Everyday affects and meaning-making narratives of the "Cost of Living Crisis

这个项目描绘了文化对“生活成本危机”的反应。自2021年末以来，能源和日常用品价格的疯狂上涨导致英国各地的生活水平突然下降。我认为，这种日常经历是通过“危机”的概念来理解的，它催生了大量有意义的叙事。这些叙述可能是霸权的，可能是替代的，也可能是对主导政治范式的抵制。为了理解这是如何运作的，我从三个方面分析了这场危机。首先，我分析了英国主流媒体对危机的报道。然后，我将其与苏塞克斯大众观察档案馆中发现的日常危机经历进行比较。最后，我分析了将危机的复杂性浓缩为简短、犀利的批评的文化对象(模因、推文、涂鸦)。在这样做的过程中，我讲述了受试者如何解读、叙述和批评“生活成本危机”，包括它的全球层面。

This project maps cultural responses to the "Cost of Living Crisis". Since late 2021, rampant inflation in the cost of both energy and everyday goods has caused an abrupt fall in living standards across the UK. I argue that this everyday experience is made sense of through the concept of "crisis", which spawns a multitude of meaning-making narratives. These narratives may be hegemonic, alternative or resistant of dominant political paradigms. To understand how this works, I approach the crisis from three sites of analysis. First, I analyse coverage of the crisis in the mainstream UK media. Then, I compare this to portrayals of the everyday experience of crisis found in the Mass Observation Archives in Sussex. Finally, I analyse cultural objects (memes, tweets, graffiti) that condense the complexity of the crisis into short, snappy critiques. In doing so, I offer an account of how subjects interpret, narrativise and critique the"Cost of Living Crisis", including its global dimensions.