Everyday Ethics of Consumption in the Austere City

Hall, Sarah Marie

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“…Sometimes this was because grants have dried up, or because volunteers running community groups and centres – often women (Jupp ) – needed to find paid work to support themselves and their families. There were also fewer people making use of these services because, I was told, they could not afford the travel or associated expense (Hall ). When I did attend groups that were still running, my presence often provoked heartfelt discussions about the impact austerity was having on those present, their family and friends, and the wider community.…”

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“…The realities of austerity are for some intrinsically connected to experiences of poverty, precarity and insecurity (see Jupp ), and many of the cuts to welfare will have a disproportionate impact on those in already‐difficult situations (JRF ). However, it is possible to be impacted by austerity but not necessarily be (or define oneself as) living in poverty or a personal condition of austerity (see Hall ; Waite ), or to be living in poverty in a period of economic prosperity (see Smith ). While there is no generalised personal condition of austerity, austerity as a socio‐economic condition is nonetheless a point of commonality and mutuality, something that many people may be ‘living in’ but not ‘living with’.…”

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Personal, relational and intimate geographies of austerity: ethical and empirical considerations

Hall

2015

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The impacts of austerity have permeated many aspects of everyday life in the UK, making this an important context in which to carry out social research. In this paper I consider some of the challenges that austerity poses to how we carry out research into everyday austerities and the ethical implications of researching in austere conditions. Drawing on debates from feminist and moral geographies on ethics, care and responsibility, and on first-hand experiences of researching families in the current economic climate, I argue that the everyday mechanics of research -such as recompensing participants, and the place of the researcher -acquire particular resonance in austerity. In doing so, I also reflect on the significance of social proximity and personal biography, and the ways in which researchers may become enveloped in participants' personal narratives in addition to providing support and care. In the conclusion I identify contributions made to understandings of care and responsibility in fieldwork, the ethics of researching in and about austerity, and the relational space of the field.

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Personal, relational and intimate geographies of austerity: ethical and empirical considerations

Hall

2015

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“…Understandings of the phenomenon are multifaceted. In socio-cultural geography, austerity has been depicted as a 'condition' (Hall, 2015) that results from cuts in public budgets and requires 'doing more with less' (Dąbrowski, 2015, page 73). Newman (2017) has identified three distinctive aspects of austerity: 'policy', 'ideology' and 'governmentality'.…”

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“…In this regard, austerity can be understood as a constitutive part of broader and longer processes of neoliberal precarization, underpinned by the replacement of permanent job opportunities with temporary employment contracts offering minimal social security, or the decreased provision of health insurance, paid holidays, and pensions (Lorey, 2015). While austerity research has focused predominantly on scrutinizing large scale structural change (Bristow and Healy, 2015;Peck, 2012), more recent contributions have focused on the everyday strategies and tactics developed by people to overcome the consequences of austerity regimes (Hall, 2015;Vaiou, 2014).…”

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Everyday politics of austerity: Infrastructure and vulnerability in times of crisis

Petrova

Prodromidou

2019

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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Growing numbers of households in Greece are unable to secure adequate levels of energy services in the home-a condition generally known as energy poverty. This situation can largely be attributed to the imposition of an austerity regime following the post-2008 debt crisis. We scrutinize the everyday experiences of, and resistance to, austerity among the 'new energy poor'-an emergent socio-demographic group whose vulnerability is contingent upon decreasing incomes, high prices, new taxation and inadequate socio-technical infrastructures. Having undertaken ethnographic research with 25 households living in and around the Northern Greek city of Thessaloniki, we draw on theoretical insights from the domains of informal household practices and environmentality frameworks to highlight the manner in which the austerity regime simultaneously renders households vulnerable and governable. The geographies of the new energy poor include a variety of spatial settings-in urban and peri-urban locations alike-that are constitutive of multiple material sites while being dependent upon them. This points to the existence of an infrastructurally-embedded everyday landscape of austerity that amalgamates the state policies, corporate interests, household practices and material pathways through which energy is produced and consumed.

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“…The notion of the everyday has mainly been associated with moral and ethical, rather than political practice. For an overview see Smith () and Hall ().…”

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Everyday proper politics: rereading the post‐political through mobilities of drug policy activism

Temenos

2017

Trans Inst British Geog

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This paper explores the connections between activism for drug policy reform and the post‐political conditioning of urban politics. The emergent literature on policy mobilities is brought into conversation with post‐political analyses on the constitution of the properly political, arguing that there has been much focus on moments of rupture in the seemingly post‐political condition while ignoring ongoing political resistances, what I call ‘everyday proper politics’. Resultant analyses of urban politics are therefore often incomplete. This paper moves to address the gap between rupture and resistance through a global examination of harm reduction; a policy, practice and philosophy that embodies contemporary (post‐) political contradictions. It is an evidence‐based public health policy often enacted through medicalised practices across state, public and private space, yet its history and philosophy are rooted in radical understandings of participatory democracy. Exploring activism for harm‐reduction policies and the ways they are made manifest in cities globally begins to unravel the paradox of radical care practice and liberalised notions of self‐care that harm reduction embodies. Harm reduction, as it is mobilised across cities with divergent histories, localities and political contexts, demonstrates that its post‐political framing does not foreclose a radical politics of public health but rather can enable it. This paper demonstrates that public health and post‐politics intersect at the important points of health, wellbeing and urban development. In a post‐political condition, public health agencies assume the role of technical experts under the auspices of advanced neoliberalisation. Yet when questions arise regarding the management of drug use, drug users’ right to health and resources that engage and facilitate these activities, it becomes apparent that there indeed remain properly political battles to fight, battles that attract extra‐local audiences and coalitions from both sides of the debate that to attempt to influence policy outcomes in places far away.

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Everyday Ethics of Consumption in the Austere City

Cited by 30 publications

References 51 publications

Personal, relational and intimate geographies of austerity: ethical and empirical considerations

Personal, relational and intimate geographies of austerity: ethical and empirical considerations

Everyday politics of austerity: Infrastructure and vulnerability in times of crisis

Everyday proper politics: rereading the post‐political through mobilities of drug policy activism

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