Austerity + Altered Life-Courses
@austerityalters.bsky.social
life-courses & futures | austerity & crisis | europe | creative oral histories | solidarity infrastructure | anti-poverty | Uni of Manchester | UKRI funded 2021-2029 🍞🌹
https://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centre/research/austerityalters/
https://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centre/research/austerityalters/
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Brings a whole new meaning to "Bread & Roses"!
Speaking of, a small group of us have been coming together for c2yrs as the Bread & Roses Collective to think about radical care and activism in an unequal world.
We have a logo and blurb: @austerityalters site will be updated soon with more info 🍞🌹
Speaking of, a small group of us have been coming together for c2yrs as the Bread & Roses Collective to think about radical care and activism in an unequal world.
We have a logo and blurb: @austerityalters site will be updated soon with more info 🍞🌹
ICYMI: Georg Simmel, 'Roses: A Social Hypothesis' - Simmel’s fairy tale tells the story of the emergence of a sense of grievance about differences in the ability to grow roses which became constructed as a ‘terrible inequality’. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Roses: A Social Hypothesis - Georg Simmel, 2021
First published in 1897 in the avant-garde journal Jugend, Simmel’s fairy tale tells the story of the emergence of a sense of grievance about differences in the...
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August 15, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Brings a whole new meaning to "Bread & Roses"!
Speaking of, a small group of us have been coming together for c2yrs as the Bread & Roses Collective to think about radical care and activism in an unequal world.
We have a logo and blurb: @austerityalters site will be updated soon with more info 🍞🌹
Speaking of, a small group of us have been coming together for c2yrs as the Bread & Roses Collective to think about radical care and activism in an unequal world.
We have a logo and blurb: @austerityalters site will be updated soon with more info 🍞🌹
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Just published this article 🥳.
Research on food aid is always important but there is more to food aid thank food banks. As seen in this paper. Please share my article 🙏 or give it a 👍.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Research on food aid is always important but there is more to food aid thank food banks. As seen in this paper. Please share my article 🙏 or give it a 👍.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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August 1, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Just published this article 🥳.
Research on food aid is always important but there is more to food aid thank food banks. As seen in this paper. Please share my article 🙏 or give it a 👍.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Research on food aid is always important but there is more to food aid thank food banks. As seen in this paper. Please share my article 🙏 or give it a 👍.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Dead chuffed to say that @austerityalters.bsky.social has been funded for another 3yrs (2026-29) with a focus on co-creating spaces, stories & solidarities. Think creative sharing, collective future-making, solidarity infrastructure and more. Will share further details soon x
July 24, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Dead chuffed to say that @austerityalters.bsky.social has been funded for another 3yrs (2026-29) with a focus on co-creating spaces, stories & solidarities. Think creative sharing, collective future-making, solidarity infrastructure and more. Will share further details soon x
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This time last week we were delighted to support the @austerityalters.bsky.social Anti-Poverty Chats for Change, a brilliant lunch meeting for communities, practitioners & @manchester.ac.uk peeps to explore how to act together on vital anti-poverty ambitions
#fairerhealthforall #healthierfuturesuom
#fairerhealthforall #healthierfuturesuom
June 25, 2025 at 4:09 PM
This time last week we were delighted to support the @austerityalters.bsky.social Anti-Poverty Chats for Change, a brilliant lunch meeting for communities, practitioners & @manchester.ac.uk peeps to explore how to act together on vital anti-poverty ambitions
#fairerhealthforall #healthierfuturesuom
#fairerhealthforall #healthierfuturesuom
Last week we had our Anti-Poverty Chats for Change, a lunch event bringing together community, policy+uni folk in Manchester. Together we explored how to galvanise A-P change, working collectively+creatively. Here's our winning create plate by Terri Lucas! If you want to know more, get in touch! 🍽🖍
June 24, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Last week we had our Anti-Poverty Chats for Change, a lunch event bringing together community, policy+uni folk in Manchester. Together we explored how to galvanise A-P change, working collectively+creatively. Here's our winning create plate by Terri Lucas! If you want to know more, get in touch! 🍽🖍
Tomorrow we'll be in Neuchâtel presenting some emerging ideas on young people, migration and housing in the context of austerity. Looking forward to the other talks and generating new ideas 💡
June 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Tomorrow we'll be in Neuchâtel presenting some emerging ideas on young people, migration and housing in the context of austerity. Looking forward to the other talks and generating new ideas 💡
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This conference looks like just the ticket: A Feminist Politics of Radical Hope in Times of Oppression.
And it's in Liverpool!
See you there? X
And it's in Liverpool!
See you there? X
CfPs 'A feminist politics of radical hope in a time of oppression' now open details lexnetwork.org under #events Open to all @meredithjones.bsky.social @jillmccorkel.bsky.social @lauraportuondo.bsky.social @daniellecitron.bsky.social @maggieoneill.bsky.social 1/2
April 29, 2025 at 8:51 AM
This conference looks like just the ticket: A Feminist Politics of Radical Hope in Times of Oppression.
And it's in Liverpool!
See you there? X
And it's in Liverpool!
See you there? X
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This arrived the other day! Paperback! Available from 20th of this month and much more affordable at £28.99. 30 brilliant chapters on contemporary economic geographies, and all written by female and non-binary authors.
May 2, 2025 at 2:17 PM
This arrived the other day! Paperback! Available from 20th of this month and much more affordable at £28.99. 30 brilliant chapters on contemporary economic geographies, and all written by female and non-binary authors.
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New blog series alert - how austerity alters disabled people's lives + futures.
-Open to all: researchers, activitists, lived experts.
-Your blog will be received with care + consideration. -You'll be supported to publication on our website & we will promote it on social media and our news list.
✊️🩷
-Open to all: researchers, activitists, lived experts.
-Your blog will be received with care + consideration. -You'll be supported to publication on our website & we will promote it on social media and our news list.
✊️🩷
📢✏️As well as publishing the final blog of series two (socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centr...) we can now share an exciting update about series THREE, which explores 'How austerity alters disabled people’s lives + futures: intersectional understandings in research, policy, + practice'
April 16, 2025 at 12:04 PM
New blog series alert - how austerity alters disabled people's lives + futures.
-Open to all: researchers, activitists, lived experts.
-Your blog will be received with care + consideration. -You'll be supported to publication on our website & we will promote it on social media and our news list.
✊️🩷
-Open to all: researchers, activitists, lived experts.
-Your blog will be received with care + consideration. -You'll be supported to publication on our website & we will promote it on social media and our news list.
✊️🩷
📢✏️As well as publishing the final blog of series two (socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centr...) we can now share an exciting update about series THREE, which explores 'How austerity alters disabled people’s lives + futures: intersectional understandings in research, policy, + practice'
April 15, 2025 at 12:12 PM
📢✏️As well as publishing the final blog of series two (socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centr...) we can now share an exciting update about series THREE, which explores 'How austerity alters disabled people’s lives + futures: intersectional understandings in research, policy, + practice'
We are very pleased to share the final blog of series 2 by Prof. John H. McKendrick, on 'Futility and necessity: reflecting on an academic life researching poverty'. Thank you for your brilliant, reflective contribution to the series. To read John's blog, see below for the link.
April 15, 2025 at 12:04 PM
We are very pleased to share the final blog of series 2 by Prof. John H. McKendrick, on 'Futility and necessity: reflecting on an academic life researching poverty'. Thank you for your brilliant, reflective contribution to the series. To read John's blog, see below for the link.
This past year, we've been working closely with 3 ace community partners to co-create anti-poverty strategies in Manchester.
Our framework for how to work together & toolkit for policy-makers are now on our website:
www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centr...
Please use and share widely!
Our framework for how to work together & toolkit for policy-makers are now on our website:
www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centr...
Please use and share widely!
February 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM
This past year, we've been working closely with 3 ace community partners to co-create anti-poverty strategies in Manchester.
Our framework for how to work together & toolkit for policy-makers are now on our website:
www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centr...
Please use and share widely!
Our framework for how to work together & toolkit for policy-makers are now on our website:
www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centr...
Please use and share widely!
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Austerity policies have a huge impact on young adults in Europe, including their sense of the future. Adopting a life-course perspective, we explore how place-based experiences of austerity shape temporalities and normative ideas of life transitions, introducing the concept of 'foreclosed futures'.
We've a new paper out today on Austere Life-Courses and Foreclosed Futures in @dialogueshg.bsky.social. Read for free here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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February 6, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Austerity policies have a huge impact on young adults in Europe, including their sense of the future. Adopting a life-course perspective, we explore how place-based experiences of austerity shape temporalities and normative ideas of life transitions, introducing the concept of 'foreclosed futures'.
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Come and say hello on the 19th!
February 6, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Come and say hello on the 19th!
We've a new paper out today on Austere Life-Courses and Foreclosed Futures in @dialogueshg.bsky.social. Read for free here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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February 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
We've a new paper out today on Austere Life-Courses and Foreclosed Futures in @dialogueshg.bsky.social. Read for free here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Back on the other place, I developed a thread about how pieces on child poverty were regularly illustrated with images of children playing in their neighbourhoods, yet play (deprivation) rarely features in mainstream discussions of child poverty.
Here’s another example.
Here’s another example.
February 3, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Back on the other place, I developed a thread about how pieces on child poverty were regularly illustrated with images of children playing in their neighbourhoods, yet play (deprivation) rarely features in mainstream discussions of child poverty.
Here’s another example.
Here’s another example.
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Anyone interested in public funding cuts and council service crises - housing, SEND, care services etc:
Kate Belgrave, who's been covering this stuff longer than me, has launched a podcast focused on how cuts affect people... aptly called Who Voted For This: whovotedforthis.buzzsprout.com/2414550
Kate Belgrave, who's been covering this stuff longer than me, has launched a podcast focused on how cuts affect people... aptly called Who Voted For This: whovotedforthis.buzzsprout.com/2414550
Who voted for this
Interviews with people dealing with housing problems and welfare cuts. Dislike for those who let it all happen.Kate Belgrave Journalist and bloggerHomepage photos courtesy of Latoya, the mother of the...
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February 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Anyone interested in public funding cuts and council service crises - housing, SEND, care services etc:
Kate Belgrave, who's been covering this stuff longer than me, has launched a podcast focused on how cuts affect people... aptly called Who Voted For This: whovotedforthis.buzzsprout.com/2414550
Kate Belgrave, who's been covering this stuff longer than me, has launched a podcast focused on how cuts affect people... aptly called Who Voted For This: whovotedforthis.buzzsprout.com/2414550
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Direct action works, and there is strength in community solidarity!
I’d urge everyone to consider joining their local @acornunion.bsky.social, and I’m happy to chat all things Newcastle if anyone has questions.
www.acorntheunion.org.uk/join
I’d urge everyone to consider joining their local @acornunion.bsky.social, and I’m happy to chat all things Newcastle if anyone has questions.
www.acorntheunion.org.uk/join
Join
ACORN, the union in the community.
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February 3, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Direct action works, and there is strength in community solidarity!
I’d urge everyone to consider joining their local @acornunion.bsky.social, and I’m happy to chat all things Newcastle if anyone has questions.
www.acorntheunion.org.uk/join
I’d urge everyone to consider joining their local @acornunion.bsky.social, and I’m happy to chat all things Newcastle if anyone has questions.
www.acorntheunion.org.uk/join
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A new PhD opportunity just landed with our good friends @childrensrightsqub.bsky.social who we've been working with alongside @savethechildrenni.bsky.social to understand the impact of #SocialSecurity on children's experiences of poverty. It's time to hear from children themselves:
t.co/BtYhyM91Ms
t.co/BtYhyM91Ms
https://www.qub.ac.uk/Study/funding-scholarships/ahss/SchoolofSocialSciencesEducationandSocialWork/Developingachild-informedmeasureofchildpoverty.html#overview
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February 3, 2025 at 8:26 PM
A new PhD opportunity just landed with our good friends @childrensrightsqub.bsky.social who we've been working with alongside @savethechildrenni.bsky.social to understand the impact of #SocialSecurity on children's experiences of poverty. It's time to hear from children themselves:
t.co/BtYhyM91Ms
t.co/BtYhyM91Ms
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Of House and Immigrants
In this contribution to the upcoming ISRF Bulletin 31, Theresa Audrey O. Esteban reflects on how post-war #Rotterdam's urban geography and political climate shifted in response to changing #migration patterns.
isrf.org/blog/of-hous...
In this contribution to the upcoming ISRF Bulletin 31, Theresa Audrey O. Esteban reflects on how post-war #Rotterdam's urban geography and political climate shifted in response to changing #migration patterns.
isrf.org/blog/of-hous...
Of House and Immigrants
In this contribution to Bulletin 31, Theresa Audrey O. Esteban reflects on how post-war Rotterdam's urban geography and political climate shifted in response to changing migration patterns.
isrf.org
January 22, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Of House and Immigrants
In this contribution to the upcoming ISRF Bulletin 31, Theresa Audrey O. Esteban reflects on how post-war #Rotterdam's urban geography and political climate shifted in response to changing #migration patterns.
isrf.org/blog/of-hous...
In this contribution to the upcoming ISRF Bulletin 31, Theresa Audrey O. Esteban reflects on how post-war #Rotterdam's urban geography and political climate shifted in response to changing #migration patterns.
isrf.org/blog/of-hous...
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📢 FINAL CALL Gender and Justice seeks a suitably qualified senior feminist academic to join the existing team as Co-editor-in-chief. Details 👇@
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/gen... @sharronfitz.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social @stinewadrian.bsky.social
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/gen... @sharronfitz.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social @stinewadrian.bsky.social
January 26, 2025 at 10:40 AM
📢 FINAL CALL Gender and Justice seeks a suitably qualified senior feminist academic to join the existing team as Co-editor-in-chief. Details 👇@
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/gen... @sharronfitz.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social @stinewadrian.bsky.social
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/gen... @sharronfitz.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social @stinewadrian.bsky.social
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What’s it like to be 25 in Ireland today? 70% live at home with their parents, CSO finds
Read more: www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...
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January 28, 2025 at 10:34 AM
What’s it like to be 25 in Ireland today? 70% live at home with their parents, CSO finds
Read more: www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...
Read more: www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...
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🌸 My project has a home! 🌸
🔎 Everyday social reproduction, life stories, intimate spaces, relationships and communities.
Read more on the project's aims, methodology and outputs and stay updated on news ⤵️
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🔎 Everyday social reproduction, life stories, intimate spaces, relationships and communities.
Read more on the project's aims, methodology and outputs and stay updated on news ⤵️
urbancountertopographies.wordpress.com
Home
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February 3, 2025 at 9:20 AM
🌸 My project has a home! 🌸
🔎 Everyday social reproduction, life stories, intimate spaces, relationships and communities.
Read more on the project's aims, methodology and outputs and stay updated on news ⤵️
urbancountertopographies.wordpress.com
🔎 Everyday social reproduction, life stories, intimate spaces, relationships and communities.
Read more on the project's aims, methodology and outputs and stay updated on news ⤵️
urbancountertopographies.wordpress.com
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A second piece out today in The Big Issue by @hannahjtw.bsky.social ft yours truly, continuing to push the government & DWP about austerity + winter fuel cuts.
✊️ @austerityalters.bsky.social
www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
✊️ @austerityalters.bsky.social
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November 24, 2024 at 9:25 AM
A second piece out today in The Big Issue by @hannahjtw.bsky.social ft yours truly, continuing to push the government & DWP about austerity + winter fuel cuts.
✊️ @austerityalters.bsky.social
www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
✊️ @austerityalters.bsky.social
www.bigissue.com/news/social-...