As in previous years, I’m updating my reading list for the Newcastle Stage 2 module on Social Geographies (GEO2110) and am uploading the references and links here for ease of access, and so that others can use this too.<\/p>\n
The usual disclaimer that I can’t cover everything here and I’m sure I’ve missed some great stuff. Please do let me know of things I can add.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Previous versions of this list\u00a0are accessible here<\/a>,\u00a0here<\/a>, and here<\/a>. Note that some of the links for the policy reports are broken but all of the reports are still available – you can Google the report titles and find the updated links.<\/p>\n New academic work (late 2015 or 2016)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n (As more and more academic work has been published on austerity, I’ve focused more on the explicitly geographical work here, but there will be a lot of relevant work in the other social sciences too. If you have references to any other relevant work, please do let me know and I’ll add it – alison.stenning@ncl.ac.uk)<\/p>\n Bambra, C. (2016) Health Divides: Where You Live Can Kill You<\/a>, Policy Press. (See also the supporting website: Health Divides<\/a>.)<\/p>\n Brown, G. (2015) Marriage and the spare bedroom: Exploring the sexual politics of austerity,\u00a0ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies<\/em><\/a>,\u00a014(4), 975-988.<\/p>\n Garthwaite, K. (2016) Hunger Pains: Life inside Foodbank Britain<\/em><\/a>, Policy Press. (See also a Guardian<\/a><\/em> piece by Kayleigh which introduces some of the themes of her book.)<\/p>\n Garthwaite, K. (2016)\u00a0Stigma, shame and \u2018people like us\u2019: an ethnographic study of foodbank use in the UK,\u00a0Journal of Poverty and Social Justice<\/i><\/a>, Fast Track.<\/p>\n Greer Murphy, A. (2016) Austerity in the United Kingdom: the intersections of spatial and gendered inequalities,\u00a0Area<\/em><\/a>, Early View.<\/p>\n Hall, S. M. (2016) Personal, relational and intimate geographies of austerity: ethical and empirical considerations,\u00a0Area<\/a><\/em>, Early View.<\/p>\n Hall, S. M., & Jayne, M. (2016) Make, mend and befriend: geographies of austerity, crafting and friendship in contemporary cultures of dressmaking in the UK,\u00a0Gender, Place & Culture<\/em><\/a>,\u00a023(2), 216-234.<\/p>\n Hall, S.\u00a0(2017)\u00a0Family relations in times of austerity: Reflections from the UK<\/a>, in Punch, S. and Vanderbeck, R. (eds.)\u00a0Families, Intergenerationality, and Peer Group Relations: Geographies of Children and Young People <\/em>(Vol. 5), Springer-Verlag (follow link from my blog)<\/p>\n Holdsworth, C. (2015) The cult of experience: standing out from the crowd in an era of austerity,\u00a0Area<\/i><\/a>, Early View.<\/p>\n Horton, J. (2015) Young people and debt: getting on with austerities,\u00a0Area<\/em><\/a>, Early View.<\/p>\n Horton, J. (2016) Anticipating service withdrawal: young people in spaces of neoliberalisation, austerity and economic crisis,\u00a0Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers<\/a><\/em>, Early View.<\/p>\n Jupp, E. (2016) Families, policy and place in times of austerity, Area<\/a><\/em>, Early View.<\/p>\n Lambie\u2010Mumford, H., & Green, M. A. (2015) Austerity, welfare reform and the rising use of food banks by children in England and Wales,\u00a0Area<\/i><\/a>, Early View.<\/p>\n McDowell, L. (2014) The sexual contract, youth, masculinity and the uncertain promise of waged work in austerity Britain,\u00a0Australian Feminist Studies<\/em><\/a>,\u00a029(79), 31-49.<\/p>\n McDowell, L. (2016) Youth, children and families in austere times: change, politics and a new gender contract, Area<\/em><\/a>, Early View.<\/p>\n Morse, N. and Munro, E. (2015) Museums’ community engagement schemes, austerity and practices of care in two local museum services,\u00a0Social & Cultural Geography<\/em><\/a>, 1-22.<\/p>\n Patrick, R. (2016) Living with and responding to the \u2018scrounger\u2019 narrative in the UK: exploring everyday strategies of acceptance, resistance and deflection,\u00a0Journal of Poverty and Social Justice<\/i><\/a>, Fast Track.<\/p>\n Power, A. (2016) Disability, (auto) mobility and austerity: shrinking horizons and spaces of refuge,\u00a0Disability & Society<\/em><\/a>,\u00a031(2), 280-284.<\/p>\n Williams, A., Cloke, P., May, J., & Goodwin, M. (2016) Contested space: The contradictory political dynamics of food banking in the UK,\u00a0Environment and Planning A<\/em><\/a>, Online Before Print.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research<\/strong> at Sheffield Hallam University recently completed a research project on The Uneven Impact of Welfare Reform<\/a>. The final report is available to download here<\/a>\u00a0and a series of maps here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Amy Greer Murphy, a Geography PhD student at Durham, has compiled this list on\u00a0Austerity & Welfare Reform in UK<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Film, TV and Radio<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Ken Loach’s new film, I, Daniel Blake<\/strong>, focuses on austerity and welfare reform and is set in Newcastle<\/a>. It won the Palme D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. There’s a trailer here<\/a>, and you can find numerous reviews online. It opens in cinemas on October 21st. The synopsis explains:<\/p>\n “Daniel Blake, 59, who has worked as a joiner most of his life in the North East of England needs help from the State for the first time ever following an illness.\u00a0He crosses paths with a single mother Katie and her two young children, Daisy and Dylan. Katie\u2019s only chance to escape a one roomed homeless hostel in London is to accept a flat some 300 miles away.\u00a0Daniel and Katie find themselves in no-man\u2019s land caught on the barbed wire of welfare bureaucracy now played out against the rhetoric of \u2018striver and skiver\u2019 in modern day Britain.”<\/p>\n The Divide<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0tells the story of 7 individuals striving for a better life in the modern day US and UK, including a care worker from Newcastle.\u00a0The film is inspired by the book The Spirit Level<\/strong> by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett. There are screenings across the UK over the coming months – nothing planned for Newcastle at the moment.<\/p>\n BBC Panorama<\/strong> produced a film about cuts in Selby, North Yorkshire, called Living with Cuts: Austerity Town<\/em>. You can watch it here<\/a>. There’s a BBC News article about it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Recent\u00a0reports<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The Women’s Budget Group<\/strong> have produced “A cumulative gender impact assessment of ten years of austerity policies<\/a>” (March 2016).<\/p>\n A NatCen\u00a0British Social Attitudes<\/strong> report on “Britain Divided? Public Attitudes after Seven Years of Austerity<\/a>” (June 2016).<\/p>\n The British Medical Association<\/strong>‘s report on “Health in All Policies: Health, Austerity and Welfare Reform<\/a>” (August 2016).<\/p>\n The Joseph Rowntree Foundation<\/strong>‘s report on Falling Short: The Experience of Families below the Minimum Income Standard<\/a>; they estimate that 1 in 3 UK families lives below the Minimum Income Standard.<\/p>\n In June 2016, there was considerable media coverage of a United Nations report<\/strong> deemed to be a damning indictment of the UK’s austerity policies, declaring them to be a human rights violation.\u00a0You can see reports here from\u00a0The New Statesman<\/a>,\u00a0The Independent<\/a>\u00a0and from Just Fair<\/a>, the consortium of social justice organisations who submitted evidence to the UN.\u00a0And there are many others which you can search for.<\/p>\n The Institute for Fiscal Studies<\/strong> reported in May 2016 that “Brexit could add two years to austerity<\/a>“. If you search for IFS, Brexit and austerity, you’ll find various accounts of the report and its findings.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Austerity and recession in the North East<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n For GEO2110 Social Geographies first assessment, these are the links to the ‘storified’ tweets from 2014<\/a>. You can find the Twitter account for the module @geo2110NCL<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As in previous years, I’m updating my reading list for the Newcastle Stage 2 module on Social Geographies (GEO2110) and am uploading the references and links here for ease of access, and so that others can use this too. The … Continue reading