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The New Politics of Home: public, private and the future of welfare
The Geffrye Museum of the Home, 136 Kingsland Road, London, E2 8EA
Tuesday 25 November 2013, 0930 - 1700
www.homespaceseminars.org<http://www.homespaceseminars.org>
This final symposium in this ESRC-funded series will deal with the fast-changing context of welfare state reform, the new 'austerity politics' and its impact on experiences of homespaces, belonging and homeliness in public services. Questions for the day include:
a) Home and the future spaces of welfare: as services reduce, or place greater emphasis on the unequal contexts of homes as the site of care and services; or are delivered in new kinds of spaces, what will be gained and what will be lost? What happens to issues of public and private, belonging and inequality within such contexts? What are the new relationships and subjectivities at stake? What role for 'community'?
b) Austerity and the new politics of home: within everyday experiences of austerity and service reduction, how might home life might be a site of resistance and/or coping with new economic and political climates? What forms of activism are developing, in material and online spaces? What kinds of friendships and relationships become more important in contexts of austerity? How can 'the home' be a site of critical politics?
Keynote speakers:
Professor Kim England (University of Washington)- Home, Care and the State: the spatial politics of domestic work; Emeritus Professor Marian Barnes (University of Brighton) - Care Full Alliances: Re-thinking the Politics of Care
Other speakers will include:
Rebecca Brammall (University of Brighton); Andrew Power (University of Southampton); Sophie Bowlby (University of Reading); Jenny Fisher (Manchester Metropolitan University); Alex Fox (Shared Lives), Kate Belgrave (freelance journalist); Sarah-Marie Hall (University of Manchester); Mia Vabo (Norwegian Social Research)
The event is free but places are limited. We also have a limited number of postgraduate travel bursaries available, please state if this is required upon registration.
To book your place, please email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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