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Matos, P.  (2023). Distributed Agency: Care, human needs, and distributive struggles in Portugal. Critique of Anthropology. 44 (1), 82-96

P. R. Matos,  "Distributed Agency: Care, human needs, and distributive struggles in Portugal", in Critique of Anthropology, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 82-96, 2023

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	title = "Distributed Agency: Care, human needs, and distributive struggles in Portugal",
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	year = "2023",
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	number = "1",
	doi = "10.1177/0308275X231207732",
	pages = "82-96",
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TI  - Distributed Agency: Care, human needs, and distributive struggles in Portugal
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AB  - Austerity policies in Portugal unleashed a violent crisis of well-being and social reproduction
which intensified the ‘triple burden’ placed upon women, making them the
primary ‘shock absorbers’ of the crisis. This article addresses the critical role of working-class
women’s various forms of paid and unpaid care work in responding to the material
and immaterial needs of impoverished individuals and working-class households. It is
shown that women’s care-based responses and distributive struggles sought to minimise
the risks that the agency of those they cared for could be compromised in the present and
the future. Expanding feminist approaches and broader contributions decentring agency
from the ends of individual choice and freedom, the article argues that agency is a
distributed capacity and potentiality produced by, and productive of, embedded interdependent
caring practices, relationships and investments across space and time to
define, fulfil and negotiate the inescapable existence of fundamental needs.
ER  -