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CALL FOR PAPERSConference of Irish GeographersUniversity College Cork, IrelandThursday 4th of May to Saturday 6th of May 2017Lived spaces of austerity: encounters and experiences in everyday lifeSander van Lanen, University College Cork[log in to unmask]
Ireland is recovering from the 2008 economic crisis. However, the disruptions caused by years of austerity and recession left a legacy haunting the island at least into the near future. It is widely understood that the effects of austerity are socially and spatially uneven, and the crisis created new geographies of inequality and intensified spatial injustice. Lately, geographers have begun dealing with the lived experiences of austerity, emphasising the individual and affective impacts of austerity on lived space (e.g. Hall, 2015). This approach facilitates the interrogation of the quotidian effects of austerity beyond economy and income, and is sensitive to the changing meanings of everyday spaces and the spatially and socially mediated encounters of austerity. This session seeks to explore the lived realities of austerity in Ireland, and the socio-spatial diversities that create, mediate, and transform the experiences of everyday life under austerity. As such, it hopes to begin to understand and engage the disrupted places, lives, and futures of the everyday in austerity Ireland.This session welcomes contributions investigating the interactions of austerity with space and identity – gender, race, sexuality, and class - , urban and rural specificities, the re-imagining of space and place, and its entanglements with other spatial processes and forms. Furthermore, submissions on new methods to research ‘in’ and ‘on’ austerity are welcome. Together, these papers will form the basis for understanding the geographically diverse cultures of austerity in the Irish context.Please send your proposed title and abstract (about 200 words) to Sander van Lanen ([log in to unmask]) before Friday the 24th of March.More details on conference/registration: