Title Care, crisis and activism : the politics of everyday life / Eleanor Jupp

Published Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2022 ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (v, 165 pages) : illustrations Contents Front Cover -- Care, Crisis and Activism: The Politics of Everyday Life -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: sticking plasters and cotton wool -- Approaching a politics of everyday life -- Methodological background: researching crises -- Introducing case studies and methods -- 1 Care, austerity and the politics of everyday lives -- Introduction -- Care and inequalities -- The state, gender and care -- Care, the welfare state and austerity -- Conclusion -- 2 Citizenship and community in times of crisis -- Introduction Community, local action and the welfare state: the third way -- Local action and austerity governance -- Rethinking citizenship and the politics of everyday life -- Vulnerability and storytelling -- Emotions, politics and activism -- Conclusion -- 3 Journeys into and through local activism under austerity -- Introduction -- Approaching women and community action -- "I want to start exploring my life": trauma and empowerment among migrant women activists -- "I always say the resident's association saved my life": neighbourhood action in Stoke-on-Trent -- Neighbourhood action under austerity "You automatically think, 'how would I cope with that?'" Empathy and solidarity in a community arts project -- Conclusion -- 4 Austerity politics and infrastructures of care: Children's Centre closures and activism -- Introduction -- Sure Start Children's Centres: policy discourses and the politics of care -- Researching the politics of closures -- Shifting rationalities of care -- Relational spaces of friendships -- Spaces of recognition and safety -- Conclusion -- 5 Small stories and political change: local activism across time and space -- Introduction Approaching the politics of storytelling -- Children's Centre activism: background -- Representing care within the spaces of Children's Centre activism -- Storytelling in meetings -- Storytelling beyond the local -- Evaluating stories in court -- Conclusion -- 6 Provisioning in times of crisis -- Introduction -- Home space and atmospheres of crisis -- New infrastructures of local care? -- The everyday practices and caring labour of mutual aid -- Conclusion -- Conclusions: a politics of everyday life? -- Towards a politics of everyday life Reflecting on methods: listening to the voice of local activists -- Local activism and a politics of care: routes to citizenship and empowerment? -- Community and the atmospheres and spaces of local action -- Local action, the place of the state and infrastructures of care -- Appendix: overview of research projects -- References -- Index -- Back Cover Summary What kinds of care are being offered or withdrawn by the welfare state? What does this mean for the caring practices and interventions of local activists? Shedding new light on austerity and neoliberal welfare reform in the UK, this vital book considers local action and activism within contexts of crisis, including the COVID-19 pandemic Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 07, 2022) Subject Social movements -- Great Britain Public welfare -- Great Britain -- Citizen participation Medical care -- Political aspects -- Great Britain Political participation -- Great Britain POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy. Social movements Social conditions Public welfare -- Citizen participation Political participation Medical care -- Political aspects SUBJECT Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056945 Subject Great Britain Form Electronic book ISBN 9781447353041 1447353048 9781447353034 144735303X

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