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Austere social reproduction and the gendered geographies of debt

In: Debt and Austerity

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  • Sam Strong

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This chapter explores the changing relationship between debt, inequality and social reproduction in austerity Britain. By recounting the experiences of Cheryl, a single parent living in the Valleys of south Wales, this chapter argues that the gaps in provisioning created by austerity are at the same time being pursued as opportunities for the penetration of debt into everyday life. This double movement - of the increasing porosity of state-funded support alongside the heightened financialisation of reproductive labour - is theorised as austere social reproduction. This concept allows us to think about debt, social reproduction and austerity not as separate phenomenon, but as a nexus that is driven by, and further exacerbates, inequality.

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  • Sam Strong, 2020. "Austere social reproduction and the gendered geographies of debt," Chapters, in: Jodi Gardner & Mia Gray & Katharina Moser (ed.), Debt and Austerity, chapter 7, pages 151-173, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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