Long description:

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.

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 book?s key findings is that social resilience requires a functioning welfare state operating at an increased level. In addition to sufficient welfare transfers, there is a need for low-commodified common goods to be made available not only for the registered poor but all low-income households.

'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.'

Table of Contents:

Contents:

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 Est?v?o, 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 Est?v?o

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. Tar?k Şengu?l
11 The paradoxes of resilience and social, political and
community participation in Europe 181
Aracelí Serrano, Juan Carlos Revilla, M? 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 Mu?ller
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