Towards a geographical account of shame: Foodbanks, austerity, and the spaces of austere affective governmentality

2020/08/09 by Samuel Strong, Samuel M. Strong · 5 citations
Health Professions · Social Sciences · #Employment and Welfare Studies #Homelessness and Social Issues #Emotional Labor in Professions

paper · doi:10.1111/tran.12406

Abstract

This paper is about shame, its geographies, and its role in the government of conduct in austerity Britain. Drawing on ethnographic and interview data from a Trussell Trust foodbank in the Valleys of South Wales, the geography of shame is investigated through its spatiality, temporality, and politics. This paper demonstrates how shame is a central framework for understanding the contested politics of austerity both in the places it creates and through the feelings, behaviours, and values it encourages.

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