Cost of Living Crisis - Temporality, Provisioning, and Austerity in a Northern English City

The cost of living crisis is both new and not new. With a focus on how economic decline is temporally experienced, Wood explores how consumption habits; find solidarity with the past, claim membership in the present, and grasp at uncertain futures.

List of contents

Introduction 1. The Cost of Living Crisis 2. A Disavowal of Care 3. A Concept of Provisioning 4. Provisioning as a Reference to the Past 5. Provisioning as Participation in the Present 6. Provisioning as a Claim to the Future 7. Food Pantry as Otherwise. Epilogue

About the author

Natalie Wood is a postgraduate student in Social Anthropology. Her MA research, which she conducted at the University of Auckland, forms the basis of this monograph. She is currently an ESRC-funded PhD candidate at the University of Manchester, UK, where she is conducting research on hope, play and 'forgottenness' in Blackpool, UK.

Summary

The cost of living crisis is both new and not new. With a focus on how economic decline is temporally experienced, Wood explores how consumption habits; find solidarity with the past, claim membership in the present, and grasp at uncertain futures.

Product details

• Authors: Natalie Wood
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.01.2025
• EAN: 9781032865447
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3286544-7
• No. of pages: 146
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Sociology, Business & Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Consumer Behavior, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Labour / income economics, Labour Economics, Social and cultural anthropology, Phenomenology & Existentialism, economic forecasting, Phenomenology and Existentialism