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Throughout the book, I have shown austerity to be lived and felt on the ground, though with distinctly uneven socio-economic consequences. This is particularly the case for gendered labour, care and responsibilities. I have also identified how everyday relationships are subject to change and continuity in times of austerity. Some of these might be galvanised by conviviality and togetherness, others tainted by arguments and awkwardness, which in turn shape how people respond to austerity. Austerity has been shown to have lasting impacts on personal and shared experiences, both in terms of day-to-day practices and the lives people imagine themselves living. With this chapter, I offer an overview of my contributions, and present suggestions for further work on everyday austerity, with a plea for conceptually informed, empirically grounded, detailed and ethically sensitive research on austerity and crisis to continue.
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Hall, S.M. (2019). Conclusion. In: Everyday Life in Austerity. Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17094-3_7
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