Introducing ‘Brexit Geographies’: five provocations

Boyle, Mark; Paddison, Ronan; Shirlow, Peter

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“…Bhambra (2017) notes the decline in relative privilege faced by such men, who feel edged nearer to positions already inhabited by more marginalised populations (MacLeavy, 2018). In this paper -by drawing focus on the experiences of women who were already long out of paid work -I expand on what it means to be 'left behind', given in accounts of 'Brexit' (reviewed in Boyle et al, 2018).…”

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Hopes multiplied amidst decline: Understanding gendered precarity in times of austerity

Raynor

2021

Environ Plan D

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Hope is not singular or fixed; instead hopes take multiple forms that constitute precarity. Drawing on interviews with white women ‘on benefits’ in the North East of England, in a period before Brexit, I explore different kinds of hope that surfaced in relation with neoliberal forces of, and beyond, austerity. (1) Multiplied hopes, hedging bets and holding several possibilities together; (2) Conflicted hopes, pulls towards paradoxical attachments; (3) Suspended hopes, framed by the limits of the now; (4) Negative hopes, invested in promises that despair could be pushed onto others; (5) Hopes for the absence of optimism, a mode of being present in the present, staying with mutual contingency and withdrawing from the cruelty of unknown futures, a strategy increasingly denied to women who were more than ‘left-behind’. By exploring the different forms that hopes take, we can better understand what hopes do. I argue that hopes in decline were not lost, nor orientated towards upward progress, but invested instead in maintaining a position. They were both sustaining and debilitating through situations of loss and uncertainty, and as such constituted a stretched-out present, tensed with decline.

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Hopes multiplied amidst decline: Understanding gendered precarity in times of austerity

Raynor

2021

Environ Plan D

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“…An example of problematic participation forms the basis of some of Ronan's most recent work, on the geographies of the United Kingdom's Brexit vote (Paddison and Rae, 2017;Boyle, Paddison and Shirlow, 2019). What could be more democratic and less problematic than to put a major issue, the UK's future relationship with the European Union, to a public vote in a referendum?…”

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Paddison electoral and fiscal geographies

Pattie

2020

Space and Polity

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Electoral geographies I: maps and power…I well remember a conversation I had, as a callow final year undergraduate, with Ronan during the 1983 UK General Election campaign. The conversation took placeas was common thenin the pub after, if memory serves, a meeting of the Glasgow University Geographical Society (who was giving that evening's lecture, and what it was on, are sadly lost in the mists of time: reader, if you were the speaker, I apologise!). I fancied myself as a bit of a radical, and was holding forth on the prospects for Michael Foot's Labour party. Like some Labour supporters in more recent elections fought by more recent (and even more unelectable) Labour leaders, I argued (more in hope than anything else) that Foot could still beat Mrs Thatcher's Conservatives. After all the policies were so much more attractive than the Conservatives' offer. The Conservatives had presided over deep recession, high inflation and unemployment, and the hollowing out of manufacturing industry. Foot's rallies (against nuclear weapons, against unemployment, etc.) drew large and enthusiastic crowds. And the only poll that mattered was the final vote in election day itself. There was all to play for. Voters would be persuaded by the forces of light, reason and justice, and Mrs T would be swept from office, consumed by a crisis of capitalism her government's policies had done so much to exacerbate.Ronan's response was gentle, but on the money: "I'm not so sure…". He then elaborated his reasons for (deep) scepticism regarding Labour's chances. There was a deep split on the centre-left between Labour and the Liberal-SDP Alliance. Michael Foot's personal ratings with voters were dire: he was seen variously as an unreconstructed member of the far left, as too old and infirm for the top job in UK politics, and evenfor some on the leftas too much of a turncoat from the true path of socialism after his period in government under Wilson and Callaghan. Add to that the Falkland Effect, the beginning of economic recovery in the south and midlands, and the Conservatives'' massive 20-point poll lead, and the outcome was all but certaina sweeping Conservative majority, a thumping Labour defeat (from the perspective of 2019/20, plus ça change…!).Needless to say, Ronan was right, I was wrong. I'd taken to heart half of Gramsci's famous aphorism: optimism of the will. But Ronan knew this was no good unless tied to the other halfpessimism of the intellect. It was an object (though well taught and supportive -Ronan discussed it as though between equals) lesson. Look the facts square in the face, and see them for what they are, not for what you hope they might be.

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“…In late 2019 Ronan developed the Space and Polity Special Issue on Brexit Geographies we had worked on into a book bearing the same title and containing an extended introduction (Boyle et al, 2020). But by a cruel twist of fate it was published by Routledge on 9 July 2019, the day after his passing.…”

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States of power: Ronan Paddison, Space and Polity

Boyle

2020

Space and Polity

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In this article, I record some thoughts on Ronan Paddison's accomplishments as an intellectual leader-scholar-citizen who made substantive and consequential contributions to the advancement of the systematic branch of Political Geography. I first consider that portion of Ronan's body of published research which tackles political geographical themes, commenting in particular upon his scholarship on state power, before exploring in greater detail the meaning and implications of his role as founder and Editor in Chief of the journal Space and Polity. Against the backdrop of the neoliberalising academy, Ronan Paddison's service to Political Geography serves as a lighthouse for those who survive him: it gestures to the kinds of academic subjectivities which enable privilege to be used wisely and reminds us of the indispensable work the protean scholar performs so that academic communities might prosper.

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Introducing ‘Brexit Geographies’: five provocations

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Hopes multiplied amidst decline: Understanding gendered precarity in times of austerity

Hopes multiplied amidst decline: Understanding gendered precarity in times of austerity

Paddison electoral and fiscal geographies

States of power: Ronan Paddison, Space and Polity

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