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. Together, these avenues demonstrate how shame not only acts over those individual bodies experiencing food poverty but also realises an operation of power for pushing austere conducts onto collective populations. Reading shame in this fashion necessitates two critical interventions. First, this paper builds a geographical account of shame that provides an alternative route through psychological and sociological understandings – culminating in a re‐definition of shame as the feeling that emerges from a contested un‐covering of out‐of‐placeness. Second, this paper adds a geographical contribution to emergent theorisation of “affective governmentality.” By positioning “shameful subsistence” as a specific affective governmentality at a time of austerity, this paper departs from previous studies of governmentality that tend to emphasise the numerical and statistical as the primary “technical factors” used to govern life. This paper demonstrates how shame is not limited to the spaces and users of foodbanks: rather, shame is a central framework for understanding the contemporary politics of austerity both in the places it creates and through the feelings, behaviours, and values it encourages.

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走向地理上的耻辱：食物库，紧缩政策和严谨的情感政府性空间

本文是关于耻辱，其地域及其在紧缩英国行为政府中的作用。利用南威尔士山谷的Trussell Trust食品银行的人种学和访谈数据，通过羞辱的空间，时空和政治来调查其耻辱地理。这些途径加在一起表明，羞辱不仅对遭受粮食贫困的单个机构造成了耻辱，而且还实现了将严厉行为推向集体人口的权力运作。以这种方式阅读羞耻感需要两项关键的干预措施。首先，本文建立了羞耻的地理学解释，为通过心理和社会学理解提供了另一种途径–最终重新定义了羞耻，因为有争议地发现了不适感。第二，本文为“情感政府性”的新兴理论化增加了地理上的贡献。通过在紧缩时期将“可耻的生存”定位为一种特定的情感政府，本文与以往对政府的研究有所不同，前者的研究倾向于强调数字和统计作为用于管理生活的主要“技术因素”。本文展示了羞耻感如何不仅限于食物库的空间和使用者：而是，羞辱感是理解当代紧缩政治的中心框架，无论是在其创造的地方，还是通过其鼓励的情感，行为和价值观。本文与以往对政府性的研究有所不同，后者倾向于强调数字和统计作为用于控制生活的主要“技术因素”。本文展示了羞耻感如何不仅限于食物库的空间和使用者：而是，羞辱感是理解当代紧缩政治的中心框架，无论是在其创造的地方，还是通过其鼓励的情感，行为和价值观。本文与以往对政府性的研究有所不同，后者倾向于强调数字和统计作为用于控制生活的主要“技术因素”。本文展示了羞耻感如何不仅限于食物库的空间和使用者：而是，羞辱感是理解当代紧缩政治的中心框架，无论是在其创造的地方，还是通过其鼓励的情感，行为和价值观。