Invisible Britain: Portraits of Hope and Resilience

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Portraits of Hope and Resilience

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Edited by Paul Sng

Publisher:: Bristol University Press
Online publication date:: April 2023
Print publication year:: 2018
Online ISBN:: 9781447344124
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.46692/9781447344124

Subjects:: Sociology: General Interest, Sociology

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A photographic ethnography book that features the stories and portraits of individuals across the UK who have been impacted by social issues such as austerity, Brexit, deindustrialisation, nationalism and cuts to public services.

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Portraits of Hope and Resilience

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Frontmatter
pp 1-6

Acknowledgements
pp 7-7

Foreword
pp 8-9

Introduction
pp 10-13

Immigration has completely changed the city. There’s a thriving community of Asian people.
pp 14-15

If you say Easterhouse to someone, the first thing they think of is normally gangs, violence and drugs.
pp 16-16

There was a family on my floor: a mum, dad, sister and two brothers. None of them made it out.
pp 17-19

The land was just sitting there and the idea came up about making an allotment on the bog land, so that the people in the community could grow their own fresh food.
pp 20-20

Living a life that is affected by austerity feels like a judgement from a Tory government of who I am. I don’t feel that there’s anybody looking out for my interests as a human being.
pp 21-23

When I first found out I had MND, Steph had just given birth to Ralphie, so we went from that amazing high to being told that I’d got something that could potentially kill me in two years.
pp 24-24

I felt like a little invisible shadow. People knew, but I couldn’t tell anyone, as I was so scared that my child would be taken away. I thought if I kept my mouth shut, then at least I had my daughter.
pp 25-27

Even as a kid going to school, I felt like teachers had a handbook on how to deal with particular kids when it came to race. They’re so quick to kick us out of school.
pp 28-28

Campaigning with DPAC – Disabled People Against Cuts – gave me direction. It kept me going when I would’ve given up.
pp 29-31

The cranes are like big guns aimed in on us. We are surrounded.
pp 32-32

I feel the country is more divided. Maybe because of Brexit, but it feels like the gap has widened between left and right.
pp 33-35

Emergency accommodation is supposed to mean anything from a week to six months. But I ended up being there for over a year.
pp 36-36

I think we are a great example that you can start your life over again at any age.
pp 37-39

A supervisor was bullying me, and when I confronted him he told me women are only here for having children, and called me a donkey.
pp 40-40

I think the EU got blamed for things it wasn’t responsible for, not that it was perfect. Some farmers saw the referendum as an opportunity to have change.
pp 41-43

There were nine of us, all musicians. I was the only one who could speak English, not good, but better than the others, so I volunteered to speak about asylum.
pp 44-44

It always seems to come down to money nowadays. And actually, what should be more important is what children need.
pp 45-47

I’ve been in trouble quite a lot in my life. Nothing too serious, and somehow I’ve only been to prison once.
pp 48-48

We don’t have to accept this attack on our living standards, we don’t have to accept the demonisation of the various minorities, be they disabled, poor, single parents, immigrants or refugees.
pp 49-51

I try and bring a sense of love, belonging and family to the women. I believe in every one of them and I will never stop.
pp 52-52

I’m passionate about young people knowing that everything is political.
pp 53-56

I just couldn’t move. I was on that many different opiates, my body couldn’t cope with it.
pp 57-59

The biggest thing for me about being a single parent is the fact that people do seem to think that it defines you in some way.
pp 60-60

Being a trans woman in the 70s was exceedingly difficult. We weren’t breaking Queen’s Regulations by being transgendered, but the military police thought that it could be used against us.
pp 61-63

Am I accepted because I’m the token black woman to make up a percentage of black artists, or for my hard work and talent?
pp 64-64

When I was selling drugs I was always thinking about the money. I didn’t actually see the effect it has on the users.
pp 65-67

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