Politics of Recuperation

"I really like the ethnographic sensibility that the contributors bring to the material and the way the collection approaches socially embedded practices of repair and recuperation. Since the experience of living under difficult conditions is so widespread in the world today, the themes of recuperation and repair make this book useful for a broad range of scholars who are interested in how people manage their lives under constrained circumstances. At the same time, the grounded ethnographic approach makes the book essential reading for anyone working in the field of Portugal studies."

- Matt Rosen, Ohio University, USA

"This book opens a fascinating window into the meaning of personal and collective resilience in Europe today. The crisis came, it ravaged a whole generation, but did it stop it? No! The Portuguese response to externally enforced “austerity” is surely a prime illustration of the creative forces that lurk within Europe’s internal margins."

- João de Pina Cabral, University of Kent, UK

"These diverse accounts offer insightful ethnographies that describe how citizen inventiveness enabled the Portuguese to cope with the collapse of their social worlds. This is a book offering hope and resources for living in a world that seems to be heading towards a permanent state of crisis."

- Adolfo Estalella, Madrid Complutense University, Spain

"A timely book offering a richly detailed tapestry and in-depth exploration of the “resonant micropolitics” of crisis and its immediate aftermaths across Portugal. Its broad range of scholars open up anthropological vistas of recuperation and repair, thereby enlarging our understanding of the possibilities for regenerating togetherin today’s broken worlds."

~ Filip De Boeck, University of Leuven, Belgium