CfP RGS-IBG 2020: Legacies of austerity: what, who, and when does it leave behind?
With apologies for cross posting! RGS-IBG Annual International Conference: 1st-4th September 2020, London. Call for Abstracts: “Legacies of austerity: what, who, and when does it leave behind?” Abstract deadline – Wednesday 5th February. Session convenors: Sander van Lanen (University of Groningen) and Sarah Marie Hall (University of Manchester) Session Sponsor: Social and Cultural Geography Research Group Over a decade has passed since the 2008 financial crisis, but the socio-spatial consequences of austerity still haunt contemporary spaces of everyday life. The narrative of austerity shifted from austerity as crisis ‘measure’ to governing ‘ideology’. What does this transformation mean for social, cultural and economic geographies? How does this shift affect austerity’s spatial outcomes, reception and resistance? Does austerity still hold as an explanatory factor or are we facing poverty by other means? In two sessions, we examine how austerity’s legacies settle in everyday life and shape everyday geographies. In the first session, creative output made by, with, and for groups living with austerity explore its legacies. Accompanied by talks, these forms of co-production explore how austerity has taken root in everyday lives and experiences. During the second session, 15-minute conference papers address the legacies of austerity, including ‘austerity events’ and ‘austerity ideologies’. How did austerity reassemble everyday life and transform social relations? This session invites projects that assess austerity’s embedded legacies, now and into the future. Together, these sessions explore how the legacies of austerity become embedded in the ‘new normal, and how the future is imagined in response to, or in spite of, these legacies. If you are interested in participating in one (or both) of these sessions, please send an abstract of your contribution of no more than 250 words to Sander van Lanen (s.van.la...@rug.nl<mailto:s.van.la...@rug.nl>) and Sarah Marie Hall (sarah.m.h...@manchester.ac.uk<mailto:sarah.m.h...@manchester.ac.uk>) by Wednesday 5th February 2020. We encourage the addition of visual elements to your abstract, especially when submitting for the creative output session. Dr Sarah Marie Hall Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, ISRF Fellow and Morgan Centre Member, University of Manchester Telephone: 0161 275 3652 Website <https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Feverydayausterity.wordpress.com%2Fdata=02%7C01%7CECONOMICGEOGRAPHY-L%40LISTSERV.UCONN.EDU%7Cad533eebca094d5b24af08d799ac388f%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C1%7C637146837279570053sdata=CzcDkJeh3cxjy45%2FJwtQN4ZP9ijxLZ1NU7fqzgInsJI%3Dreserved=0> | Profile <https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.research.manchester.ac.uk%2Fportal%2Fsarah.m.hall.htmldata=02%7C01%7CECONOMICGEOGRAPHY-L%40LISTSERV.UCONN.EDU%7Cad533eebca094d5b24af08d799ac388f%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C1%7C637146837279570053sdata=LVFfW4Ww%2BD2PAa8jJ%2Bst4Wrn2GjnJkICTNmnDD0PGBQ%3Dreserved=0> | Spotlight<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.seed.manchester.ac.uk%2Fabout%2Fstories%2Fwhy-austerity-is-gendered%2Fdata=02%7C01%7CECONOMICGEOGRAPHY-L%40LISTSERV.UCONN.EDU%7Cad533eebca094d5b24af08d799ac388f%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C1%7C637146837279570053sdata=ufuJP9D6mEpkAaJ9BUIZ8PD97McrzR9XegUxiy0u5xg%3Dreserved=0> Most recent report<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.intersecting-inequalities.com%2Fcopy-of-reportdata=02%7C01%7CECONOMICGEOGRAPHY-L%40LISTSERV.UCONN.EDU%7Cad533eebca094d5b24af08d799ac388f%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C1%7C637146837279570053sdata=b5yfLHjN8C3%2FPc%2FJQb7kCx0GUs%2BMB3LNWxnLDpMEMok%3Dreserved=0>, book<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.palgrave.com%2Fgp%2Fbook%2F9783030170936data=02%7C01%7CECONOMICGEOGRAPHY-L%40LISTSERV.UCONN.EDU%7Cad533eebca094d5b24af08d799ac388f%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C1%7C637146837279580060sdata=%2B1DKXdHxYiH8q8G8DGUd0UqEVyp%2Fnd5Pcdx28TST4S8%3Dreserved=0> <https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.routledge.com%2FSharing-Economies-in-Times-of-Crisis-Practices-Politics-and-Possibilities%2FInce-Hall%2Fp%2Fbook%2F9781138959415data=02%7C01%7CECONOMICGEOGRAPHY-L%40LISTSERV.UCONN.EDU%7Cad533eebca094d5b24af08d799ac388f%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C1%7C637146837279580060sdata=GrWWlAOmIxXCZ2Dn2luYwyVqM9I%2FtOfG6sab7a0HmPc%3Dreserved=0> and paper<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Frgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com%2Fdoi%2F10.%2Ftran.12300data=02%7C01%7CECONOMICGEOGRAPHY-L%40LISTSERV.UCONN.EDU%7Cad533eebca094d5b24af08d799ac388f%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C1%7C637146837279580060sdata=jbenzLtsO%2FaMuhZcywPrguzM6DAln6XqFwOp%2FC76wwQ%3Dreserved=0>
FW: Call for Panellists NGM Stockholm 2017: Brexit Futures Roundtable Discussion
With apologies for cross posting... Call for Panellists: Brexit Futures Roundtable Discussion 7th Nordic Geographers Meeting 2017, Stockholm, Sweden, June 18th–21st 2017 Conveners: Dr Kathy Burrell, Dept. of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool and Dr Sarah M Hall, Dept. of Geography, University of Manchester Since the referendum result for ‘Brexit’ in June 2016, the UK has entered a period of potentially seismic change. While most obviously this threatens to reconfigure the UK’s relationship with the rest of the European Union and European mobility regimes, the political and economic restructuring that Brexit is likely to entail brings with it many other possible and equally fundamental uncertainties. There is a sense of history in the making in front of us – the question is how this history will unfold, how well we are going to be able to understand it, and how attentive we are going to be to how it plays out in people’s lived experiences. This roundtable discussion seeks to explore these possible ‘Brexit futures’, asking what it means for the EU and the wider continent of Europe, but also what it might mean for people living in the UK in their day to day lives and the futures they foresee in front of them. Key questions include: • what does Brexit mean for mobility, and mobility equalities, within Europe and the EU? • how might Brexit impact on European imaginaries in the UK? • what implications are there for EU migrants in the UK – does it herald a new type of precarity? • how might Brexit be experienced socially in the UK? • what hidden inequalities might be revealed as a result of Brexit? • what does Brexit mean for an austere Europe? • how might Brexit be understood as something lived and experienced? • how might Brexit impact on the way people imagine the future – their own but also national and European futures? • how might Brexit be understood as part of a prefigurative politics? We welcome expressions of interest from potential panel members to be emailed to kburr...@liverpool.ac.uk and sarah.m.h...@manchester.ac.uk by 15 December 2016. Please tell us what you would be able to talk about, which questions you would like to address or other perspectives you could bring.
NGM 2017 - Austerities, economic crises and neoliberalisms: experiences of children, young people and families
Sorry for cross posting, but some list members might be interested in this session in Stockholm next year. Call for Papers: Nordic Geographers Meeting (NGM2017) (Stockholm, Sweden: June 18th - 21st 2017) Austerities, economic crises and neoliberalisms: experiences of children, young people and families Convenors: John Horton (University of Northampton, UK) Helena Pimlott-Wilson (Loughborough University, UK), Sarah Marie Hall (University of Manchester, UK) Call for papers: This paper session will explore ways in which diverse, challenging geographies of 'austerity', 'economic crisis' and 'neoliberalism' have affected the lives of children, young people and families in international contexts over the last decade. There is mounting evidence that these social, political and economic contexts are substantially transforming contemporary geographies of childhood, youth and family and constituting new or intensified forms of inequality. In this context, the session will bring together new empirical and conceptual papers in three thematic areas. First, we invite submissions of research papers - including qualitative, quantitative and multi-methods projects - evidencing experiences of children, young people and families in diverse contexts of austerity, economic crisis and neoliberalism. The session will explore the geographically-differentiated, regionally-distinctive and personally-provoking nature of these experiences, via case studies from different states, regions, localities, cities and communities. We particularly seek papers which consider intersections between local/family geographies of austerity, economic crisis and neoliberalism and wider spatial/social inequalities (e.g. around age, gender, ethnicity, disability, social class) or contemporary geographical issues (e.g. mobilities, migrations, debt, finance, use of public space). Second, we invite papers which provide new conceptual and methodological reflections relating to the session themes. We particularly seek papers which critically consider discourses of 'austerity', 'economic crisis' and 'neoliberalism' in relation to contemporary ideas of 'childhood', 'youth' and 'family', or which showcase new, interdisciplinary methodological tools for exploring and analysing new geographies and inequalities in this context. Third, the session we invite papers exploring the involvement of children, young people and families in practices which contest, or offer alternatives to, geographies of 'austerity', 'economic crisis' and 'neoliberalism'. Please submit abstracts (no longer than 300 words) by December 10th 2016 to: John Horton (john.hor...@northampton.ac.uk) Helena Pimlott-Wilson (h.pimlott-wil...@lboro.ac.uk) Sarah Marie Hall (sarah.m.h...@manchester.ac.uk) Dr Sarah Marie Hall Lecturer in Human Geography, Chair of School Ethics Committee, Morgan Centre Member - University of Manchester Telephone: 0161 275 3652 I aim to respond to emails within two working days. Website -- Spotlight -- Research Groups Most recent publication: Hall, S.M. (2016) 'Everyday Family Experiences of the Financial Crisis: Getting By in the Recent Economic Recession',Journal of Economic Geography, 16(2): 305-330.
PhD Studentship opportunity - University of Manchester
With apologies for cross-posting... We are looking for applicants for this exciting ESRC CASE +3 studentship in the Cathie March Institute for Social Research and Geography, School of Environment Education and Development at the University of Manchester in collaboration with the Citizens Advice Bureau. Please feel free to circulate this advert through your networks, and do get in touch if you are interested in applying: Decision Making and Financial Resilience Amongst Low Income Families in the UK The internationally recognised 6* Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research (www.cmist.manchester.ac.uk<http://www.cmist.manchester.ac.uk/>) and the School of Environment, Education and Development at the University of Manchester invite applications for an ESRC CASE PhD studentship focused on examining decision making and financial resilience amongst low income families in the UK. The studentship project Poverty in the UK persists. 1 in 5 people (nearly 13 million people) are estimated to live below the official relative poverty line. In some local authorities more than 70% of children are estimated to live below the standard poverty line. Nearly half those in poverty live in working households. Around one in five people say they would have to borrow money if they needed £200 at short notice (Step Change 2014). The aim of the PhD is to develop an understanding of how people on low incomes manage their finances. It will examine how financial decisions (including spending, saving, borrowing and lending) are made. The PhD will involve quantitative and qualitative research including the statistical modelling of survey data, life history interviews and participant observation. Working alongside Dr. K. Purdam and Dr. S. M. Hall, the PhD student will join an active research network. There will be opportunities for training in a range of research and employment related skills including: project management, data analysis, report writing and presenting. The student will be primarily based in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Manchester, but engage regularly with colleagues in the School of Environment, Education and Development and with staff from the Citizens Advice Bureau. Some UK travel will be required during the PhD. The successful applicant will need to show the potential to develop a range of research skills and expertise across a number of disciplines including: sociology, human geography and social statistics. A 1st class or 2.1 degree in a relevant discipline and a merit or higher ESRC recognised MSc with a substantial research methods component (or graduating in September 2016) are required. Please see the following link for more information: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AMU296/phd-studentship-decision-making-and-financial-resilience-amongst-low-income-families-in-the-uk/ The deadline for applications is 2pm on Monday 1st February 2016 For informal enquiries please contact: Dr. K. Purdam kingsley.pur...@manchester.ac.uk<mailto:kingsley.pur...@manchester.ac.uk> or Dr. S.M.Hall sarah.m.h...@manchester.ac.uk<mailto:sarah.m.h...@manchester.ac.uk> Thanks! Sarah Dr Sarah Marie Hall Lecturer in Human Geography University of Manchester Email: sarah.m.h...@manchester.ac.uk<mailto:sarah.m.h...@manchester.ac.uk> Telephone: 0161 275 3652 Website: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/sarah.m.hall/ Spotlight: http://www.seed.manchester.ac.uk/subjects/geography/ourpeople/staffspotlight/sarah-marie-hall/ Social & Cultural Research Group: http://www.seed.manchester.ac.uk/subjects/geography/research/research-groups/social-and-cultural-geography/ Most recent publications: Hall, S.M. (2015) 'Everyday Family Experiences of the Financial Crisis: Getting By in the Recent Economic Recession', Journal of Economic Geography, Online First. Hall, S.M. (in press) 'Personal, relational and intimate geographies of austerity: ethical and empirical considerations', Area. Hall, S.M. (forthcoming) 'Moral geographies of family: articulating, forming and transmitting moralities in everyday life', Social & Cultural Geography.
EGRG at RGS-IBG 2016: Call for session proposals
With apologies for cross-posting CALL FOR SESSION PROPOSALS for the Economic Geography Research Group (EGRG), Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual Conference 2016, London The Committee of the Economic Geography Research Group (EGRG) would like to invite proposals for sessions to be sponsored by the EGRG at the 2016 Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) (RGS-IBG). We are able to sponsor numerous sessions which, in total, account for no more than 12 timeslots (usually 1-2 timeslots per session), and are looking forward to EGRG having its usual presence at the forthcoming annual event. The RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2016, which will be chaired by Professor Peter Jackson (University of Sheffield), will have as its theme 'Nexus Thinking'. EGRG members and those of the geographical and related communities are invited to propose sessions. We would also welcome joint sessions with other research groups. Proposals should relate to debates, literatures or approaches in economic geography (http://www.egrg.rgs.org/). Sessions may take the form of presented papers, panels, practitioner forums, discussions or workshops, and innovative sessions and formats are encouraged. Conference details Date: Tuesday 30th August to Friday 2nd September 2016 Location: Royal Geographical Society, London Conference Theme: The theme for the 2016 Annual Conference is nexus thinking, an approach that has attracted a surge of interest in the last five years among academics, policy-makers and third sector organizations. The aim of nexus thinking is to address the interdependencies, tensions and trade-offs between different environmental and social domains – an approach to which geographers might feel an inherent attraction. Rather than seeing energy, food and water resources as separate systems, for example, nexus thinking focuses on their interconnections, favouring an integrated approach that moves beyond national, sectoral, policy and disciplinary silos to identify more efficient, equitable and sustainable use of scarce resources. The 2016 annual conference offers an opportunity to take these ideas forward both in the specific context of research on water, energy and food security but also, more widely, by demonstrating the power of geographical thinking to work across disciplinary boundaries, to think relationally and to make connections across time and space. The conference encourages debate about these issues, including what nexus thinking might add to existing approaches and what its potential might be as a metaphor or method. Submitting Proposals for EGRG sponsored sessions Proposals for, or questions about, EGRG sponsored sessions should be sent to Sarah Marie Hall at sarah.m.h...@manchester.ac.uk Proposals should be submitted by Tuesday 22nd December 2015 and should comprise (i) Title; (ii) Name of co-sponsoring groups, if applicable (iii) Name and contact details for session convenors (iv) Abstract, outlining scope of session (v) Number of session timeslots that are sought - usually up to 2 timeslots per session, with each timeslot comprising 100 minutes (vi) Indication, if known, of preferred organization of session, e.g. 4 x 20min presentation, plus 20min discussion or 5 x 15min presentation, with 5min question for each, etc; (vii) Indication, if known for any non-standard arrangements, e.g. video-conferencing. The EGRG will confirm details of their sponsored sessions mid January 2016. Dr Sarah Marie Hall Lecturer in Human Geography University of Manchester Email: sarah.m.h...@manchester.ac.uk Telephone: 0161 275 3652 Website: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/sarah.m.hall/ Spotlight: http://www.seed.manchester.ac.uk/subjects/geography/ourpeople/staffspotlight/sarah-marie-hall/ Social & Cultural Research Group: http://www.seed.manchester.ac.uk/subjects/geography/research/research-groups/social-and-cultural-geography/ Most recent publications: Hall, S.M. (2015) 'Everyday Family Experiences of the Financial Crisis: Getting By in the Recent Economic Recession', Journal of Economic Geography, Online First. Hall, S.M. (in press) 'Personal, relational and intimate geographies of austerity: ethical and empirical considerations', Area. Hall, S.M. (forthcoming) 'Moral geographies of family: articulating, forming and transmitting moralities in everyday life', Social & Cultural Geography.
EGRG session sponsorship at RGS-IBG 2015
Apologies for cross posting The Economic Geography Research Group (EGRG) have received some great submissions for EGRG session sponsorship for the forthcoming RGS-IBG Annual International Conference in Exeter, and we have room to sponsor a couple more sessions. If you would like us to sponsor your session, please contact us with the necessary information (as detailed below) by the end of this month if possible please. CALL FOR SESSION PROPOSALS for the Economic Geography Research Group (EGRG) at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual International Conference 2015, Exeter The Committee of the Economic Geography Research Group (EGRG) would like to invite proposals for sessions to be sponsored by the EGRG at the 2015 Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) (RGS-IBG). The RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2015, which will be chaired by Professor Sarah Whatmore (University of Oxford), will have as its theme Geographies of the Anthropocene. EGRG members and those of the geographical and related communities are invited to propose sessions. We would also welcome joint sessions with other research groups. Proposals should relate to debates, literatures or approaches in economic geography (http://www.egrg.rgs.org/). Sessions may take the form of presented papers, panels, practitioner forums, discussions or workshops, and innovative sessions and formats are encouraged. Conference details Date: Wednesday 2 to Friday 4 September 2015 (with an opening event on Tuesday 1 September) Location: University of Exeter Conference Theme: The conference has a theme of 'Geographies of the anthropocene. The Anthropocene has been claimed to herald a new geological epoch in which human society is acknowledged as having become the greatest force shaping planet earth. Although its recognition as a new age in geological history remains provisional, the idea of the Anthropocene has already captured the public imagination and that of scientists, social scientists and humanities scholars variously advancing new projects, agendas and critiques in its wake. For example, it has given rise to the 'post-disciplinary' ambitions of an Earth Systems Science that presents the integrative role of geography with new challenges; it marks a radical geo-political moment in which the earth shapes new concerns and forms of public engaged in the contestation of planetary governance; and it heralds new demands on our habits of thought in which 'post-human' or 'more-than-human' modes of theorising and analysis are stretching familiar models of historical, cultural and economic analysis in new directions. This annual conference theme aims to bring all areas of the discipline to the table, including the physical geography and climate science communities, to explore the rich array of geographical work engaging this powerful idea and its consequences. Submitting Proposals for EGRG sponsored sessions Proposals for, or questions about, EGRG sponsored sessions should be sent to Sarah Marie Hall at sarah.m.h...@manchester.ac.ukmailto:sarah.m.h...@manchester.ac.uk Proposals should comprise (i) Title; (ii) Name of Co-sponsoring groups, if applicable (iii) Name and Contact Details for Session Convenors (iv) Abstract, outlining scope of session (v) Number of session timeslots that are sought - usually up to 2 timeslots per session, with each timeslot comprising 100 minutes (vi) Indication, if known, of preferred organization of session, e.g. 4 x 20min presentation, plus 20min discussion or 5 x 15min presentation, with 5min question for each, etc; (vii) Indication, if known for any non-standard arrangements, e.g. video-conferencing. The EGRG will confirm details of their sponsored sessions early in February 2015/ASAP. Dr Sarah Marie Hall Hallsworth Research Fellow and Lecturer in Human Geography, Geography, School of Environment, Education and Development The University of Manchester Email: sarah.m.h...@manchester.ac.ukmailto:sarah.m.h...@manchester.ac.uk Telephone: 0161 275 3652 Website: http://staffprofiles.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/Profile.aspx?Id=sarah.m.hall Spotlight: http://www.seed.manchester.ac.uk/subjects/geography/ourpeople/staffspotlight/sarah-marie-hall/
Reminder: 'Intergenerational and life course geographies in times of crisis' CFP, AAG 2015
This is just a reminder of our CFP for the following session - and thanks again to those who have submitted an abstract. ** Apologies for cross-posting; the topic may be of interest to some list members** 'Intergenerational and life course geographies in times of crisis' paper session AAG Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, 21-25 April 2015 Session organisers: Helena Pimlott-Wilson (Loughborough University) and Sarah Marie Hall (University of Manchester) Session Theme The global financial crisis of 2007-2009 has had catastrophic impacts on global, national, regional and local economic geographies. These impacts continue to play out in the form of job losses, pay cuts and short-hours working, depressed housing markets, public spending cuts and the rising cost of everyday goods, meaning that, for many people, the future remains somewhat bleak (JRF 2012). In particular, the impact on people's everyday lives, relationships and practices is noteworthy (see Edwards and Weller 2010), and yet commentary on the recent economic crisis and period of austerity has tended to focus more on impacts to government, financial markets and business. This session aims to raise questions about the way in which the recent period of austerity affects experiences and ideas about the life course, the future and intergenerational relations. We are interested in both current lived experiences as well as imaginaries, including transitions in education, employment, housing and relationships, and encounters that are real and felt, abstract or imagined, and in/tangible. This session will explore all aspects of intergenerationality and the life course in the context of economic crisis. Topics prospective contributors might wish to address include, but are not limited to: • critical approaches to life course aspirations; • employment, unemployment and job insecurity (past, present and future); • dimensions of the education-to-work transition including earnings, job security, occupational attainment and working conditions; • coping strategies during, and experiences of, economic change; • changing understandings of the markers of child/adulthood. Being Involved Please send your title and abstract of a maximum of 250 words by Saturday 1st November 2014 to Helena Pimlott-Wilson (h.pimlott-wil...@lboro.ac.uk) and Sarah Marie Hall (sarah.m.h...@manchester.ac.uk). We will make decisions on abstracts by 3rd November. You will need to register online and provide us with your PIN for inclusion in the session by Tuesday 4th November.
