Event overview
A one-day ESRC funded workshop and the third in series ‘Austerity Futures? Imagining and Materialising the Future in an ‘Age of Austerity’
This is the third in a series of events organised as part of ‘Austerity Futures? Imagining and Materialising the Future in an ‘Age of Austerity’’, a two year programme examining whether and to what extent austerity changes the ways in which the future is imagined, planned for, worked towards and brought into being.
Funded by the Economic and Social Science Research Council and organised by a group of academics based at Lancaster, York, Durham and Goldsmiths, the series of seminars, workshops and conference brings together leading researchers from the UK, America, Canada, Australia and Europe with those working on methodologies for analytically understanding the future in the public, private and third sectors.
It is often argued that we should understand expectations as ‘constitutive’ or ‘performative’, but more needs to be said about how this is so. How do some visions and expectations of the future emerge as accepted versions of how things will be while others do not? In what ways are these visions altered in an austerity society? What performative role is played by the discourses, events and practices associated with austerity? In what way does austerity articulate with fundamental changes in the restructuring of the state, welfare, the private sector? How do these forces articulation with personal futures, personal liability, risk and individual accountability?
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 17 Jun 2013 | 10:00am - 5:30pm |
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