20 Austerity
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Ed Kiely
Abstract
Geographers have often defined austerity in economic terms, neglecting the lived and felt dimensions of fiscal policies. In response, feminist researchers have begun to theorize austerity as an everyday phenomenon, highlighting its relational constitution and its impacts upon intimate geographies. This literature has interrogated the gendering of austerity, and its reproduction of intersecting social inequalities. It therefore takes up key themes from within feminist political geography, by grounding political institutions and power relations within everyday practices. Focusing predominantly on the UK, feminist geographers have interrogated the materialization of austerity within four interrelated, interpersonal domains: psychosocial; affective; discursive; and temporal. This work has mainly addressed the aftermath of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. Future research should more precisely define distinct periods of austerity, to reflect the ebbs and flows of fiscal policy across time. This would broaden the geographical and historical reach of this literature, by highlighting relations with earlier deployments of austerity within structural adjustment programs in the Global South. In turn, this would foster engagements with theories of austerity developed by work of African, Latin American, and Caribbean feminists, whose work remains neglected. Mainstream feminist geographies must go further in foregrounding the scholarship of Black feminists, who have offered crucial accounts of the relationships between austerity, racialization, and colonialism. As austerity threatens to further corrode labor conditions within universities, this demands feminist interventions to tackle academic precarity, which disproportionately affects Black women.
Abstract
Geographers have often defined austerity in economic terms, neglecting the lived and felt dimensions of fiscal policies. In response, feminist researchers have begun to theorize austerity as an everyday phenomenon, highlighting its relational constitution and its impacts upon intimate geographies. This literature has interrogated the gendering of austerity, and its reproduction of intersecting social inequalities. It therefore takes up key themes from within feminist political geography, by grounding political institutions and power relations within everyday practices. Focusing predominantly on the UK, feminist geographers have interrogated the materialization of austerity within four interrelated, interpersonal domains: psychosocial; affective; discursive; and temporal. This work has mainly addressed the aftermath of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. Future research should more precisely define distinct periods of austerity, to reflect the ebbs and flows of fiscal policy across time. This would broaden the geographical and historical reach of this literature, by highlighting relations with earlier deployments of austerity within structural adjustment programs in the Global South. In turn, this would foster engagements with theories of austerity developed by work of African, Latin American, and Caribbean feminists, whose work remains neglected. Mainstream feminist geographies must go further in foregrounding the scholarship of Black feminists, who have offered crucial accounts of the relationships between austerity, racialization, and colonialism. As austerity threatens to further corrode labor conditions within universities, this demands feminist interventions to tackle academic precarity, which disproportionately affects Black women.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Acknowledgements
- Contents VII
- 1 Introduction 1
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Part I: Foundations
- 2 The Feminist Geography Of Feminist Political Geography 18
- 3 Feminist Geopolitics 33
- 4 Intimate Geopolitics 51
- 5 Nationalism 65
- 6 De/coloniality 77
- 7 Decolonizing Feminist Geopolitics 89
- 8 Trauma 103
- 9 Peace 115
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Part II: Critical Interventions
- 10 Black Futurity 129
- 11 Racial Capitalism 141
- 12 Populism 153
- 13 Electoral Democracy 165
- 14 Crip Geographies 177
- 15 Queer Geographies 189
- 16 Trans Geographies 201
- 17 Cuerpo-Territorio 213
- 18 Geographies Of Technology 227
- 19 More-Than-Human Geographies 239
- 20 Austerity 251
- 21 Labor 263
- 22 Health 275
- 23 Environmental Justice 287
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Part III: Spaces
- 24 Territory 303
- 25 The Nation-State 315
- 26 The Border 329
- 27 Spaces Of Refuge And Asylum 341
- 28 The Body 353
- 29 Home 367
- 30 The Workplace 379
- 31 The City 391
- 32 The Rural 403
- 33 The Ocean 415
- 34 The Ship 427
- 35 Public Transport 439
- 36 Infrastructure 451
- 37 The Prison 461
- 38 Food 475
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Part IV: Methodologies
- 39 Postcolonial Positionality 487
- 40 Digital Methods And Community-Engaged Research 499
- 41 Fieldwork 511
- 42 Ethnography 525
- 43 Creative Political Geography 537
- 44 Mobile Methods 549
- 45 Life Histories 563
- 46 Black Feminist Literary Methods 575
- 47 Historical Approaches 587
- List of Contributors 599
- Index
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Acknowledgements
- Contents VII
- 1 Introduction 1
-
Part I: Foundations
- 2 The Feminist Geography Of Feminist Political Geography 18
- 3 Feminist Geopolitics 33
- 4 Intimate Geopolitics 51
- 5 Nationalism 65
- 6 De/coloniality 77
- 7 Decolonizing Feminist Geopolitics 89
- 8 Trauma 103
- 9 Peace 115
-
Part II: Critical Interventions
- 10 Black Futurity 129
- 11 Racial Capitalism 141
- 12 Populism 153
- 13 Electoral Democracy 165
- 14 Crip Geographies 177
- 15 Queer Geographies 189
- 16 Trans Geographies 201
- 17 Cuerpo-Territorio 213
- 18 Geographies Of Technology 227
- 19 More-Than-Human Geographies 239
- 20 Austerity 251
- 21 Labor 263
- 22 Health 275
- 23 Environmental Justice 287
-
Part III: Spaces
- 24 Territory 303
- 25 The Nation-State 315
- 26 The Border 329
- 27 Spaces Of Refuge And Asylum 341
- 28 The Body 353
- 29 Home 367
- 30 The Workplace 379
- 31 The City 391
- 32 The Rural 403
- 33 The Ocean 415
- 34 The Ship 427
- 35 Public Transport 439
- 36 Infrastructure 451
- 37 The Prison 461
- 38 Food 475
-
Part IV: Methodologies
- 39 Postcolonial Positionality 487
- 40 Digital Methods And Community-Engaged Research 499
- 41 Fieldwork 511
- 42 Ethnography 525
- 43 Creative Political Geography 537
- 44 Mobile Methods 549
- 45 Life Histories 563
- 46 Black Feminist Literary Methods 575
- 47 Historical Approaches 587
- List of Contributors 599
- Index
