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Matos, P. A. de. (2021). Bodies of and against austerity: Gendered dispossession, agency and struggles for worth in Portugal. Social Anthropology. 29 (4), 992-1007
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P. R. Matos,  "Bodies of and against austerity: Gendered dispossession, agency and struggles for worth in Portugal", in Social Anthropology, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 992-1007, 2021
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@article{matos2021_1766366469100,
	author = "Matos, P. A. de.",
	title = "Bodies of and against austerity: Gendered dispossession, agency and struggles for worth in Portugal",
	journal = "Social Anthropology",
	year = "2021",
	volume = "29",
	number = "4",
	doi = "10.1111/1469-8676.13107",
	pages = "992-1007",
	url = "https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14698676"
}
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TY  - JOUR
TI  - Bodies of and against austerity: Gendered dispossession, agency and struggles for worth in Portugal
T2  - Social Anthropology
VL  - 29
IS  - 4
AU  - Matos, P. A. de.
PY  - 2021
SP  - 992-1007
SN  - 0964-0282
DO  - 10.1111/1469-8676.13107
UR  - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14698676
AB  - This  article  explores  the  relationships  between  the  body,  gendered  dispossession  and  agency  under  conditions of austerity in Portugal. Drawing from ethnographic research undertaken in 2015 and 2016 in a Portuguese post‐ industrial town, this article focuses on the examination of how concrete physical experiences  and  social  anxieties  framed  working‐  class  women’s  experiences  and  explanations  of  the  austerity‐ led crisis of social reproduction and the ways through which the body was mobilised as a metaphor to make sense of forced and disruptive reconfigurations of the means of livelihood reproduction. It examines how working‐ class women resorted to embodied practices, knowledges and moralities as a way of fulfilling provisioning pursuits, and to assert rights, entitlements and aspirations. Throughout this  article,  women’s  bodily  experiences  and  embodied  practices, knowledges  and  moralities  are  the  main  point  of  entry  from  which  to  reflect  on  the  gendered,  contested  and  negotiated  nature  of  the  austerity economic and political project. This article argues for the relevance of addressing the mobilisation of historically embodied legacies of gendered and classed dispossession in the making of ‘actually existing austerity’.
ER  -