The Simple Bare Necessities: Scales and Paradoxes of Thrift on a London Public Housing Estate (2022)
Journal Article
Alexander, C. (2022). The Simple Bare Necessities: Scales and Paradoxes of Thrift on a London Public Housing Estate. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 64(4), 934-965. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0010417522000159

This article tracks how a trope of middle-class household thrift, grounded on the autarchic Aristotelian oikos, has long fuelled derogatory discourses in Britain aimed at low-income urban residents who practise quite different forms of thrift. Since... Read More about The Simple Bare Necessities: Scales and Paradoxes of Thrift on a London Public Housing Estate.

Thrift, Anti-thrift, Scale and Paradox (2022)
Book Chapter
Alexander, C., & Sosna, D. (2022). Thrift, Anti-thrift, Scale and Paradox. In C. Alexander, & D. Sosna (Eds.), Thrift and its Paradoxes: From Domestic to Political Economy. Berghahn Books

Thrift and its Paradoxes: From Domestic to Political Economy (2022)
Book
Alexander, C., & Sosna, D. (Eds.). (2022). Thrift and its Paradoxes: From Domestic to Political Economy. Berghahn Books