Re-imagining Crisis: Pop-up Cultures and Precarious Lives in Austerity London

今天的伦敦人生活在一个“危机-普通”的时期（Berlant，2011）。在持续的紧缩措施下，贫困和不平等正在加剧。住房危机正在恶化，越来越多的人处于不稳定的就业状态。有人认为，这种危机状态正在持续下去，因为利益相关者不会接受与新自由主义模式相抵触的解决方案（Elledge，2017）。考虑到这一点，本项目审查了重新想象不稳定条件的努力，以积极地呈现它们。借鉴我现有的研究，以及通过两个新的案例研究的发展，我将产生一个专题论文，探讨如何不稳定的工作和生活方式在伦敦正在积极的品牌。具体来说，我研究了“弹出式”文化在正常化和美化不稳定性中的作用。弹出式开始是一种临时的和移动的消费和文化场所的趋势。然而，它已扩大到包括诸如临时社会住房、临时法律的援助中心、临时大学和临时保健服务等现象。在我的博士学位期间，我认为弹出式广告的重要之处在于它对城市空间和时间的独特想象。弹出拥抱城市的想法是灵活的和令人惊讶的，它包含秘密和“间隙”（在之间）的网站，这是由微型和移动的地方人口。这些想象城市的方式显然引起了广泛的利益相关者的共鸣，并吸引了他们，因为他们越来越多地被采用来推广多样化的场所，活动和服务。该项目将在普遍不稳定的时期询问与不可预测性，短暂性，非理性和中间性相关的话语的跨部门庆祝活动，认为它们的出现部分是为了合理化和补偿城市的不稳定和不安全。该专着将探讨如何弹出的话语积极地重新想象在当代伦敦在四个关键领域的不稳定性条件，在专着的四个实证章节：不稳定的劳动力，中产阶级化，在社会住房部门的临时住宿，并在私营部门的住房危机的“解决方案”。这本专著将面向广泛的读者，并针对能够在学术界内外传播这本书的出版商，如Verso，Penguin或Bloomsbury。除了专著的高影响价值外，研究金还有另外两个面向影响的目标。首先，该项目将包括与营销战略公司“Truth”合作组织一个利益相关者研讨会，探讨弹出式话语如何在不同部门（住房、劳动力、场所重塑）部署。受邀的利益相关者将包括开发商、建筑师、大伦敦议会成员、地方议会和弹出式空间管理公司。研讨会将围绕弹出式话语的影响展开辩论，并使我的工作能够影响利益相关者。第二，我将建立一个多媒体项目网站，在整个项目中传播我的研究结果和想法，并容纳其他学者和感兴趣的各方的相关工作和回应。该网站将成为利益相关者和公众参与项目的一个方便途径，并成为发展学术和非学术网络的一种手段。除了创建项目社交媒体账户来推广网站外，我还将动员我现有的文化和城市地理学学者网络，地方议会，大学和社会研究团体，i-tourism学者和Guardian Cities的联系人通过他们的媒体账户分享它。金史密斯的方法实验室和SLOM：实验室（丽贝卡科尔曼在这两个实验室中发挥了主导作用）将协助宣传和推广该网站作为一种创新的方法和影响工具。作为实物支持，真理将促进网站和功能信息对我的项目在自己的网站上。

Londoners today inhabit a period of 'crisis-ordinary' (Berlant, 2011). Under on-going austerity measures, poverty and inequality are rising. The housing crisis is worsening and more people are in precarious employment. It has been argued that this state of crisis is being perpetuated because stakeholders won't entertain solutions that contest the neoliberal model (Elledge, 2017). With this in mind, this project examines efforts at re-imagining precarious conditions to present them positively. Drawing on my existing research, as well as through the development of two new case studies, I will produce a monograph that examines how precarious ways of working and living in London are being branded positively. Specifically, I examine the role of "pop-up" culture in normalising and glamorising precarity.Pop-up started as a trend for temporary and mobile places of consumption and culture. However, it has expanded to include phenomenon such as pop-up social housing, pop-up legal aid centres, pop-up universities and pop-up health care services. In my PhD I argued that what is important about pop-up is its particular imaginations of urban space and time. Pop-up embraces the idea of a city that is flexible and surprising, that contains secret and "interstitial" (in-between) sites, and that is populated by micro and mobile places. These ways of imagining the city clearly resonate with and appeal to a wide variety of stakeholders, as they are increasingly adopted to promote diverse places, events and services. This project will interrogate the cross-sector celebration of discourses associated with unpredictability, ephemerality, miniaturisation and in-between-ness at a time of widespread precarity, arguing that they have emerged, in part, to rationalize and compensate for instability and insecurity in the city. The monograph will explore how pop-up's discourses positively re-imagine conditions of precarity in contemporary London across four key areas, examined in the monograph's four empirical chapters: precarious labour, gentrification, temporary accommodation in the social housing sector, and 'solutions' to the housing crisis in the private sector. The monograph will be written for a broad audience and targeted at publishers such as Verso, Penguin or Bloomsbury who can disseminate the book within and beyond academia. As well as the high impact value of the monograph, the Fellowship has two other impact orientated objectives. Firstly, the project will include the organization of a stakeholder workshop, in collaboration with the marketing strategy company 'Truth', which will explore how pop-up's discourses are deployed in different sectors (housing, labour, place rebranding). Invited stakeholder will include developers, architects, members of the Greater London Assembly, local councils and pop-up space management companies. The workshop will generate debate around the impacts of pop-up's discourses and enable my work to influence stakeholders. Secondly, I will develop a multimedia project website to disseminate my findings and ideas throughout the project, as well as to host relevant work and responses from other scholars and interested parties.The website will be an accessible way for stakeholders and members of the public to engage with the project, as well as a means by which to develop academic and non-academic networks. As well as creating project social media accounts to promote the website I will mobilise my existing networks of scholars within Cultural and Urban Geography, local councils, university and society research groups, scholars of i-Docs and contacts at Guardian Cities to share it via their media accounts. The Methods Lab at Goldsmiths and the SLOM:LAB (both of which Rebecca Coleman has leading roles in) will assist with publicizing and promoting the website as an innovative methodology and impact tool. As in kind support, Truth will promote the website and feature information about my project on their own website.