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Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · Aug 15

Brings a whole new meaning to "Bread & Roses"!

Speaking of, a small group of us have been coming together for c2yrs as the Bread & Roses Collective to think about radical care and activism in an unequal world.

We have a logo and blurb: @austerityalters site will be updated soon with more info 🍞🌹

Theory, Culture & Society @theoryculturesociety.org · Aug 13

ICYMI: Georg Simmel, 'Roses: A Social Hypothesis' - Simmel’s fairy tale tells the story of the emergence of a sense of grievance about differences in the ability to grow roses which became constructed as a ‘terrible inequality’. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Roses: A Social Hypothesis - Georg Simmel, 2021

First published in 1897 in the avant-garde journal Jugend, Simmel’s fairy tale tells the story of the emergence of a sense of grievance about differences in the...

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Dr Kate Haddow @khaddow93.bsky.social · Aug 1

Just published this article 🥳.
Research on food aid is always important but there is more to food aid thank food banks. As seen in this paper. Please share my article 🙏 or give it a 👍.

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Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · Jul 24

Dead chuffed to say that @austerityalters.bsky.social has been funded for another 3yrs (2026-29) with a focus on co-creating spaces, stories & solidarities. Think creative sharing, collective future-making, solidarity infrastructure and more. Will share further details soon x

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Healthier Futures at the University of Manchester @healthierfutures.bsky.social · Jun 25

This time last week we were delighted to support the @austerityalters.bsky.social Anti-Poverty Chats for Change, a brilliant lunch meeting for communities, practitioners & @manchester.ac.uk peeps to explore how to act together on vital anti-poverty ambitions

#fairerhealthforall #healthierfuturesuom

Picture of a table at an event, with a jigsaw graphic showing the interconnected ways in which groups of people can effectively communicate and ensure that all perspectives are valued.

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Austerity + Altered Life-Courses @austerityalters.bsky.social · Jun 24

*creative plate

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Austerity + Altered Life-Courses @austerityalters.bsky.social · Jun 24

Last week we had our Anti-Poverty Chats for Change, a lunch event bringing together community, policy+uni folk in Manchester. Together we explored how to galvanise A-P change, working collectively+creatively. Here's our winning create plate by Terri Lucas! If you want to know more, get in touch! 🍽🖍

A photograph of a paper plate with colourful annotated drawings. It includes an ear (listening), football pitch (left-field ideas) and a heart (compassion).

Photograph of a tablecloth featuring our co-designed Anti-Poverty research framework, a colourful image with 11 values designed into a jigsaw. The image is surrounded by pens, pencils and coffee cups. An accessible version of the framework can be found on our website.

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Austerity + Altered Life-Courses @austerityalters.bsky.social · Jun 10

Tomorrow we'll be in Neuchâtel presenting some emerging ideas on young people, migration and housing in the context of austerity. Looking forward to the other talks and generating new ideas 💡

Screenshot of a slide that reads "Young migrants, austerity and housing: How austerity alters lives and futures across Europe. Prof. Sarah Marie Hall, University of Manchester. (Counter) Narratives on Migration in Times of Crisis, Wednesday 11th June 2025". The text is while on a grey background that is an illustrated jigsaw.

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Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · Apr 29

This conference looks like just the ticket: A Feminist Politics of Radical Hope in Times of Oppression.
And it's in Liverpool!
See you there? X

Dr Sharron FitzGerald @sharronfitz.bsky.social · Apr 5

CfPs 'A feminist politics of radical hope in a time of oppression' now open details lexnetwork.org under #events Open to all @meredithjones.bsky.social @jillmccorkel.bsky.social @lauraportuondo.bsky.social @daniellecitron.bsky.social @maggieoneill.bsky.social 1/2

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Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · May 2

This arrived the other day! Paperback! Available from 20th of this month and much more affordable at £28.99. 30 brilliant chapters on contemporary economic geographies, and all written by female and non-binary authors.

Sarah's hand holding a copy of the co-edited book 'Contemporary Economic Geographies' in paperback. With Jennifer Johns.

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Amy Pennay @amypennay.bsky.social · May 6

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Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · Apr 16

New blog series alert - how austerity alters disabled people's lives + futures.
-Open to all: researchers, activitists, lived experts.
-Your blog will be received with care + consideration. -You'll be supported to publication on our website & we will promote it on social media and our news list.
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Austerity + Altered Life-Courses @austerityalters.bsky.social · Apr 15

📢✏️As well as publishing the final blog of series two (socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centr...) we can now share an exciting update about series THREE, which explores 'How austerity alters disabled people’s lives + futures: intersectional understandings in research, policy, + practice'

Austerity and Altered Life-Courses: Call for blogs

Series Three – How austerity alters disabled people’s lives and futures: intersectional understandings in research, policy, and practice

Do you work at the intersection of disability and austerity? Do you have lived and/or research/policy-based experience of how austerity alters disabled people’s lives? We are curating a blog series which focuses on the ways austerity shapes and changes disabled people’s lives and futures, and we want to hear from you!

If you are interested in contributing to our blog series on the topic of austerity and disability, send us a short summary of your blog (200 words max) to austerityalters@manchester.ac.uk by Friday 30th May, with the subject line as ‘Disability and Austerity Blog’. If this date is not accessible for you, but you would still like to submit a summary, please let us know.

We approach disability inclusively and broadly. Please see post thread for full text details.

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Austerity + Altered Life-Courses @austerityalters.bsky.social · Apr 15

We are looking forward to reading your submissions!

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Austerity + Altered Life-Courses @austerityalters.bsky.social · Apr 15

As an international project, we also welcome blogs that focus on various geographical locations. We encourage submissions from people at different career stages, and from academic, community, and policy backgrounds.

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Austerity + Altered Life-Courses @austerityalters.bsky.social · Apr 15

We approach disability inclusively and broadly, welcoming reflections on and about experiences of physical impairment, chronic illness, mental illness, body size, neurodivergence and learning disabilities, in relation to austerity.

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Austerity + Altered Life-Courses @austerityalters.bsky.social · Apr 15

If this date is not accessible for you, but you would still like to submit a summary, please let us know. If you have any questions, please get in contact using the email address above and one of our team will be able to help.

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Austerity + Altered Life-Courses @austerityalters.bsky.social · Apr 15

If you are interested in contributing to our blog series on the topic of austerity and disability, send us a short summary of your blog (200 words max) to [email protected] by Friday 30th May, with the subject line as ‘Disability and Austerity Blog’.

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Austerity + Altered Life-Courses @austerityalters.bsky.social · Apr 15

Do you conduct work on disability + austerity? Do you have lived/research/policy experience of how austerity alters disabled people’s lives? We are curating a blog series focusing on ways austerity shapes + changes disabled people’s lives + futures, and we want to hear from you!

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Austerity + Altered Life-Courses @austerityalters.bsky.social · Apr 15

📢✏️As well as publishing the final blog of series two (socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centr...) we can now share an exciting update about series THREE, which explores 'How austerity alters disabled people’s lives + futures: intersectional understandings in research, policy, + practice'

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Austerity + Altered Life-Courses @austerityalters.bsky.social · Apr 15

Follow this link to read John's blog: socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centr...

Blog series - School of Social Sciences - The University of Manchester

Read the latest blog posts from the Morgan Centre into Research into Everyday Lives.

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Austerity + Altered Life-Courses @austerityalters.bsky.social · Apr 15

We are very pleased to share the final blog of series 2 by Prof. John H. McKendrick, on 'Futility and necessity: reflecting on an academic life researching poverty'. Thank you for your brilliant, reflective contribution to the series. To read John's blog, see below for the link.

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Austerity + Altered Life-Courses @austerityalters.bsky.social · Feb 7

This past year, we've been working closely with 3 ace community partners to co-create anti-poverty strategies in Manchester.
Our framework for how to work together & toolkit for policy-makers are now on our website:
www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centr...

Please use and share widely!

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Laura Fenton @soc-researcher.bsky.social · Feb 6

Austerity policies have a huge impact on young adults in Europe, including their sense of the future. Adopting a life-course perspective, we explore how place-based experiences of austerity shape temporalities and normative ideas of life transitions, introducing the concept of 'foreclosed futures'.

Austerity + Altered Life-Courses @austerityalters.bsky.social · Feb 5

We've a new paper out today on Austere Life-Courses and Foreclosed Futures in @dialogueshg.bsky.social. Read for free here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · Feb 6

Come and say hello on the 19th!

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Austerity + Altered Life-Courses @austerityalters.bsky.social · Feb 5

We've a new paper out today on Austere Life-Courses and Foreclosed Futures in @dialogueshg.bsky.social. Read for free here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · Feb 3

Back on the other place, I developed a thread about how pieces on child poverty were regularly illustrated with images of children playing in their neighbourhoods, yet play (deprivation) rarely features in mainstream discussions of child poverty.

Here’s another example.

A screenshot of a Guardian article about child poverty illustrated by an image of a child scooting along the pavement.

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