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Structural Transformations and Everyday Spatial Consequences in Austerity Ireland: An Embedded Comparative Approach
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Abstract Urban research often focuses on aggregate characteristics of macroeconomic performances or in-depth case studies of everyday urban phenomena. However, this dichotomy risks alienating two perspectives that can constructively illuminate spatial developments together. This article extends the "politica... view more
Urban research often focuses on aggregate characteristics of macroeconomic performances or in-depth case studies of everyday urban phenomena. However, this dichotomy risks alienating two perspectives that can constructively illuminate spatial developments together. This article extends the "political economy of everyday life" approach, borrowed from political economy, to connect the local and everyday to global structures. The aim is to make this perspective sensitive to geographic differences and develop a "spatial political economy of everyday life." To operationalise this approach, I discuss the multi-scale analysis employed in a comparative project on austerity and urban youth in Ireland that sought to ground everyday consequences in a structural context. This project combined three methods: (a) a theoretical analysis of the global structures of the 2008 financial crisis, (b) a policy analysis of the impact of Irish austerity policies on youth, and (c) a comparative qualitative analysis of the everyday consequences of crisis and austerity on youth from disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Cork and Dublin. This embedded comparative approach identified how the global financial crisis shaped national policies and how geographic differences shaped everyday spatial and personal consequences. This embedded comparative approach conceptualises cities as places where the structural and everyday constitute each other. It illuminates how this mutual interaction creates spatial particularities and common trends. In doing so, an embedded comparative approach contributes to developing a "spatial political economy of everyday life."... view less
Keywords
Ireland; deprivation; everyday life; neighborhood; urban geography; young adult; political economy; austerity policy; urban research; social inequality
Classification
Area Development Planning, Regional Research
Free Keywords
austerity; comparative urbanism; embedded comparative approach; political economy of everyday life
Document language
English
Publication Year
2023
Page/Pages
p. 289-300
Journal
Urban Planning, 8 (2023) 4
Issue topic
Between the "Structural" and the "Everyday": Bridging Macro and Micro Perspectives in Comparative Urban Research
ISSN
2183-7635
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed