Resistance, Protest and Austerity: How do Working Class People 'Fight Back', and Against What?

这一提议旨在探讨紧缩、社会不平等和日常抵抗地理之间的关系。它将探讨以下问题：工人阶级如何体验和理解紧缩和不平等？人们如何理解和制定抵制紧缩和不平等的形式？人们在进行抵抗时面临哪些障碍，例如健康状况不佳和疲劳？社会阶级和社会地位的概念是否能使人们参与并表达他们的抵抗？为了回答这些问题，这项研究将利用参与者观察在Thrive，一个基层社区组织慈善在斯托克顿-蒂斯。它还将通过使用参与者观察和采访来探索一系列基于反紧缩的抗议组织和活动。这项研究是基于斯托克顿-蒂斯，在英格兰东北部的一个城镇与高水平的剥夺，失业和大的健康不平等。学者们已经开始考虑紧缩政策对斯托克顿居民健康的影响，这项研究旨在通过研究该地区的工人阶级社区如何抵制不平等和紧缩政策来建立这一点。

This proposal seeks to explore the relationship between austerity, social inequality and the everyday geographies of resistance. It will explore the following questions: how do working class people experience and understand austerity and inequality? How do people understand and enact forms of resistance to austerity and inequality? What barriers do people face when engaging in resistance, such as ill health and fatigue? Do concepts of social class and place enable people to engage with, and articulate their resistance? To answer these questions, this research will utilise participant observation at Thrive, a grassroots community organising charity in Stockton-on-Tees. It will also explore a range of anti-austerity based protest organisations and activities through the use of participant observation and interviews. This research is based in Stockton-on-Tees, a town in the North East of England with high levels of deprivation, unemployment and large health inequalities. Academics have already begun to consider the role that austerity is having upon the health of Stockton-on-Tees residents, and this research seeks to build upon this by examining how working class communities within the area are resisting inequality and austerity.