Apologies for cross posting,

this is the latest workshop in the Austerity Futures? series.

best wishes

Alex
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Dr. Alex Wilkie

Department of Design
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross, London
SE14 6NW, UK

Tel: +44 (0)20 7078 5184
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From: ANDERSON B. <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Subject: Austerity and Crisis/Emergency
Date: 15 May 2014 12:01:00 BST
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Reply-To: ANDERSON B. <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>

Dear all,



CFP below for an informal workshop on the theme of 'Austerity and Crisis/Emergency' that a few of us are organising in Durham as part of an ESRC seminar series on 'Austere Futures'. Details of the series below:



http://www.austerityfutures.org.uk/



Please get in contact with me by the 21st may with expressions of interest (no need for full abstracts) if you are interested in contributing to the workshop (there are some funds for travel).



We're particularly, but certainly not exclusively, interested in work that explores the link between ways of governing through austerity and framings of crisis/emergency, and in work that explores the differential lived experiences of austerity measures and policies (and how those experiences question distinctions between crisis/emergency and normality).



best wishes,



Ben
Dr Ben Anderson
Department of Geography



Book: Encountering Affect: Capacities, Apparatuses, Conditions
http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754670247



Leverhulme Trust 'Governing Emergencies' Network
http://governingemergencies.org/




Austerity and Crisis/Emergency
Department of Geography, Durham University
30th June
11.00-18.00
The fifth seminar in the ESRC seminar series on ‘Austerity Futures: Imagining and Materialising the Future in an ‘Age of Austerity’’ will hone in on the relation between austerity and crisis and emergency – where crisis and emergency are understood as both material and affective conditions lived unevenly and as specific ways of rendering events and situations governable. A range of recent work has mapped how austerity emerged, or was returned to and reconfigured, in the midst of a translation of a fiscal crisis into a state crisis and crisis of the state. After this translation, and as diverse austerity futures are made present, the seminar explores how austerity depends on claims about crisis or emergency and generates a sense of everyday crisis or emergency – that is particular ways of imagining and materialising the future that are part of austerity as discourse, structure of feeling or atmosphere, elite project of state restructuring and lived condition.
Specific questions will include: How have versions of crisis and emergency been used to justify and legitimise the resource and expectation shrinkage that is austerity? Given the state restructuring associated with austerity, how are emergency and crisis connected to new ways of governing life? For example, has welfare provision become a matter of temporary emergency relief or has city governance become a matter of emergency management? In what ways are the lines between crisis/emergency and the everyday erased, reproduced, fractured or non-existent as austerity measures and austerity as atmosphere becomes part of everyday lives? How is austerity justified through stigma and processes of stigmatisation, for example? What purchase do concepts that reconfigure the temporality of crisis and emergency have to understand the lived experience of austere futures? How does the sense of urgency that can infuse crisis or emergency relate to the sacrificial logic of austerity as a discourse and affective fact? What political moods or atmospheres – such as the predictably unpredictability that some associate with precarity - are shared between austerity and at least some versions of crisis and emergency? How have crisis and emergency been used by states to govern protests and other forms of anti-austerity dissent, as well as anticipate and pre-empt post-austerity alternatives? Finally, how do counter movements to austerity draw on and reproduce ideas of crisis and emergency? And what is at stake in using and reproducing the vocabulary of crisis and emergency when critiquing austerity?



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