Dear All,
Particularly for those of you in the North East of England, you may be interested in attending our next Geography departmental research seminar at Northumbria University.
We are delighted to annouce that Dr. Eleanor Jupp from the University of Kent will be presenting her paper entitled:
'Gender, Austerity and Activism'
This paper will argue that ‘austerity’ has not taken hold in the UK as collective mood or atmosphere in the ways predicted by earlier commentators (eg Clarke and Newman 2012). Rather state retrenchment and economic insecurity have mostly been experienced in an increasingly privatised and fragmented way; framed partly by the widespread ‘othering’ in media and policy discourses of those most affected, but also by the personal and embodied nature of its impacts (food, illness, work, housing). Against this background the paper explores the notion of a set of gendered political responses to austerity, drawing on longer traditions of analysis of how women in marginalised communities enter and sustain activism across conventionally public and private boundaries (eg Staeheli et al 2004). The paper draws on examples of young women as housing activists and from fieldwork with migrant women in London to explore the potentials and limitations for forms of collective action and activism based on gendered registers of vulnerability and trauma and everyday practices of care and coping.
The seminar will take place on Wednesday 9th March at 1pm in Room A008, Ellison Building (Ground Floor), Northumbria University, Ellison Place, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE1 8ST.
All the best
John
Dr. John Clayton
Senior Lecturer Human Geography
Deaprtment of Geography
Northumbria University
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
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