ABSTRACT

The current Irish housing crisis shows that the 2008 financial crash lingers on in everyday lives and spaces. As especially poorer populations became increasingly excluded from affordable housing under austerity, it is increasingly felt as a ‘personal crisis’. This paper explores the impacts of austerity on home-(un)making to reveal home as a place where austerity becomes ‘lived’ and ‘felt’. Building on interviews with young people aged 18 to 25 in Cork and Dublin, it focusses on a group eager but unable to leave their parental home. Their experiences illustrate the immediate home-unmaking of austerity and the role of past memories and anticipated futures in home-unmaking under austerity. As future expectations and home-making strategies are adjusted to the austerity context, these reconfigure the facets and spheres through which crisis and austerity are experienced. The becoming-everyday of the financial crisis affects the places and spaces of everyday life, creating an all-encompassing ‘slow crisis’ that alters domestic routines and materialities, creates new forms of living together, and presents new strategies for housing and home-making. Housing and home are critical spheres through which austerity and recession become embedded in the everyday lives of disadvantaged urban youth and shape contemporary life courses in the city-after-austerity.

摘要

当前的爱尔兰住房危机表明，2008 年的金融危机在日常生活和空间中挥之不去。在紧缩政策下，尤其是贫困人口越来越多地被排除在经济适用房之外，人们越来越认为这是一场“个人危机”。本文探讨了紧缩对家庭（非）制造的影响，以揭示家庭是紧缩成为“生活”和“感觉”的地方。在对科克和都柏林 18 至 25 岁的年轻人进行采访的基础上，它专注于一个渴望但无法离开父母家的群体。他们的经历说明了紧缩政策的直接破坏以及过去记忆和预期未来在紧缩政策下破坏家园的作用。随着未来的预期和家庭建设战略适应紧缩背景，这些重新配置了经历危机和紧缩的各个方面和领域。金融危机的日常化影响着日常生活的场所和空间，创造了一场包罗万象的“慢危机”，改变了家庭的日常生活和物质，创造了新的共同生活形式，并提出了住房和家庭建设的新策略. 住房和家庭是紧缩和经济衰退进入弱势城市青年日常生活的关键领域，并在紧缩后塑造了城市的当代生活进程。并提出了住房和家庭建设的新策略。住房和家庭是紧缩和经济衰退进入弱势城市青年日常生活的关键领域，并在紧缩后塑造了城市的当代生活进程。并提出了住房和家庭建设的新策略。住房和家庭是紧缩和经济衰退进入弱势城市青年日常生活的关键领域，并在紧缩后塑造了城市的当代生活进程。