Growing up global: economic restructuring and children's everyday lives
01 Jan 2007-
About: The article was published on 2007-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 546 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Economic restructuring.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a theoretical and political critique of how the concept of resilience has been applied to places, based on three main points: First, the ecological concept of resilient...
Abstract: This paper provides a theoretical and political critique of how the concept of resilience has been applied to places. It is based upon three main points. First, the ecological concept of resilience...
735 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a more discerning approach to labour agency is proposed, which unpacks its many spatial and temporal dimensions, and identifies global production networks, the state, the community and labour market intermediaries as key arenas for consideration.
Abstract: This article critically evaluates the concept of labour agency. First, we briefly reprise structure/agency debates in human geography in order to distil how agency is best conceived. Second, we propose a more discerning approach to labour agency that unpacks its many spatial and temporal dimensions. Third, we develop a ‘re-embedded’ notion of labour agency and identify global production networks, the state, the community and labour market intermediaries as key arenas for consideration. The paper argues that worker strategies must always be assessed in relation to these wider social relations, suggesting a constrained, variegated notion of labour agency.
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...…between the different strategies – eg, the way in which resilience ‘enables people to get by, to enter reciprocal relations, and to shore up their resources, all of which are crucial underpinnings of projects to rework or resist the oppressive circumstances that call them forth’ (Katz, 2004: 246)....
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TL;DR: In this article, an emotional geopolitics of fear is proposed to connect political processes and everyday emotional topographies in a less hierarchical, more enabling relationship, using conscientization as a tool to inform the reconceptualization of global fears within critical geopolitics, and to move forward epistemological practice and our relationship as scholars with social change.
Abstract: This paper questions the recent recasting of fear within critical geopolitics. It identifies a widespread metanarrative, `globalized fear', analysis of which lacks grounding and is remote, disembodied and curiously unemotional. A hierarchical scaling of emotions, politics and place overlooks agency, resistance and action. Drawing on feminist scholarship, I call for an emotional geopolitics of fear which connects political processes and everyday emotional topographies in a less hierarchical, more enabling relationship. I employ conscientization as a tool to inform the reconceptualization of global fears within critical geopolitics, and to move forward epistemological practice and our relationship as scholars with social change.
357 citations
TL;DR: The concept of resilience has become a popular catchphrase used by government, international finance organisations, NGOs, community groups and activists all over the globe as mentioned in this paper. But despite its widespread use, there remains confusion over what resilience is and the purpose it serves.
Abstract: Resilience has fast become a popular catchphrase used by government, international finance organisations, NGOs, community groups and activists all over the globe. Despite its widespread use, there remains confusion over what resilience is and the purpose it serves. Resilience can, in some cases, speak to a desire to successfully respond and adapt to disruptions outside of the status quo. However, this conceptualisation of resilience is far from uncontested. Emerging research has shown a lack of consideration for power, agency and inequality in popular and academic use of these frameworks. Criticism has also been raised regarding the use of resilience to justify projects informed by neoliberal ideologies that aim to decrease state involvement, increase community self-reliance and restructure social services. Despite this, resilience is being used by community and activist groups that aim to address local and global environmental and social issues.With this critical insight, the need has arisen to question what is being maintained, for whom and by whom, through these discourses of resilience. In this review, I trace the evolution of the concept in the literature. Building on this, I discuss three interpretations of the resilience paradigm in current academic, political and activist arenas. I conclude by discussing possible future directions for critical geographic perspectives of resilience.
344 citations
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...While it is possible to see this articulation of resilience as resistance, scholars have simultaneously noted the distinctions between resistance and resilience (Katz 2004; Sparke 2008)....
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TL;DR: In this article, a 30-month empirical research project into the everyday lives of grassroots, non-party political activists in the UK between 2005 and 2008 is described. But the focus of the work is on the everyday practices of autonomous activists.
Abstract: This article aims to broaden and deepen debates on the everyday practices of autonomous activists. To do this we present three main research findings from a recent research project that looked in detail at what we called ‘autonomous geographies’. First, in terms of political identity, we highlight how participants in political projects problematise and go beyond the simple idea of the militant subject, set apart from the everyday who opposes the present condition. Second, we highlight how everyday practices are used to build hoped-for futures in the present, but that this process is experimental, messy and contingent, and necessarily so. Finally, we illuminate the contested spatialities embedded within political activism that are neither locally bounded nor easily transferable to the transnational. This exploration of everyday activism has illuminated that the participants we engaged with express identities, practices and spatial forms that are simultaneously anti-, despite- and post- capitalist. We argue that it is through its everyday rhythms that meaning is given to post-capitalism and it is this reconceptualisation that makes post-capitalist practice mundane, but at the same time also accessible, exciting, feasible and powerful. This paper draws upon material collected during a 30-month empirical research project into the everyday lives of grassroots, non-party political activists in the UK between 2005 and 2008. Three case studies were explored in detail – autonomous social centres, Low Impact Developments, and tenants’ networks resisting gentrification.
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...Second, ‘[p]rojects of reworking tend to be driven by explicit recognitions of problematic conditions and to offer focused, often pragmatic, responses to them’ (Katz 2004, 247)....
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a theoretical and political critique of how the concept of resilience has been applied to places, based on three main points: First, the ecological concept of resilient...
Abstract: This paper provides a theoretical and political critique of how the concept of resilience has been applied to places. It is based upon three main points. First, the ecological concept of resilience...
735 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the benefits of creating relational geographies of age, in order to build out from the recent explosion of children's geographies, and discuss three helpful concepts: intergenerationality, intersectionality and lifecourse.
Abstract: In contrast to recent treatment of other social identities, geographers' work on age still focuses disproportionately on the social-chronological margins -- the very young and (to a far lesser extent) the very old -- and rarely connects them directly. We outline the benefits of creating relational geographies of age, in order to build out from the recent explosion of children's geographies, and discuss three helpful concepts: intergenerationality, intersectionality and lifecourse. We suggest that participation provides one epistemological vehicle for getting beyond geographies which are mainly adults'.
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TL;DR: In this article, a more discerning approach to labour agency is proposed, which unpacks its many spatial and temporal dimensions, and identifies global production networks, the state, the community and labour market intermediaries as key arenas for consideration.
Abstract: This article critically evaluates the concept of labour agency. First, we briefly reprise structure/agency debates in human geography in order to distil how agency is best conceived. Second, we propose a more discerning approach to labour agency that unpacks its many spatial and temporal dimensions. Third, we develop a ‘re-embedded’ notion of labour agency and identify global production networks, the state, the community and labour market intermediaries as key arenas for consideration. The paper argues that worker strategies must always be assessed in relation to these wider social relations, suggesting a constrained, variegated notion of labour agency.
389 citations
TL;DR: In this article, an emotional geopolitics of fear is proposed to connect political processes and everyday emotional topographies in a less hierarchical, more enabling relationship, using conscientization as a tool to inform the reconceptualization of global fears within critical geopolitics, and to move forward epistemological practice and our relationship as scholars with social change.
Abstract: This paper questions the recent recasting of fear within critical geopolitics. It identifies a widespread metanarrative, `globalized fear', analysis of which lacks grounding and is remote, disembodied and curiously unemotional. A hierarchical scaling of emotions, politics and place overlooks agency, resistance and action. Drawing on feminist scholarship, I call for an emotional geopolitics of fear which connects political processes and everyday emotional topographies in a less hierarchical, more enabling relationship. I employ conscientization as a tool to inform the reconceptualization of global fears within critical geopolitics, and to move forward epistemological practice and our relationship as scholars with social change.
357 citations
TL;DR: The concept of resilience has become a popular catchphrase used by government, international finance organisations, NGOs, community groups and activists all over the globe as mentioned in this paper. But despite its widespread use, there remains confusion over what resilience is and the purpose it serves.
Abstract: Resilience has fast become a popular catchphrase used by government, international finance organisations, NGOs, community groups and activists all over the globe. Despite its widespread use, there remains confusion over what resilience is and the purpose it serves. Resilience can, in some cases, speak to a desire to successfully respond and adapt to disruptions outside of the status quo. However, this conceptualisation of resilience is far from uncontested. Emerging research has shown a lack of consideration for power, agency and inequality in popular and academic use of these frameworks. Criticism has also been raised regarding the use of resilience to justify projects informed by neoliberal ideologies that aim to decrease state involvement, increase community self-reliance and restructure social services. Despite this, resilience is being used by community and activist groups that aim to address local and global environmental and social issues.With this critical insight, the need has arisen to question what is being maintained, for whom and by whom, through these discourses of resilience. In this review, I trace the evolution of the concept in the literature. Building on this, I discuss three interpretations of the resilience paradigm in current academic, political and activist arenas. I conclude by discussing possible future directions for critical geographic perspectives of resilience.
344 citations