Crisis, Austerity, and Transformation: How Disciplinary Neoliberalism Is Changing Portugal

The 2008 crisis hit Portugal hard, and this edited collection traces what that meant for the economy and for everyday social life. It argues that the effects were not only destructive. Austerity also set off transformations and reconfigurations, so that Portugal became something of a laboratory for new practices.

The contributions place the Portuguese case within a wider account rather than treating it as a local story alone. The book is most useful to readers who want to see how disciplinary neoliberal policy plays out in one country over time, and how the social fabric absorbs that pressure.

Published by Lexington Books in 2018, the volume runs to 226 pages in the edition we hold. ISBN-13 9781498543873.