- 256 pages
- English
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About this book
Through a range of ethnographic case studies focusing on the Portuguese recovery after the economic crisis, this book begins a conversation about the experience of recuperation and repair. Located in the cracks and gaps between the state and society, recuperation appears as a social and infrastructural answer linked to reciprocity, critical urbanity, generational interweaving, alternate ordering and reconnection of different bodies and histories. With chapters looking at public art in Lisbon and recuperative modes of action, this collection takes a thorough look at a society in crisis and shows how the people of the community create micro-politics of resistance. Ultimately, Politics of Recuperation reflects on the meaning of personal and collective resilience in Europe today, as well as on the limits and interstices of contemporary politics.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Figures and Table
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: The material culture of recuperation
- 1 Recuperative modes of action: Reciprocity, dependence and resistance to austerity policies in Rural Portugal
- 2 'Beautiful people eat ugly fruit': Ugliness and the cracks in the system
- 3 If buildings could talk: Makeshift urbanity on the outskirts of Lisbon
- 4 Geographies of public art and urban regeneration in Lisbon
- 5 The compost of recuperation: Fabricating social ties in the interstices
- 6 The place of recuperation: Limits and challenges of urban recovery in post-austerity Portugal
- 7 Secondary agents of recuperation within the Hindu community in Lisbon
- 8 Recuperation and vice versa in Portuguese folk art
- 9 Recuperative dances: Reconnecting through kizomba in a crisis context
- Conclusion: Repair as repopulating the devastated desert of our political and social imaginations
- Afterword: Micro-spaces of resilience and resistance - coping with the multiple crises in Portugal
- Index