Austerity and Altered Life-Courses: Socio-Political Ruptures to Family, Employment and Housing Biographies Across Europe

紧缩政策和改变的生活方式：整个欧洲家庭、就业和住房传记的社会政治破裂

• 批准号: MR/T043261/1
• 负责人: Sarah Hall
• 金额: $ 155.85万
• 依托单位: University of Manchester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR%2FT043261%2F1
• 关键词: Austerity; Altered; Life; Courses; Socio

Austerity and the global economic crisis have had direct and devastating impacts on young people's life-course biographies across Europe since 2008. This has been particularly acute for those now aged 35 and under, experiencing significant disruption ('socio-political ruptures') throughout their formative years. This includes interconnected impacts on family childbearing decisions, employment opportunities, and housing arrangements. These vary depending on context. To investigate these issues, this project is focused on three European devolved or autonomous regions: Greater Manchester (UK), Barcelona Province (Catalonia, Spain) and Sardinia (Italy).A growing body of academic and policy related research on the lived experiences of austerity and economic crisis considers the impact on young people's futures. However, less understood by academics and policy-makers are the interconnections between socio-political ruptures for/within life-course biographies of young people. A lack of understanding about intersecting socio-political ruptures is also mirrored in policy and government silos, whereby housing, family and employment policies and departments are rarely integrated. There is also a need to embed life-course perspectives into policy-making, to better account for how the social life of policy (such as austerity) has impacts that are felt on the ground long after implementation. As a form of redress, this project proposes thinking about austerity not as a point in time, society or space, but as constantly being formed and reshaped, and in dialogue with experiences, histories and futures. This project provides the necessary conceptual novelty and empirical innovation to address these complex issues. It does so by synthesising and extending conceptual approaches from across social science disciplines, developing creative methodological tools, and co-designing regional policy recommendations that embed life-course perspectives within regional policy. It will reprise long-term perspectives offered by a life-course approach within geography, with a new methodological twist, and will develop a new approach to understanding policy that considers the 'social life of policy' as spatially and temporally contingent. To advance this agenda, the project is guided by the following research questions:1. In what ways have young people experienced overlapping socio-political ruptures to their life-courses, according to local austere contexts? 2. How do young people articulate and envision the impacts of these socio-political ruptures on their future biographies? 3. How can life-course perspectives on austerity shape understandings about and applications of the social life of policy? To address these questions, in-depth creative oral history interviews (100 per site) will be carried out in each site, documenting the impacts of austerity on young people's life-course biographies, focused on the linkages between socio-political ruptures. This will produce a rich, innovative body of data detailing the lived, complex legacies of austerity. With permission edited interviews will be submitted to local public archives in each site and used to develop an exhibition. The comparative empirical elements are also underpinned by systematic area profiles and literature reviews that bring together multi-disciplinary and policy work in the field, across languages and contexts. Co-production workshops, drawing on project findings presented via an exhibition in each site and a website, will develop policy recommendations on bringing life-course perspectives and ideas about the social life of policy into regional policies. These will be discussed at policy implementation workshops with the support of partners and attended by policy-makers from various levels of government. The project will also build a community of praxis leading to the first European research and policy network focused on young people's life-course biographies and austerity (ENYPLA).

自2008年以来，紧缩和全球经济危机对欧洲各地年轻人的人生传记产生了直接和毁灭性的影响。对于现在35岁及以下的人来说，这一点尤其严重，他们在成长过程中经历了重大的破坏(社会政治破裂)。这包括对家庭生育决定、就业机会和住房安排的相互关联的影响。这些内容因环境而异。为了调查这些问题，这个项目集中在三个欧洲权力下放或自治地区：大曼彻斯特(英国)、巴塞罗那省(西班牙加泰罗尼亚)和撒丁岛(意大利)。越来越多的学术和政策相关研究考虑了紧缩和经济危机对年轻人未来的影响。然而，学者和政策制定者较少了解的是，年轻人一生传记的社会政治破裂之间的相互联系。缺乏对相互交错的社会政治破裂的理解，也反映在政策和政府竖井上，住房、家庭和就业政策和部门很少被整合。还需要将终生观点纳入政策制定，以便更好地说明政策(如紧缩)的社会生活如何产生在实施很久之后才在实地感受到的影响。作为补救措施的一种形式，该项目建议将紧缩不作为一个时间点、社会或空间，而是不断形成和重塑，并与经验、历史和未来对话。该项目提供了必要的概念新颖性和经验创新来解决这些复杂的问题。为此，它综合和扩展了社会科学各学科的概念方法，开发了创造性的方法工具，并共同设计了区域政策建议，在区域政策中嵌入了生命历程的观点。它将重复地理学中的生命历程方法提供的长期视角，并进行新的方法论扭曲，并将开发一种新的方法来理解政策，该方法将政策的社会生活视为空间和时间上的偶然性。为了推进这一议程，该项目以以下研究问题为指导：1.根据当地严峻的背景，年轻人在生活过程中以哪些方式经历了重叠的社会政治破裂？2.年轻人如何阐明和设想这些社会政治破裂对他们未来传记的影响？3.关于紧缩的人生历程观点如何影响对政策的社会生活的理解和应用？为了解决这些问题，将在每个地点进行深入的创造性口述历史访谈(每个地点100个)，记录紧缩对年轻人一生传记的影响，重点是社会政治破裂之间的联系。这将产生一个丰富的、创新的数据体系，详细描述紧缩留下的鲜活而复杂的遗产。经允许，编辑后的采访将被提交到每个地点的当地公共档案馆，并用于开展展览。比较经验要素还得到系统的领域概况和文献审查的支持，这些领域概况和文献审查汇集了跨语言和不同背景的实地多学科和政策工作。联合制作讲习班借鉴通过在每个地点和一个网站上的展览提出的项目成果，将就如何将有关政策的社会生活的终生观点和想法纳入区域政策提出政策建议。这些问题将在合作伙伴的支持下在政策执行讲习班上讨论，各级政府的政策制定者将出席。该项目还将建立一个实践社区，导致欧洲第一个专注于年轻人一生传记和节俭的研究和政策网络(ENY解放军)。

项目成果

Creative Methods for Human Geographers

人文地理学家的创造性方法

• 发表时间: 2021
• 作者: Philo, Chris

Reproductive Futures in Austerity

紧缩政策下的生殖未来

• 发表时间: 2021
• 作者: Hall, S.M.

For feminist geographies of austerity.

• DOI: 10.1177/03091325211065118
• 发表时间: 2022-04
• 期刊: Progress in human geography
• 影响因子: 7.1
• 作者: Hall SM

Oral Histories and Futures: Researching crises across the life-course and the life-course of crises

口述历史与未来：研究生命历程中的危机以及危机的生命历程

• DOI: 10.1111/area.12904
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Area
• 影响因子: 2.2
• 作者: Hall S

Personal, Political and Public: Socio-Legal Changes from a Relational Perspective

个人、政治和公共：关系视角下的社会法律变化

• DOI: 10.1111/tesg.12586
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie
• 影响因子: 4.8
• 作者: Hall S