Artful Practices

This book is about the social practices of survival. Case studies from Italy, the United Kingdom, Chile, Trinidad and Tobago, the United States, Canada, and Israel are included and offer an intriguing look at new emancipatory possibilities for citizens and their cities.
As the social, economic and political institutions we have lived with since the post-war settlement undergo massive transformations, a larger drama is being played out as broad segments of the population are increasingly marginalized and left alone to face the tyranny of ever-triumphant market forces. The terms of the social contract are being renegotiated and the artful practices of citizens coping with these massive changes point to a new political economy of everyday life.