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Grassroots Economies

Anthropology, Culture and Society

Series Editors:
Jamie Cross, University of Edinburgh, Christina Garsten, Stockholm University and
Joshua O. Reno, Binghamton University

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Grassroots Economies

Living with Austerity in Southern Europe

Edited by Susana Narotzky

First published 2020 by Pluto Press

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Copyright Susana Narotzky 2020

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Contents

Abbreviations

ASEP (Supreme Council for Civil Personnel Selection)

COBAS (Confederazione dei Comitati di Base)

DEI (Public Power Corporation)

EEC (European Economic Community)

ECB (European Central Bank)

PCP (Portuguese Communist Party)

RETA (Rgimen Especial de Trabajadores Autnomos)

RIPESS (Intercontinental Network for the Promotion of Social Solidarity Economy)

TAIPED (Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund)

XES (Solidarity Economy Network of Catalonia)

Series Preface

As people around the world confront the inequality and injustice of new forms of oppression, as well as the impacts of human life on planetary ecosystems, this book series asks what anthropology can contribute to the crises and challenges of the twenty-first century. Our goal is to establish a distinctive anthropological contribution to debates and discussions that are often dominated by politics and economics. What is sorely lacking, and what anthropological methods can provide, is an appreciation of the human condition.

We publish works that draw inspiration from traditions of ethnographic research and anthropological analysis to address power and social change while keeping the struggles and stories of human beings center stage. We welcome books that set out to make anthropology matter, bringing classic anthropological concerns with exchange, difference, belief, kinship and the material world into engagement with contemporary environmental change, capitalist economies and forms of inequality. We publish work from all traditions of anthropology, combining theoretical debate with empirical evidence to demonstrate the unique contribution anthropology can make to understanding the contemporary world.

Jamie Cross, Christina Garsten and Joshua O. Reno

Acknowledgements

All the participants in this volume were part of the European Research Council Advanced Grant project Grassroots Economics: Meaning, Project and Practice in the Pursuit of Livelihood (GRECO). The generous support of this grant enabled us to undertake a yearlong fieldwork as well as to spend some three years analyzing, debating and contrasting our findings with each other and with many colleagues. These multiple encounters at workshops and conferences helped us develop our ideas during this period and we thank them all for their insights. Naming all those whose help went into producing this volume is impossible as the list is extremely long. A generous ICREA Acadmia Award from the Generalitat de Catalunya provided Susana Narotzky much needed research time for which she is extremely thankful.

Our extended fieldwork could not have been conducted without the generosity of the people who opened their homes, minds and hearts to us, and shared with us their everyday lives and their analyses of why and how things had changed in recent years. We owe to them more than we can ever express in words, but we still want to record here our incommensurable gratitude.

Some colleagues have been involved in a continuous way with our intellectual endeavor and to them we owe a tremendous debt of gratitude. First and foremost are the members of our scientific board of advisors, who followed our project closely over five years: Dina Vaiou, Antnia Lima, Enzo Mingione and Josep-Antoni Ybarra, we couldnt have done it without your help and support! We extend our thanks also to Simone Ghezzi, who became an informal member of the board.

We are thankful to the colleagues who accepted our invitation to participate in the theoretical workshops that launched our project: Florence Weber, Agns Tricoche, Susana Matos Viegas, Frances Pine, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Isabelle Gurin, Tania Murray Li, Jane Collins and Sharryn Kasmir. We owe a special thanks to Niko Besnier and Anita Hardon who invited us to co-organize teaching workshops at the University of Amsterdam early on in the project. Thanks are due to Chris Gregory and Karen Sykes for their Moral Economy workshop at the University of Manchester, which was a milestone; to Chris Hann and Don Kalb for the many instances in which they have invited us to share our ideas with their teams at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle and at Utrecht University, and Bergen University; and to Deborah James at the London School of Economics for also including us in various workshops on debt and advice.

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