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Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Family, Friendship and Intimacy: A Relational Approach to Everyday Austerity -- Chapter 3: Everyday Social Infrastructures and Tapestries of Care in Times of Austerity -- Chapter 4: Austere Intimacies and Intimate Austerities -- Chapter 5: The Personal is Political (and Relational) -- Chapter 6: A Very Personal Crisis: Family Fragilities and Everyday Conjunctures in Austerity -- Chapter 7: Conclusion

Austerity policies and austere socio-economic conditions in the UK have had acute consequences for everyday life and, interconnectedly, the political and structural regimes that impact upon the lives of women and marginalised groups. Feminist geographies have arguably been enlivened and reinvigorated by critical engagements with austerity, bringing to light everyday experiences, structural inequalities and multi-scalar socio-economic relations. With this paper I propose five areas of intervention for further research in this field: social reproduction, everyday epistemologies, intersectionality, voice and silence, and embodied fieldwork. To conclude, I argue for continuing feminist critique and analyses given the legacies and futures of austerity.

From Wiley via Jisc Publications Router ; History: received 2020-11-30, rev-recd 2021-07-06, accepted 2021-09-25, pub-electronic 2021-10-20 ; Article version: VoR ; Publication status: Published ; Abstract: UK geopolitics for the last five years has been heavily dominated by Brexit. The lead up to the referendum, the result, negotiations, intervening general election, extensions, further negotiations, and impending exit from the European Union have captured both academic and public interest. This paper contributes to geographical and wider social science research on the everyday geographies of socio‐economic change, with a particular focus on Brexit and the temporal politics of waiting. Emerging analyses focus on Brexit as an event, as uncertainty, and a discrete period for and of research on public moods. I illustrate how exploring Brexit through the lens of waiting provides new ways of thinking through the time‐spaces of Brexit, by drawing on data collected during an ethnographic participatory project in Gorse Hill, Greater Manchester (2018–2020). Analysis of group discussions, peer‐led research projects, podcast recordings, vox pops, and ethnographic fieldnotes highlight the embodied, everyday, endured, and emplaced experience of waiting for Brexit. More specifically, findings make the case for this waiting as crisis, as conjuncture, and as method. The paper closes with a discussion of the pace and timeliness of research, and the implications of waiting for, in, and with Brexit and other forms of socio‐economic change.

The term social infrastructure is increasingly being discussed in academic literature, policy reports and public forums. We might even go so far as to say it is the latest buzzword. Feminist economists understand social infrastructures as encompassing all aspects of social reproduction,
but these ideas are routinely sidelined in wider debates. This article provides a critical reading of key trends in the ways the term social infrastructure is currently being defined and deployed: namely, as being equivalent to social spaces and spaces of sociability, such as community centres,
parks and libraries, rather than being understood in terms of labour, gender and social reproduction. Part of the reason for this is the association between social reproduction and the home, which leads to a dismissal of reproductive work in communities at large. In writing about infrastructures
more generally, it is not uncommon for gendered labour, care and reproduction to go completely ignored, or at least to only be discussed in relation to physical infrastructure. This simultaneous erasure and co-optation of feminist ideas has the effect of diminishing, diluting and marginalising
the role of social reproduction as the foundation of our economy and society. It is therefore also a form of depoliticisation. In the article's conclusion, the case is made for recognising and reclaiming social reproduction as social infrastructure: an infra-structural approach could help
alleviate long-standing tensions in definitions of social reproduction as both process and practice, and as operating on multiple scales.

Foreword / by Clive Barnett -- Introduction: sharing economies in times of crisis / by Sarah Marie Hall and Anthony Ince -- Sharing in and through crisis -- "It feels connected in so many ways" : circulating seeds and sharing garden produce / by Laura Pottinger -- Malleable homes and mutual possessions : caring and sharing in extended family households as a resource for survival / by Chris Gibson, Natascha Klocker, Erin Borger and Sophie-May Kerr -- Reciprocity in uncertain times : negotiating giving and receiving across time and place among older New Zealanders / by Juliana Mansvelt -- Relationships, reciprocity and care : alcohol, sharing and "urban crisis" / by Mark Jayne, Gill Valentine and Sarah L. Holloway -- Sharing, the economy and sharing economies -- Home for hire : how the sharing economy commoditises our private sphere / by Paula Bialski -- "Hand-me-down" childrenswear and the middle-class economy of nearly new sales / by Emma Waight -- Franchising the disenfranchised? : the paradoxical spaces of food banks / by Nicola Livingstone -- Shared moments of sociality : embedded sharing within peer-to-peer hospitality platforms / by Katharina Hellwig, Russell Belk and Felicitas Morhart -- Alternative sharingscapes -- Swimming against the tide : collaborative housing and practices of sharing / by Lucy Sargisson -- Just enough to survive : economic citizenship in the context of indigenous land claims / by Nicole Gombay -- Crisis, capitalism, and the anarcho-geographies of community self-help / by Richard White and Colin Williams -- Index

This paper argues for rethinking economic geographical of sharing and making in light of the recent proliferation of open innovation, makerspaces and maker movements. Using empirical research from an example of one such makerspace - Manchester's FabLab - and engaging with a range of geographical literatures on making, sharing economies, and digital fabrication, we develop a critical account of sharing in principle and in practice. The portrayal of open innovation spaces, such as FabLabs, as novel makerspaces of alterity and sharing is a common and underpinning theme in both academic and marketing literature (Aldrich, 2014; Anderson, 2012; Doherty, 2012, Gershenfeld, 2005; Fab Foundation 2012; Suire, 2019). However, our findings suggest that the values espoused by the FabLab, of involvement, connection and affinity are quite literally being revised and rejected by makers who use the space. Time, labour and knowledge were for the most part described by participants as precious commodities to be savoured rather than shared. Thus, while sharing is an ordinarily economic practice, this does not mean it is always, inevitably or evenly employed by economic actors and communities, especially within counter-cultural networks. If these are to be the economies of the future, we implore economic geographers to critically engage further with the complexities of and within maker spaces.

In this paper we examine the issue of environmental responsibility in the Russian Federation by engaging in responsibility narratives with environmental nongovernmental organisations (NGOs). We do so to examine in more depth the impact of the deinstitutionalisation of environmental responsibility in Russia throughout the transition period. We find that while NGOs regard the state and other key actors to have abdicated in their responsibility for protecting the natural environment, Russian environmental NGOs appear unable to substitute for these actors. Consequently, the Russian environment remains largely unprotected and thus subject to continuing irresponsibility in the field of environmental protection and pollution control.

This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: PIMLOTT-WILSON, H. and HALL, S.M., 2017. Everyday experiences of economic change: repositioning geographies of children, youth and families. Area, 49 (3), pp. 258–265, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12348. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. ; In this paper, we argue for repositioning geographies of children, youth and families at the centre rather than at the periphery of discussions about the economy. This not only reveals what contemporary and lived experiences of economic change feel and look like, but also exposes deeper problematics about the geographically and socially uneven nature of neoliberalism and the austere state. This editorial also introduces a collection which, when taken together, explores intersections between everyday life and austerity, with children, youth and families as the focus of inquiry. Adopting a multi-scalar approach, the collected papers 'zoom in' to explore the everyday realities of austere life in the UK in order to refract our understanding of the broader condition of economic change and concomitant austerity measures. Simultaneously, and speaking to a wider political agenda, the collection can be scaled up, or the framing 'zoomed out', to question and actively address the injustices of austerity and neoliberal retrenchment.

In 2012, David Morgan gave a talk titled 'Neighbours, neighbouring and acquaintanceship: some further thoughts' at the University of Turku, Finland. In this article we engage in dialogue with Morgan's talk, as well as his 2009 book Acquaintances, in particular the observations he made about the simultaneous closeness and distance that characterises neighbouring relationships. We suggest that using the metaphors of elasticity and stickiness instead allows us to explore neighbouring relationships as more than inhabiting a space between intimates and strangers (Morgan, 2009), but as textured and messy everyday relationalities. We consider also how the 'stickiness' of this relationship as well as the significance of its 'elasticity' are likely to have been heightened during COVID-19 lockdowns, which have altered the usual configurations of intimate and stranger relationships. In doing so, our aim is to contribute further to Morgan's theorising of the nature of neighbouring as a specific form of acquaintanceship.