‘In the end you adapt to anything’: responses to narratives of resilience and entrepreneurship in post-recession Spain

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• dc.contributor.author Oliva Rota, Mercè
• dc.contributor.author Pérez Latorre, Óliver
• dc.contributor.author Besalú Casademont, Reinald, 1983-
• dc.date.accessioned 2021-08-27T08:07:16Z
• dc.date.available 2021-08-27T08:07:16Z
• dc.date.issued 2021
• dc.description.abstract Resilience – the ability to bounce back from hardship – is a concept that has become popular during the years of economic crisis and post-recession. Contemporary citizens are expected to be flexible, have a positive attitude, and take care of themselves in a context of heightened inequality and precarity. The objective of this article is to analyze how citizens in post-recession Spain respond to media representations that prescribe these values. Eight focus groups were held with middle- and working-class men and women (a total of 62 participants) who discussed four short stories written by the researchers which condensed the main concepts found in media narratives studied previously (including TV series, reality TV, advertisements, video games and celebrity culture). The results of our analysis show that participants tended to praise change and adaptability. The ‘complacent citizen’, who seeks security and refuses to adapt to the current precarious and unstable environments, emerges as a ‘bad citizen’, and security and stability are pathologized. There were differences between the middle and workingclass groups: while the former clearly adhered to the neoliberal discourse that sees flexibility and self-improvement as a moral obligation, the latter showed a more ambivalent response to these discourses.
• dc.description.sponsorship The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/ or publication of this article: This work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness [grant number CSO2014-56830-P].
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• dc.identifier.citation Oliva M, Pérez-Latorre O, Besalú R. ‘In the end you adapt to anything’: responses to narratives of resilience and entrepreneurship in post-recession Spain. Eur J Cult Stud. 2021 Aug 22; 34 p. DOI: 10.1177/13675494211034168
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13675494211034168
• dc.identifier.issn 1367-5494
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/48336
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher SAGE Publications
• dc.relation.ispartof European Journal of Cultural Studies. 2021 Aug 22; 34 p.
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/CSO2014-56830-P
• dc.rights Mercè Oliva, Óliver Pérez-Latorre, Reinald Besalú. ‘In the end you adapt to anything’: responses to narratives of resilience and entrepreneurship in post-recession Spain. Eur J Cult Stud. 2021 Aug 22; 34 p. Copyright © © The Author(s) 2021. DOI: 10.1177/13675494211034168.
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• dc.subject.keyword Resilience
• dc.subject.keyword Neoliberalism
• dc.subject.keyword Great Recession
• dc.subject.keyword Economic crisis
• dc.subject.keyword Class
• dc.subject.keyword Entrepreneurship
• dc.subject.keyword Flexibility
• dc.subject.keyword Precariousness
• dc.subject.keyword Popular culture
• dc.subject.keyword Audience
• dc.title ‘In the end you adapt to anything’: responses to narratives of resilience and entrepreneurship in post-recession Spain
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