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Bodies of and against austerity: gendered dispossession, agency and struggles for worth in Portugal

Alves de Matos, Patrícia·2021·Social Anthropology
DOI 10.1111/1469-8676.13107
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This article explores the relationships between the body, gendered dispossession and agency under conditions of austerity in Portugal. Drawing from ethnographic research undertaken in 2015 and 2016 in a Portuguese post-industrial town, this article focuses on the examination of how concrete physical experiences and social anxieties framed working-class women’s experiences and explanations of the austerity-led crisis of social reproduction and the ways through which the body was mobilised as a metaphor to make sense of forced and disruptive reconfigurations of the means of livelihood reproduction. It examines how working-class women resorted to embodied practices, knowledges and moralities as a way of fulfilling provisioning pursuits, and to assert rights, entitlements and aspirations. Throughout this article, women’s bodily experiences and embodied practices, knowledges and moralities are the main point of entry from which to reflect on the gendered, contested and negotiated nature of the austerity economic and political project. This article argues for the relevance of addressing the mobilisation of historically embodied legacies of gendered and classed dispossession in the making of ‘actually existing austerity’.

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Authors
Alves de Matos, P.
Affiliations
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (CRIA) Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE‐IUL) Lisbon Portugal
ORCID
Alves de Matos, Patrícia
Venue
Social Anthropology
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Published
2021-11
Volume
29
Issue
4
Pages
992-1007
ISSN
  • 0964-0282 (ISSN-L)
  • 1469-8676
DOI
10.1111/1469-8676.13107
OpenAlex
W3216025864
Cited by
1
References
39
Citations by year
2025: 1
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0.00
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
Locations
Social Anthropology (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Industrial relations › Employment, Labor, and Gender Studies
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender and Feminist Studies
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Gender, Health, and Social Inequality
Keywords
austerity, working-class women, embodiment, agency, social reproduction, livelihoods, post-industrial towns, morality, embodied practice, gender and class, Portugal, economic crisis

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