How are austerity and depression entangled with one another? Mental health is declining
across children, young people and adults in the UK. Despite the urgent need to address the …

The enforced poverty of austere capitalism continues to wreck the worlds we inhabit. These
worlds are built with a variety of social infrastructures: houses, pipes, schools, parks, libraries…

Loneliness is often described as a deadly epidemic sweeping across the population, a silent
killer. Loneliness, we are told, is a social disease that must be cured. But what does it mean …

This chapter moves away from considering individual trajectories of activists, and focuses
on the substantive issues that are made visible during processes of austerity activism. In so …

… Through an in-depth account of the struggle, this paper tells a story of the occupation
foregrounding the protracted process and persistent interventions that led up to it. In doing so, it …

This chapter considers a politics of care, firstly via a discussion of care ethics and
conceptualisations of care in broad terms, before moving on to consider care and transformations of …

… interventions that include removing trees and vegetation from the hilltops and slopes as well
… From the outset, PRODEA’s involvement has triggered concerns among residents, notably …

… important ‘texts’ for understanding culture for some decades, more recent research approaches
have explored the political potentials of storytelling as a set of practices and interventions…

… mechanisms through which the carer herself is held, or how a therapeutic setting and
intervention can recreate a holding environment. The network of care that ensures healthy …

A Question of Limits This book emerges from a growing sense that we are living in negative
times. We submit that this is hardly a contentious diagnosis. Over the last eight years, since …