Minority Women and Austerity: Survival and Resistance in France and Britain
Leah Bassel and Akwugo Emejulu
Abstract
This book examines minority women’s experiences of and activism within the austerity regimes of France and Britain. Through in depth case studies of the particular dynamics of austerity and activism in Scotland, England and France, we explore how activists operate in this moment of political and economic uncertainty and practice a ‘politics of survival’ (Hill Collins 2000).
It explores how race, class, gender and legal status interact and shape both minority women’s grassroots anti-austerity activism in each country and what kinds of claims and political actors are recognised and legitimated b ... More
This book examines minority women’s experiences of and activism within the austerity regimes of France and Britain. Through in depth case studies of the particular dynamics of austerity and activism in Scotland, England and France, we explore how activists operate in this moment of political and economic uncertainty and practice a ‘politics of survival’ (Hill Collins 2000).
It explores how race, class, gender and legal status interact and shape both minority women’s grassroots anti-austerity activism in each country and what kinds of claims and political actors are recognised and legitimated by both policymakers and civil society allies. It is interested in who is audible and legitimate and how these hierarchies of knowledge and political credibility are reproduced or overthrown. Centering minority women’s articulations of both crisis and resistance is a way to subvert the dominant narrative of both ‘crisis’ and ‘activism’.
Keywords:
Minority women,
women of colour,
activism,
austerity,
economic crisis,
migrant women,
France,
Scotland,
England,
intersectionality
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2017 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781447327134 |
| Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: January 2018 |
DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781447327134.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Leah Bassel, author
University of Leicester
Akwugo Emejulu, author
University of Warwick
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