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Critical perspectives on resilience
(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020-12-08)
This chapter aims to contribute to the critical discussion of the concept of resilience and its pertinence and usefulness to contexts of socioeconomic hardship. Starting from an approach that contrasts the poverty studies ...
Socio-economic practices of households coping with hardship
(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020-12-08)
Top-down responses to major shocks have been of major interest to social scientists and they contributed to our understanding of restructuring, transformation and development. Research into socio-economic practices of ...
Structural Foundations of Social Resilience
(2020-10-01)
This article aims to contribute to the theoretical development of the social resilience approach. Recognising the interface between resilience and poverty studies, it proposes a distinct role for resilience research from ...
Financialisation, Welfare Retrenchment and Subsistence Debt in Britain
(2020-02-04)
This paper investigates the dynamics of low income household (LIH) indebtedness under austerity in Britain. Building on a range of political economy studies on the role of the state in the process of financialisation, the ...