberger, Marie Boost and Jane Gray

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-78897-320-8