{"id":306,"date":"2014-09-30T14:02:14","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T13:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/alisonstenning\/?p=306"},"modified":"2015-09-08T14:36:22","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T13:36:22","slug":"more-social-geography-of-austerityrecession-links-and-references","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/alisonstenning\/more-social-geography-of-austerityrecession-links-and-references\/","title":{"rendered":"More social geography of austerity\/recession links and references"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is mostly info for GEO2110 Social Geographies\u00a0<\/strong>students at Newcastle University but I’m very happy for others to use and circulate it too. For now, it’s a fairly random set of links to work, academic and more popular, that I’ve come across recently.<\/p>\n

Mary O’Hara’s book Austerity Bites\u00a0<\/em>“chronicles the true impact of austerity on people at the sharp end, based on her \u2018real-time\u2019 12-month journey around the country just as the most radical reforms were being rolled out in 2012 and 2013” (see her webpage<\/a>). Her Guardian page <\/a>has links to all sorts of different articles on related issues (welfare, legal aid, disability, mental health etc.). You can also follow Mary on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Whilst we’re focused on The Guardian<\/em>, a reminder about Patrick Butler’s articles<\/a>. Patrick is The<\/em>\u00a0Guardian<\/em>‘s editor of society, health and education policy.\u00a0He can be followed on Twitter<\/a> too.<\/p>\n

I’ve focused on the ‘bedroom tax’ a bit myself: here is a report by Insa Koch<\/a>, Assistant Professor in Law and Anthropology at the LSE, titled\u00a0\u2018A policy that kills\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A major research project based at Bristol University, in collaboration with Liverpool John Moores University,\u00a0is exploring “The uneven impact of the global economic recession and austerity on places and people: Bristol and Liverpool compared<\/a>“. Their website has links to findings so far (such as this<\/a>)\u00a0and a range of background documents, including a review of ‘grey literatures’ on the\u00a0“Impact of the Recession and Period of Austerity on Households<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

A series of seminars are being organised by Middlesex University, and partners, around the theme of Work-Life Balance in the Recession and Beyond<\/a>. Their website includes copies of papers and presentations from the seminars, and from related events (such as this <\/a>on “Work-Life Balance in Times of Financial Crisis and Austerity in Europe”).<\/p>\n

Professor Clare Bambra<\/a>, from Durham University, has written extensively on health inequalities in a time of austerity. This<\/a> from Class<\/a>\u00a0(a\u00a0thinktank on the\u00a0left)\u00a0is a good example, but you can find more references and links on her website.<\/p>\n

The charity Gingerbread has research the effect of austerity on single parents in a project called “Paying the price: Single parents in the age of austerity<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

Stephen Crossley (Durham University) and Tom Slater (Edinburgh) have just published a blog\/article on “Benefits Street: territorial stigmatisation and the realization of a \u2018(tele)vision of divisions\u2019<\/a>” which reflects on the way right-wing commentators have engaged with the TV programme Benefits Street<\/em> and other versions of ‘poverty porn’. On this theme, it’s also worth looking at Tracey Jensen’s\u00a0“Welfare Commonsense, Poverty Porn and Doxosophy<\/a>“, “Thinking with ‘White Dee’: The Gender Politics of ‘Austerity Porn’<\/a>” by Kim Allen, Imogen Tyler and Sara De Benedictis, and other papers in the same special issue of Sociological Research Online<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’ll keep adding to this as I find more to link to, so check back occasionally.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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