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，紧缩政策和全球经济危机对整个欧洲年轻人的生命历程产生了直接和毁灭性的影响。对于现在 35 岁及以下的年轻人来说，这一点尤其严重，他们在整个人生过程中经历着重大的破坏（“社会政治断裂”）。形成时期。这包括对家庭生育决定、就业机会和住房安排的相互影响。这些因上下文而异。为了调查这些问题，该项目重点关注三个欧洲权力下放或自治区：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）。紧缩政策和经济危机考虑了对年轻人未来的影响。然而，学者和政策制定者不太了解年轻人生命历程中的社会政治断裂之间的相互联系。对交叉的社会政治断裂缺乏了解也反映在政策和政府的孤岛中，住房、家庭和就业政策和部门很少整合。还需要将生命历程的视角纳入政策制定中，以更好地解释政策（例如紧缩政策）的社会生活如何在实施后很长时间内产生影响。作为一种补救形式，该项目建议不要将紧缩视为时间、社会或空间的一个点，而是不断形成和重塑，并与经验、历史和未来进行对话。该项目提供了解决这些复杂问题所需的概念新颖性和实证创新。它通过综合和扩展跨社会科学学科的概念方法、开发创造性的方法工具以及共同设计将生命历程观点嵌入区域政策的区域政策建议来实现这一目标。它将以新的方法论转折重新呈现地理学生命历程方法所提供的长期观点，并将开发一种理解政策的新方法，将“政策的社会生命”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．根据当地严峻的环境，年轻人在哪些方面经历了与他们的生活历程重叠的社会政治断裂？ 2. 年轻人如何阐明和设想这些社会政治断裂对他们未来人生的影响？ 3. 对紧缩政策的生命历程视角如何塑造对政策社会生活的理解和应用？为了解决这些问题，每个站点都将进行深入的创意口述历史访谈（每个站点 100 次），记录紧缩政策对年轻人生命历程的影响，重点关注社会政治断裂之间的联系。这将产生丰富、创新的数据，详细描述紧缩政策留下的生动、复杂的遗产。经许可，编辑后的采访将提交给每个地点的当地公共档案馆，并用于举办展览。比较实证要素还以系统的领域概况和文献综述为基础，这些概况和文献综述汇集了该领域、跨语言和背景的多学科和政策工作。联合制作研讨会将利用每个地点和网站上的展览展示的项目成果，制定政策建议，将政策的社会生活的生命历程观点和想法纳入区域政策。这些问题将在合作伙伴的支持下在政策实施研讨会上进行讨论，并由各级政府的政策制定者参加。该项目还将建立一个实践社区，形成第一个欧洲研究和政策网络，重点关注年轻人的生命历程和紧缩政策（ENYPLA）。

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