Mia Gray - mainly posting on Bluesky

Professor of economic geography at the University of Cambridge. Researches austerity, labour, debt, gender & sustainable regional economies.

@mia-gray.bsky.soc

[Mia Gray - mainly posting on Bluesky @_mia_gray]

Our new paper on "Place-based solidarity: Crisis, austerity and the devolution of responsibility"

authors: Coco Huggins and Mia Gray

is now available free online: https://t.co/bstm4Cd4Tf

[Mia Gray - mainly posting on Bluesky @_mia_gray]

https://t.co/AF29e6WW9N

Clearly, time to post this link again ... we argue electricity should be a basic human right and should be considered part of a social minimum. (free access)

https://t.co/qQtJ5ALkbx

[EPA: Economy and Space @economyandspace]

OnlineFirst - "Interfaces of precarity and the networks of precarious lifeworlds: Experiences of housing, social supports, and work in youth homelessness" by Benjamin Owens:

#precariouswork #homelessness #youth #housinginsecurity #labourgeography

https://t.co/R8tqzHB4PQ

[Infrastructural Geographies @IGeographies]

A fabulous initiative. Apply!

[Mia Gray - mainly posting on Bluesky @_mia_gray]

Free to download -- Handbook of Labour Geography (Andy Herrod editor).

https://t.co/sPoHqCfKiy

[Mia Gray - mainly posting on Bluesky @_mia_gray]

It was a real pleasure to write a chapter in the Handbook of Labour Geography. The editor, Andy Herod, was a joy to work with and the collection itself looks great.

https://t.co/u3KIrZHe3U

[RSABlog @rsa_blog]

40 years after the miners' strike, austerity still haunts the UK’s coalfields.
New RSA blog by David Etherington, @_mia_gray & Lisa Buckner shows £32.6bn cut from these communities since 2010. Local gov gap now: £447M.
Read: https://t.co/mpAo2o76GC
@regstud

[Mary O'Hara @maryohara1]

Imagine what could be done with this revenue.

[Paul Nowak @nowak_paul]

I wish the media cared as much about the 131k staff vacancies in social care as they do about the 0.3% of millionaires who left the UK.

Imagine all those column inches dedicated to thinking about how we tackle chronic low pay & insecure work in the sector https://t.co/MHH0zGHovl

[Jodi Gardner @jodi_s_gardner]

Another amazing publication!! Well done Coco Huggins and @_mia_gray for this piece, which is so important in light of the ongoing challenges of austerity. @UoBCHASM, will be of particular interest for your researchers.

[Mia Gray - mainly posting on Bluesky @_mia_gray]

@Sanvanlan Thanks Sander!

[Mia Gray - mainly posting on Bluesky @_mia_gray]

We argue:
•Place-based solidarity helps us understand how a shared commitment to place can keep services running under austerity.
•Place-based solidarity has tensions and limits. It is not currently a sustainable solution to the retreat of the state.

[Mia Gray - mainly posting on Bluesky @_mia_gray]

Our new paper on "Place-based solidarity: Crisis, austerity and the devolution of responsibility"

authors: Coco Huggins and Mia Gray

is now available free online: https://t.co/bstm4Cd4Tf

[Hannah Hasenberger @HaHasenberger]

https://t.co/bOwx45Nhue

[Jack Shaw @JackTShaw]

New analysis Andy Pike and I published on Friday revealed that authorities are forecasting a £9.3 billion deficit by 2026-27. Based on their Medium Term Financial Strategy, only 14 authorities estimate they'll balance their budget:

[Patrick Butler @patrickjbutler]

My @guardian story: More than 1m of the UK's poorest households to get £420 budget boost in universal credit change https://t.co/nWZ8mXgP9k

[Helen Barnard @Helen_Barnard]

Positive first step to tackling deep poverty in this Budget. Debt deductions from Universal Credit are a key driver of food bank need & this will ease the burden. Also great to see government frame this as a first step on a longer journey. 1/3
https://t.co/QTmI3ziSD2

[alan rusbridger @arusbridger]

“I’m trying to think of any possible justification for paying William, a 42-year old public servant, more than £23m and of course there is none. If you question it, the whole edifice crumbles” My column https://t.co/pox21WD2XR