Katherine Smith

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Health inequality has reached a crisis point. Your income or hometown can have a devastating impact on how well and how long you live. This injustice, exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic, continues as the cost of living rises and other sources of inequity grow. What can be done to make things better? Getting...

When every version of your life is possible, which one will you call home? At forty, Dak has perfected the art of survival. She runs a hotel with wit, grace, and just enough caffeine to hide the exhaustion beneath her calm. After a lifetime of loss — her father's suicide, her brother's overdose, and a marriage that ended in betrayal...

The book is based on nearly a decade (2011–2020) of sustained ethnographic research within and across households in Harpurhey, North Manchester, England. Harpurhey is a suburban area in Manchester, located just three and a half miles northeast of the city centre. Living with Poverty and Dependence in England interrogates the everyday lives of people in Harpurhey ethnographically, placing their lives...