Voices from the South of Spain
Lucia Sell-Trujillo. September 2014.
The social construction of the Spanish grasshopper can only be understood as opposed to the northern European ant – the one whose door the grasshopper calls to ask for a bailout when the winter comes.
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Spanish Creativity and Resistance in times of Austerity and Crisis
Spanish Creativity and Resistance in times of Austerity and Crisis
Dr. Miguel Imas and Dr. Lucia Sell-Trujillo (Seville, 2013)
Funded by Kingston University & Santander Research Mobility Scheme
As a consequence of the financial crisis, Spaniards have had to witness profound transformations related to the austerity measures and economic scarcity. As a consequence, social conditions and relations have undergone considerable changes, to the point of transforming the outlook of the subject and eventually, the political sphere. This research engages in close participation in the everyday life of particular communities: partaking in the general assemblies organised by the 15M social movement; witnessing social and artistic actions organised by the movement flo6x8; and engaging in community life through Corralas and neighbourhood of Seville. Our preliminary ethnographies tell complex and interwoven tales of the deteriorating living conditions they are experiencing in this region, the practices developed by the communities and families to counter the discourse and measures of austerity and the capacity shown by people to generate creative strategies to supersede and combat their precarious situation.
Dr. Miguel Imas and Dr. Lucia Sell-Trujillo (Seville, 2013)
Funded by Kingston University & Santander Research Mobility Scheme
As a consequence of the financial crisis, Spaniards have had to witness profound transformations related to the austerity measures and economic scarcity. As a consequence, social conditions and relations have undergone considerable changes, to the point of transforming the outlook of the subject and eventually, the political sphere. This research engages in close participation in the everyday life of particular communities: partaking in the general assemblies organised by the 15M social movement; witnessing social and artistic actions organised by the movement flo6x8; and engaging in community life through Corralas and neighbourhood of Seville. Our preliminary ethnographies tell complex and interwoven tales of the deteriorating living conditions they are experiencing in this region, the practices developed by the communities and families to counter the discourse and measures of austerity and the capacity shown by people to generate creative strategies to supersede and combat their precarious situation.
Re-imagining Organisation from the European Precariat: The Emerging Creative-Resistence Organisation.
CONFERENCE. 19 – 20 September, Seville University, Seville
Dr. Miguel Imas, Dr. Lucia Sell-Trujillo, Dr. Lucia Garcia-Lorenzo, Dr. Paul Donnelly,
The European financial crisis and the subsequent introduction of austerity programmes, following an imposed model of economic recovery from the IMF and the European Central Bank, have caused social and emotional meltdown in a large number of urban and rural communities. In particular, communities at the periphery of Europe have suffered the most, with some experiencing over 50% unemployment, along with the destruction of social and housing benefits, as well as a deterioration in their overall quality of life. At the same time, people have come to show an incredible resilience, résistance and creativity in response to these austerity measures, (re-)creating spontaneous, improvised and highly challenging ways of organising – from occupation of factories in Greece to buildings in Spain, from artistic interventions to alternative currencies – to express, reflect and critically question the current socio-economic system. All of these practices reflect a desire to act and enact new forms of collective participation and co-collaboration based on solidarity and other community integrative acts that can transcend the current discourses of austerity under the umbrella of economic neoliberalism.
This seminar, organised by the University of Seville and Kingston University, attempts to engage with these emerging organising activities, giving a space for an intellectual debate on these discourses and practices to challenge the current theoretical representations on how people (re-)organise, (re-) create their spaces, and enact new ways of interacting.
Dr. Miguel Imas, Dr. Lucia Sell-Trujillo, Dr. Lucia Garcia-Lorenzo, Dr. Paul Donnelly,
The European financial crisis and the subsequent introduction of austerity programmes, following an imposed model of economic recovery from the IMF and the European Central Bank, have caused social and emotional meltdown in a large number of urban and rural communities. In particular, communities at the periphery of Europe have suffered the most, with some experiencing over 50% unemployment, along with the destruction of social and housing benefits, as well as a deterioration in their overall quality of life. At the same time, people have come to show an incredible resilience, résistance and creativity in response to these austerity measures, (re-)creating spontaneous, improvised and highly challenging ways of organising – from occupation of factories in Greece to buildings in Spain, from artistic interventions to alternative currencies – to express, reflect and critically question the current socio-economic system. All of these practices reflect a desire to act and enact new forms of collective participation and co-collaboration based on solidarity and other community integrative acts that can transcend the current discourses of austerity under the umbrella of economic neoliberalism.
This seminar, organised by the University of Seville and Kingston University, attempts to engage with these emerging organising activities, giving a space for an intellectual debate on these discourses and practices to challenge the current theoretical representations on how people (re-)organise, (re-) create their spaces, and enact new ways of interacting.
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