Project description DEENESFRITPL Moral politics and urban austerity The rise of political values and practices opposed to the building of an inclusive and sustainable society is one of the biggest challenges facing the European project today. As urban areas increasingly become sites of political contestation, in which austerity is both implemented and resisted, broader issues such as intergenerational justice, redistribution, solidarity and citizenship are distilled into concrete conflicts. The EU-funded CHAMP project will investigate how morals help construct and mediate political demands. The project will explore the moral foundations of critique focused on housing policy in Ireland, Portugal and the United Kingdom, national-urban cases which have provoked different responses to austerity, and will do so by developing an innovative, interdisciplinary analytical framework. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective "CHAMP is a proposed training partnership between Dr Adam Standring, Professor Jonathan Davies and the Centre for Urban Research on Austerity (CURA) at De Montfort University (DMU), Leicester, UK. The rise of political values contrary to the aims of the European project is one of the great challenges of our time. The proposed Fellowship would be the first of its kind in examining the way morals construct and mediate political demands, from where moral critiques emanate and how they are legitimized. By exploring the moral foundations of critique, the Fellowship will develop novel perspectives on how European goals of social inclusion and sustainable societies can be achieved. Building on Dr Standring's work on anti- politics and Professor Davies' research on urban austerity, this project constructs an innovative interdisciplinary analytical framework. This framework is applied to a specific policy area especially suited to a moral critique - housing - in three countries producing different responses to austerity - the UK, Ireland and Portugal. As urban areas become sites of political contestation, fundamental in the implementation and resistance to austerity, broader political issues such as intergenerational justice, redistribution, solidarity, citizenship and community resilience are distilled into concrete conflicts. In delivering this project, the Fellow will benefit from De Montfort University's outstanding research training programme, and the field leading expertise of Professor Jonathan Davies and the CURA team. The project is closely aligned with the DMU strategic priority for researching 21st century urban living. It complements UN Sustainable Development goals and contributes to meeting EU Societal Challenges, especially """"Europe in a changing world: inclusive, innovative and reflective societies"""". If successful, the Fellow will emerge from the programme as a fully independent scholar of international standing and as a credit to the MSCF programme." Fields of science social sciencessociologysocial issuessocial sciencessocial geographyurban studiessocial scienceseconomics and businesseconomicssustainable economy Keywords Morals Politics Housing Crisis Discourse Programme(s) H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Main Programme H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility Topic(s) MSCA-IF-2020 - Individual Fellowships Call for proposal H2020-MSCA-IF-2020 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF) Coordinator DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY Net EU contribution € 224 933,76 Address THE GATEWAY LE1 9BH Leicester United Kingdom See on map Region East Midlands (England) Leicestershire, Rutland and Northamptonshire Leicester Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 224 933,76
