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Pusceddu, A. M. & Matos, P.  (2022). On the common sense of social reproduction: Social assistance and ideologies of care in austerity Europe. Dialectical Anthropology. 46 (4), 477-496

A. M. Pusceddu and P. R. Matos,  "On the common sense of social reproduction: Social assistance and ideologies of care in austerity Europe", in Dialectical Anthropology, vol. 46, no. 4, pp. 477-496, 2022

@article{pusceddu2022_1720120502752,
	author = "Pusceddu, A. M. and Matos, P. ",
	title = "On the common sense of social reproduction: Social assistance and ideologies of care in austerity Europe",
	journal = "Dialectical Anthropology",
	year = "2022",
	volume = "46",
	number = "4",
	doi = "10.1007/s10624-022-09668-3",
	pages = "477-496",
	url = "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10624-022-09668-3"
}

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TI  - On the common sense of social reproduction: Social assistance and ideologies of care in austerity Europe
T2  - Dialectical Anthropology
VL  - 46
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AU  - Pusceddu, A. M.
AU  - Matos, P. 
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AB  - In this article, we examine the mobilization, justification and enactment of ideologies of
care and social reproduction in the field of religious charity-based social assistance in
Italy and Portugal under austerity. Our framework combines the feminist critique of the
naturalization of gendered inequalities with Gramsci's notion of common sense.
Drawing on ethnographic research in two mid-size cities in Italy (Brindisi) and Portugal
(Setúbal), we address, in a comparative perspective, changes in the model of welfare
redistribution enhanced by the implementation of austerity policies. We aim to
illuminate how the gendered domestic sphere and the expansion of religious charities
under austerity are tight together through ideologies of care and social reproduction,
becoming operative in the concrete management of welfare redistribution and integral
to the implementation and legitimation of emerging austerity welfare regimes. Focusing
on the everyday and mundane tasks of charity work, we show the existence of a
relational continuum between the gendered domestic sphere and charity voluntary
work. We provide evidence of how naturalized visions and patterns of care inherent in
family ideologies are transferred into the sphere of social assistance, hence recast as
moral and practical regulatory principles of welfare distribution. Finally, we show how
the common sense of social reproduction ultimately becomes instrumental in the
regressive naturalization of poverty at the core of the exclusionary and discriminatory
patterns of welfare distribution.
ER  -