A Sense of Place: Staging Psychogeographies of the UK Housing Crisis

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Jen Harvie
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Abstract Contemporary Britain is experiencing an enduring and devastating housing crisis spearheaded in 1980 by Margaret Thatcher’s introduction of the “Right to Buy” social housing and sustained by an enduring neoliberal hegemony. This article contextualises the housing crisis through data and information drawn from journalism, charities, and government. It then explores how the crisis is conveyed in two recent plays. Sh!t Theatre’s 2016 Letters to Windsor House focusses on company members Louise Mothersole and Rebecca Biscuit’s overcrowded and unsafe North London flatshare. Home is a verbatim show set in a hostel for homeless young people in East London, produced by the National Theatre and co-researched and directed by Nadia Fall in 2013. As well as exploring the shows’ narration of the devastating social and material impacts of the housing crisis, the article draws on urban theory’s concept of psychogeography alongside video documentation of both plays to explore how they affectively convey the spatial and emotional consequences of the crisis. The article shows how the spatialisation of theatre – not just its textual elements – helps articulate both the spatiality of the housing crisis in contemporary urban life in neoliberal Britain and, especially, how that spatiality feels. It makes the case for thinking psychogeographically about theatre in order to focus on the ways it braids spatial and emotional understanding – crucial factors for properly comprehending, and potentially changing, the UK housing crisis.
地方感:英国住房危机的分期心理地理学
摘要当代英国正在经历一场持久而毁灭性的住房危机,这场危机始于1980年玛格丽特·撒切尔推出的“购买权”社会住房,并由持久的新自由主义霸权所支撑。本文通过从新闻、慈善机构和政府获得的数据和信息,将住房危机置于背景之下。然后,它探讨了危机是如何在最近的两部剧中传达的。嘘!t剧院2016年《致温莎之家的信》聚焦于公司成员Louise Mothersole和Rebecca Biscuit在北伦敦拥挤且不安全的公寓。《家》是一部以伦敦东部一家无家可归的年轻人宿舍为背景的逐字逐句的节目,由国家剧院制作,Nadia Fall于2013年联合研究和导演。除了探讨这两部剧对住房危机造成的毁灭性社会和物质影响的叙述外,文章还借鉴了城市理论的心理地理学概念,并结合了这两部戏剧的视频文件,探讨了它们如何情感地传达危机的空间和情感后果。这篇文章展示了戏剧的空间化——而不仅仅是其文本元素——如何有助于阐明新自由主义英国当代城市生活中住房危机的空间性,尤其是这种空间性的感受。它提出了对戏剧进行心理地理学思考的理由,以关注它编织空间和情感理解的方式——这是正确理解并可能改变英国住房危机的关键因素。
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