Solidarity under Austerity: Intersectionality in France and the United Kingdom

Bassel, Leah; Emejulu, Akwugo

doi:10.1017/s1743923x13000597

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“…Intersectionality is not only an analytical framework to recognise complex inequalities, it is also a counter-hegemonic praxis that seeks to challenge and displace hegemonic whiteness and patriarchy. Within this framework, women of colour are not constructed as passive objects but active agents of change (Bassel and Emejulu 2014). This understanding of intersectionality as praxis, which addresses asymmetries in power through collective action, can enrich childhood studies.…”

Section: Intersectionality As Emancipatory Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

When intersectionality met childhood studies: the dilemmas of a travelling concept

Konstantoni

Emejulu

2016

Children's Geographies

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Childhood studies/geographies have a longstanding interest in questions around multiple social inequalities and identities in diverse socio-spatial contexts, but have not yet seriously considered the politics of intersectionality. Importing intersectionality into childhood studies is neither a straightforward nor an unproblematic process. We suggest that the question that childhood studies/geographies scholars must confront is how intersectionality can be used in this interdisciplinary field in ways which recognise and take seriously the intellectual history and labour of Black women and preserve the integrity of intersectionality's radical praxis of emancipatory knowledge production and collective action for social justice. This article examines how intersectionality and its emancipatory politics might be preserved, strengthened and enhanced when it is operationalised in a context of childhood studies/geographies.

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Section: Intersectionality As Emancipatory Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

When intersectionality met childhood studies: the dilemmas of a travelling concept

Konstantoni

Emejulu

2016

Children's Geographies

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“…Indeed, the perceived changes to funding allocation, access, and general scarcity of funding was discussed by some middle-grade participants as a driver of greater cohesion on the biosphere reserve's UNESCO mission. However, this sense of increasing 'shared mission' was less likely to be shared by senior-grade participants who instead tended towards focusing on the negative consequences of the funding changes on their intra-partnership sense of shared mission; which chimes with other contributions evidencing that austerity can enhance intra-group solidarities [50,60]. The enhanced perception of shared mission was credited with bringing non-managerial members closer together, and making them more likely to express that the biosphere reserve had value as an institution that transcended their own organisations.…”

Section: Collaborative Governancementioning

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The Contours of State Retreat from Collaborative Environmental Governance under Austerity

2020

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Although the effects of public austerity have been the subject of a significant literature in recent years, the changing role of the state as a partner in collaborative environmental governance under austerity has received less attention. By employing theories of collaborative governance and state retreat, this paper used a qualitative research design comprised of thirty-two semi-structured interviews within the case study UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in the United Kingdom to address this lacuna. Participants perceived that the austerity period has precipitated negative changes to their extant state-orientated funding regime, which had compelled changes to their organisational structure. Austerity damaged their relationships with the state and perceptions of state legitimacy whilst simultaneously strengthening and straining the relationships between intra-partnership non-state governance actors. This case offers a critical contemporary reflection on normative collaborative environmental governance theory under austerity programmes. These open up questions about the role of the state in wider sustainability transitions.

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“…The groups of women involved were very different, especially in relation to ethnicity, location and focus of organisations. Their responses to austerity and to their local situations were clearly not just gendered but could also be thought of as ‘intersectional’, relating to migration, poverty and even home life itself (see Bassel and Emejulu, 2014). However, rather than tracing the different axes of identity involved, I wish to show how both groups of women draw on registers of the home, and modes of women-centred organising which are illuminating.…”

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Home space, gender and activism: The visible and the invisible in austere times

Jupp

2017

Critical Social Policy

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This paper argues for the centrality of the home in understanding both the impacts of UK esponses. The article focuses on gendered forms of activism, particularly among low income women. Empirical material is drawn from research with women in different contexts, a network of migrant women in London and a group of community activists in Stoke on Trent, in order to identify three particular registers of home-based and, by extension, community activism, including notions of the everyday , the inbetween and experiences of trauma. There is also a brief discussion of housing activism in contemporary London in order to explore how such analysis might be applied to other forms of organising. There is a call for more sustained consideration of these often hidden forms of activism from researchers in understanding, as well as intervening in, the dynamics of contemporary social policy and governance.

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Solidarity under Austerity: Intersectionality in France and the United Kingdom

Cited by 30 publications

References 11 publications

When intersectionality met childhood studies: the dilemmas of a travelling concept

When intersectionality met childhood studies: the dilemmas of a travelling concept

The Contours of State Retreat from Collaborative Environmental Governance under Austerity

Home space, gender and activism: The visible and the invisible in austere times

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