All Outputs (3)

Encountering austerity in everyday life: Intensities, localities, materialities (2019)
Journal Article
Hitchen, E., & Raynor, R. (2020). Encountering austerity in everyday life: Intensities, localities, materialities. Geoforum, 110, 186-190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.07.017

The affective life of austerity: uncanny atmospheres and paranoid temporalities (2019)
Journal Article
Hitchen, E. (2021). The affective life of austerity: uncanny atmospheres and paranoid temporalities. Social and Cultural Geography, 22(3), 295-318. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2019.1574884

This paper moves beyond conceptualisations of austerity as a fiscal policy towards understanding austerity as lived and felt in everyday life, with a particular focus on its affective life. Through an ethnographic focus on public libraries, this pape... Read More about The affective life of austerity: uncanny atmospheres and paranoid temporalities.

Living and Feeling the Austere (2016)
Journal Article
Hitchen, E. (2016). Living and Feeling the Austere. New Formations, 87(87), 102-118. https://doi.org/10.3898/newf.87.6.2016

This paper moves beyond conceptualisations of austerity as fi scal policy towards exploring the multiple ways austerity may be lived and felt in everyday life. Drawing on research with families affected by disability, this paper argues that austerity... Read More about Living and Feeling the Austere.