Ruth Raynor
Biographic Data
| ID | 228041 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth Raynor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth |
| FAMILY NAME | Raynor |
| SIGNATURE | RAYNOR R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Newcastle, UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2401-6408 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 85 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Spectacle of Endings: In an “Endless Present”
This Introduction to the special issue on “Creative Endings” thinks across intensities and temporalities to consider the force of “endings” in the contemporary political moment: the multiple timespaces within them, endings as temporalities in their own right, experienced forcefully, unequally, and as generative of dynamic emotional resonances. Whilst often stated, endings remain under-theorised in the discipline. Yet endings are a central form th…
Hopes multiplied amidst decline: Understanding gendered precarity in times of austerity
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…
Encountering austerity in everyday life: Intensities, localities, materialities
Policy and Practice Spatial imaginaries: Tyrannies or transformations?
This Policy and Practice (P&P) originated from the round table discussion held in the UK and Ireland Planning Research Conference at Queens University Belfast from 11 to 13 September 2017. Its aim is to explore the representational and performative role of spatial imaginaries in both describing identities and ascribing them to places and thus influencing spatial relations and planning practices. The P&P consists of four contributions which reflec…
Speaking, feeling, mattering: Theatre as method and model for practice-based, collaborative, research
This paper examines uses of theatre for practice-based, collaborative, research. It brings a review of existing work and reflections on my own practice into dialogue with participatory geographies, studies of affect and geographies of bodily difference. This demonstrates in-depth and well-justified relationships between forms of practice and the spatial ways of knowing they engage; the surfacing of otherwise background conditions for critique and…
(De)composing Habit in Theatre-as-Method
Research encounters, like other encounters, differently facilitate the coconstitution of the subject, and incite more or less intense processes of change. But how to understand that change in a context of ongoing difference? To explore this question I draw on a series of theatre workshops developed with unemployed and precariously employed UK women who worked together to share experiences of austerity and coproduce a fictional play. A number of w…
Dramatising austerity: Holding a story together (and why it falls apart . . .)
A group of women in the North East of England; women getting on and getting by amidst austerity. But what does austerity become for these women? How does it surface and register in their everyday lives through a series of fragmented encounters? Together, we developed a fictional play to explore how austerity acted in the midst of other things. Effects ranged from the un-dramatic to the intense – from an empty flowerbed at the end of the street to…
Dramatising austerity: Holding a story together (and why it falls apart . . .)
A group of women in the North East of England; women getting on and getting by amidst austerity. But what does austerity become for these women? How does it surface and register in their everyday lives through a series of fragmented encounters? Together, we developed a fictional play to explore how austerity acted in the midst of other things. Effects ranged from the un-dramatic to the intense – from an empty flowerbed at the end of the street to…
Hopes multiplied amidst decline: Understanding gendered precarity in times of austerity
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…
Speaking, feeling, mattering: Theatre as method and model for practice-based, collaborative, research
This paper examines uses of theatre for practice-based, collaborative, research. It brings a review of existing work and reflections on my own practice into dialogue with participatory geographies, studies of affect and geographies of bodily difference. This demonstrates in-depth and well-justified relationships between forms of practice and the spatial ways of knowing they engage; the surfacing of otherwise background conditions for critique and…
Encountering austerity in everyday life: Intensities, localities, materialities
Spectacle of Endings: In an “Endless Present”
This Introduction to the special issue on “Creative Endings” thinks across intensities and temporalities to consider the force of “endings” in the contemporary political moment: the multiple timespaces within them, endings as temporalities in their own right, experienced forcefully, unequally, and as generative of dynamic emotional resonances. Whilst often stated, endings remain under-theorised in the discipline. Yet endings are a central form th…
(De)composing Habit in Theatre-as-Method
Research encounters, like other encounters, differently facilitate the coconstitution of the subject, and incite more or less intense processes of change. But how to understand that change in a context of ongoing difference? To explore this question I draw on a series of theatre workshops developed with unemployed and precariously employed UK women who worked together to share experiences of austerity and coproduce a fictional play. A number of w…
Dramatising austerity: Holding a story together (and why it falls apart . . .)
A group of women in the North East of England; women getting on and getting by amidst austerity. But what does austerity become for these women? How does it surface and register in their everyday lives through a series of fragmented encounters? Together, we developed a fictional play to explore how austerity acted in the midst of other things. Effects ranged from the un-dramatic to the intense – from an empty flowerbed at the end of the street to…
(De)composing Habit in Theatre-as-Method
Research encounters, like other encounters, differently facilitate the coconstitution of the subject, and incite more or less intense processes of change. But how to understand that change in a context of ongoing difference? To explore this question I draw on a series of theatre workshops developed with unemployed and precariously employed UK women who worked together to share experiences of austerity and coproduce a fictional play. A number of w…
Policy and Practice Spatial imaginaries: Tyrannies or transformations?
This Policy and Practice (P&P) originated from the round table discussion held in the UK and Ireland Planning Research Conference at Queens University Belfast from 11 to 13 September 2017. Its aim is to explore the representational and performative role of spatial imaginaries in both describing identities and ascribing them to places and thus influencing spatial relations and planning practices. The P&P consists of four contributions which reflec…
Speaking, feeling, mattering: Theatre as method and model for practice-based, collaborative, research
This paper examines uses of theatre for practice-based, collaborative, research. It brings a review of existing work and reflections on my own practice into dialogue with participatory geographies, studies of affect and geographies of bodily difference. This demonstrates in-depth and well-justified relationships between forms of practice and the spatial ways of knowing they engage; the surfacing of otherwise background conditions for critique and…
Encountering austerity in everyday life: Intensities, localities, materialities
Hopes multiplied amidst decline: Understanding gendered precarity in times of austerity
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…
Spectacle of Endings: In an “Endless Present”
This Introduction to the special issue on “Creative Endings” thinks across intensities and temporalities to consider the force of “endings” in the contemporary political moment: the multiple timespaces within them, endings as temporalities in their own right, experienced forcefully, unequally, and as generative of dynamic emotional resonances. Whilst often stated, endings remain under-theorised in the discipline. Yet endings are a central form th…
Art (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Austerity (3 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)