1st Edition
The Cost of Living Crisis Temporality, Provisioning, and Austerity in a Northern English City
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
Biography
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.
"Presenting ethnographic research from the North of England, Natalie Wood provides a sophisticated perspective on everyday challenges of the cost of living crisis. Combining emerging concepts of Provisioning and Temporal Proximity with established theories on consumption and austerity politics, Wood delicately captures the intricacies of a crisis event as it unfolds. Cutting across generational concerns for the future of the UK, this highly readable book will be of interest to scholars of economic and political anthropology, time and temporality, the anthropology of Britain, and urban studies".
Daniel Knight, University of St. Andrews
