Holding hope: Financial coaching and the depoliticisation of poverty

Loomis, Jessa M.

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“…These hopes in turn strengthened neoliberalization tendencies beyond reason. As previous descriptions of euphoric speculations reveal, investors were far from rational, and tended towards a neoliberal praxis that bet hopefully on futures that were not necessarily realistic (Anderson, 2016; Loomis, 2022). Despite individual investor failure, repeated waves of privatization and speculation enabled future iterations of growth‐oriented investment and financialization.…”

Section: Researching Affective Mediations In Leipzigmentioning

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BETWEEN DEPRESSION AND HOPE: Affective Mediations of Urban Restructuring in Leipzig, East Germany

Reichle¹

2023

Int J Urban Regional Res

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In this article, which is based on an empirical analysis of neoliberal restructuring in Leipzig, East Germany, I describe how the study of affective atmospheres adds to our understanding of urban restructuring, showing how collective moods affect (de)mobilization, contestation and the regulation of urban political economy to shed light on the relation between institutional, political and social processes. I demonstrate the relevance of affect for power relations, political interactions beyond rationality, and the rhythms and temporalities of urban restructuring, as exemplified by two prominent atmospheres that characterize Leipzig—post shrinkage depression (PSD) and anticipatory hope (AH).

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BETWEEN DEPRESSION AND HOPE: Affective Mediations of Urban Restructuring in Leipzig, East Germany

Reichle¹

2023

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Embodying industrial transitions: Melancholy loss, interrupted habit and transitional memory after the end of a coal mine

Zhang

2024

Trans Inst British Geog

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Geographical and interdisciplinary literatures often focus on the enduring losses engendered by industrial closure and economic change, describing the moment of deindustrialisation as a cut in the fabric of history. In this imaginary, people and place become suspended in the past, through ‘melancholy’ logics of attachment, ruination and loss. The aim of this article is to reorient these melancholy temporalities by demonstrating memory's central, though perhaps paradoxical, role in transitioning bodies through the afterlife of economic closure. Alongside three stories from an empirical study of life after two coal mine closures in Australia and China, I look to theories of melancholy and habit—understood as embodied, preconscious forms of non‐representational memory—to explore workers' capacities to reorient and rebuild subjectivity in the wake of closure's interruptions and disorientations. I emphasise the work of memory in knitting together life after ‘the end’, through transitional processes of reckoning, acting and learning that engender changing bodily intensities and evaluations, and the possibility of a renewed sense of life as ordinary. Taken together, this article makes paired contributions to literatures on economic change and geographies of memory. By looking beyond linear narratives of rupture and decline, it recognises the afterlife of industrial closure as an intimate site of transition without losing sight of the past. By showing how even melancholy memories are imbricated in the production of altered presents and futures, it emphasises memory's parallax operation as an embodied force of differentiation.

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Holding hope: Financial coaching and the depoliticisation of poverty

Cited by 2 publications

References 95 publications

BETWEEN DEPRESSION AND HOPE: Affective Mediations of Urban Restructuring in Leipzig, East Germany

BETWEEN DEPRESSION AND HOPE: Affective Mediations of Urban Restructuring in Leipzig, East Germany

Embodying industrial transitions: Melancholy loss, interrupted habit and transitional memory after the end of a coal mine

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