On October 16th, the closure of the Austerity and Altered Life-Courses project was celebrated, in which the AFIN research group participated, simultaneously in Barcelona (Spain), Manchester (United Kingdom), and Sardinia (Italy).
The objective of this project was to analyze the impact of sociopolitical disruptions on the lives of young people in an austerity context, as well as to explore how these individuals projected their life courses into the future.
The project’s closure included a series of simultaneous activities, some of which were streamed, at the various project locations. The AFIN group participated in the welcome session, led by Sarah Hall, Professor of Geography, as well as in a presentation on feminist research methodologies.
At the UAB, students of the Anthropology of Sex/Gender Systems course from the Bachelor’s Degree in Anthropology conducted a focus group discussing austerity policies, followed by an individual activity in which participants reflected on how they projected their biographies into the future. The results of this focus group will be published in one of the upcoming issues of the AFIN Publication.
Finally, in an internal meeting among AFIN researchers, various studies on reproduction linked to austerity contexts were shared, and a discussion was held on how reproductive futures are perceived in contemporary societies.