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Journal articles on the topic "Precarious subjectivities"
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Kesisoglou, Georgios, Evangelia Figgou, and Maria Dikaiou. "Constructing work and subjectivities in precarious conditions: Psycho-discursive practices in young people’s interviews in Greece." Journal of Social and Political Psychology 4, no. 1 (March 1, 2016): 24–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v4i1.494.
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Precarity is becoming the paradigmatic description of young people’s work conditions in crisis-ridden Greece, but also in other European countries. Focusing on interview data on the work experiences of young adults (18-26 years old), in urban centres of Greece, this study attempts to explore the ways in which informants account for working in precarious conditions and construct agency and subjectivity within these ways of accounting. The analysis drawing on insights from critical discursive social psychology indicates that participants construct precarious work conditions as widespread and banal a) by treating precarious work as a sine qua non condition of youth employment, b) by considering precarious work as an inherent trait of the Greek job-market, c) by considering precarious work as a necessary step on a (biographical) path leading to the desired and/or appropriate job, or d) by adopting a “there is no other alternative” accounting, representing precarious job conditions as the only alternative to unemployment. The analysis also points out the ways in which participants orient themselves to a dilemma of stake and accountability, being concerned to position themselves as effortful subjects, while they are rhetorically constructing the banal regime of precarious labour. The discussion considers the need to bring into the scope of social and political psychology the specific nuances of precarious labour.
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Turrini and Chicchi. "Precarious subjectivities are not for sale: the loss of the measurability of labour for performing arts workers." Global Discourse 3, no. 3 (December 1, 2013): 507–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2014.885167.
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Yong, Kee Howe. "The Mak Pasar: Engaging with the Difficulty of Reality in a Recurring Conflict-ridden Thailand’s Far South." Public Anthropologist 1, no. 2 (September 14, 2019): 246–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/25891715-00102007.
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Pictures of women eking out a living at open-air markets in conflict zones are often used worldwide to elicit sympathy and outrage. Their chilies, synecdoche here for the commodities they sell at the open-air markets, constitutes another stereotypical image of these women living on the margins of the economy. However, what remains missing in most analyses is the focus on the lives and livelihoods of these women who bear the hardships of maintaining family life in precarious circumstances. This article focuses on the effects of the latest insurgency in Thailand’s far south on a group of women food vendors (mak pasar) as they engage with the difficulty of reality. It also touches on their cynical subjectivities towards how the government has been handling the conflict and their ambivalence towards the insurgency.
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Fogliata, Stefano. "“Safe but Frozen Camps”: Syrian and Palestinian Refugees around a Football Field in Beirut." Review of Middle East Studies 54, no. 2 (December 2020): 234–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/rms.2021.26.
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AbstractPalestinian camps in Lebanon have turned once more into “transitional zones of emplacement” for thousands of people recently fleeing the Syrian conflict. In this context, the plural subjectivities emerging within the camps highlight a further connection between spatial marginalization and precarious legal statuses. My research hinges on the interconnectivities evolving around the Palestinian Bourj el Barajneh camp and Hezbollah-controlled Beirut southern suburbs moving from an ethnographic insight of the Palestinian football society. Inside the “Refugee Football Leagues,” Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese players find a space in leagues whose matches are mostly disputed within the numerous refugee camps scattered throughout the national territory. Moving from newcomers’ strategies for protection, the essay investigates how refugees living in camps experience different scales of mobility and develop a wide range of practices that extend beyond the camp's boundaries, exploring how imperceptible and hyper-mobile tactics of existence re-elaborate Palestinian refugee camps into meaningful places of elusive contestation.
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McLean. "A reply to ‘Precarious subjectivities are not for sale: the loss of the measurability of labour for performing arts workers’ by Mauro Turrini and Federico Chicchi." Global Discourse 3, no. 3 (December 1, 2013): 522–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2014.896166.
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Lima, Catharina Pinheiro Cordeiro dos Santos, and Caio Boucinhas. "Challenges of the urban peripheral landscapes." urbe. Revista Brasileira de Gestão Urbana 8, no. 1 (December 15, 2015): 61–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2175-3369.008.001.se04.
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Abstract The peripheral regions of Sao Paulo reveal a profound contradiction in their landscapes – on the one hand, remnants of their original biophysical basis and, on the other, increasing pressure for the territory’s occupation. The northwest sector of the periphery, for example, presents environmentally sensitive areas which are at the same time under great pressure for occupation by those who do so by choice (the property market) and those who have none (irregular and high-risk occupation). The poor inhabitants of these regions have increasingly organized themselves to achieve basic rights through community associations, social movements, and cultural groups ever since the recent re-democratization process in Brazil. It is precisely in these urban spaces, which are precarious in many ways, that significant subjectivities have emerged in participatory processes, expressing an awareness of environmental issues with an implicit desire for more humanized landscapes. These processes often include children and their teachers as protagonists. For thirteen years, the Landscape, Art and Culture Laboratory (LABPARC) of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism (FAU) at USP has been working with educators and children from municipal public schools, developing projects, research, and university extension work in the region. This article aims to discuss this experience with the objective of showing the gains achieved and the challenges that may arise within the perspective of a collective construction of the city, where urban interventions can be harmonized with water sources, streams, steep slopes, forests, and fauna.
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Power, Nicole. "“(IM)MOBILE PRECARITY” AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE IN NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR." International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies 12, no. 2 (July 7, 2021): 88–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.18357/ijcyfs122202120235.
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Mobility for work and education among young people has been a key feature of contemporary life. Drawing on focus groups with youth living in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, as well as key informant interviews with people who work for community-based organizations that serve youth, I examine the relationship between young people’s employment- and education-related geographical mobilities and precarity. I draw on recent insights from scholars examining precarity as grounded in both labouring conditions and ontological experience. In foregrounding the experiences and subjectivities of poor and working-class youth, I show how the structure of youth labour markets and of education and training cheapens youth labour, with implications for youth’s capacity for independence. In a context of broader regimes of mobility associated with resource extraction, young people without formal qualifications live precarious lives: they move from job to job and place to place, and rely on family and friends to support their housing and other needs. In this context of uncertainty and labour market volatility, youth expressed disorientation regarding decisions about work, education, and mobility, reflecting the high stakes of not making the “right” choice, and developed a pragmatic approach to work as a way to make a living rather than a pathway to a meaningful life. I conclude by situating these findings as a critique not just of precarity but of capitalist economic arrangements more broadly, with implications for the kinds of solutions that can address structural class inequalities.
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Lopes, Alice Casimiro, and Hugo Heleno Camilo Costa. "School Subject Community in Times of Death of the Subject." Policy Futures in Education 17, no. 2 (April 12, 2018): 105–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1478210318766955.
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In this article, we aim to theorize about the understanding of a school subject community in a discursive framework, particularly concerned with the theoretical and strategic possibilities of this notion in the research of curriculum policy. In these times, in which the death of the centered, conscious and cohesive Subject is assumed, what precisely do we mean by subjectivity (collective or not) when we are talking about a school subject community? Goodson’s theory, in relation to structural concerns, organized socio-historical conditions to explain these phenomena. Therefore, we consider it relevant to reconceptualize Goodson´s school subject community category, or even enact its deconstruction, to the extent that we propose to include other subjectivity senses through post-structural theory. We point out that our distance from Goodson´s reading of ‘community’ takes place, also, due our distance from the assumption of the existence of common, positive data, capable of generating cohesion and/or unity among individuals. Hence, with our perspective directed towards subjectivity in the context of post-structural and political-curricular thinking, based on Laclau’s theory of discourse, we discuss the possibility of thinking about the subjectivity of a community, in this case the school subject community, or its subjectivations. In conclusion, the school subject community is the result – albeit precarious, temporary and contingent – of discursive articulation. The school subject community, through the argument we have built, is the set of subjectivities formed in provisional operations in the discursive field named school subject.
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Filippidis, Christos. "Between Ferality and Resilience: Global (South) Urbanization as a Counterinsurgency Research Object." Human Geography 11, no. 3 (November 2018): 30–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/194277861801100303.
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Today, urbanization is described as one of the major global challenges. The rapid demographic transformations taking place in certain regions of the Global South — especially in countries of Africa and Southeast Asia — bring a sense of urgency to the discussion on cities. Rapid and uncontrolled urbanization in Global South, combined with social inequalities, poverty and environmental degradation, renders many urban populations vulnerable and precarious. With an emphasis on the urban expansion of the Global South, an international agenda is formed nowadays, focusing on the structural functions of the cities and their shielding against the negative effects of the current global crisis; a crisis taking today the form of an economic, environmental, and migration crisis. Thus, sustainability and resilience of the cities, and especially of those in the Global South, are turned into the key questions of urban planning and urban governance policies. Yet, they are also gradually turned into an object of military problematizations, as Western armed forces are strongly interested today in the urban phenomena and the functions of the cities, perceiving urban environment not only as a potential field of military operations but as a source of irregular threats; describing, in other words, the cities of the Global South not only as sites that host potential enemies but as enemies per se. More specifically, from the end of the 20th century U.S. military focuses on urban informality and its security implications, imposing a new understanding of the urban world. This is today more evident, as rapid demographic changes render urban systems and informal urban settlements in particular more vulnerable, and this vulnerability is directly problematized in public security terms. Through the relevant anti-urban theoretical frameworks, the cities of the Global South are conceived as feral systems that have to be tamed; and this taming calls for direct intervention. Military imposes, in this way, its presence in the field of urban problematizations, and building on the deception of contemporary neoliberal narratives calls today for urban resilience. As the world urbanizes rapidly and the notions of crisis and emergency are shaping the dominant social imaginary and the modern governmental agenda, urban sustainability, adaptability, and resilience are turned into an overall public security issue and eventually into an object of military interest. Hence, when the military theorists wonder how to make contemporary “fragile” urban systems more “resilient”, they actually wonder how to build forcibly resilient subjectivities and impose, after all, resilience and patience against an inescapable oppression.
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Pfleger, Simone. "Becoming Disposable: Bodies In-Sync and Out-Of-Sync with Method Time in Juli Zeh’s Corpus Delicti." Literatur für Leser 42, no. 2 (January 1, 2022): 21–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/lfl.2019.02.03.
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Abstract This article analyzes Juli Zeh’s Corpus Delicti: Ein Prozess (2009) to show how the novel explores the ways in which social, cultural, and political structures control, monitor, and regulate the protagonists’ bodies and construction of their subjectivities. My discussions of Corpus Delicti foregrounds the possibility that performative acts which at times render the protagonist Mia Holl precariously illegible within the dominant socio-cultural system, while at other times she may still reside within the system. By doing and undoing a state of belonging and disposability, the character cannot be situated completely and permanently “inside” or “outside” the system. In this vein, Mia challenges the prevalent tendency of some readers to valorize resistance by embracing those instances when she registers as belonging to the dominant system. Moreover, distinct formal aspects of Zeh’s text prompt readers to pause and potentially re-read passages, encouraging them to interrogate critically their own desire for both a linear narrative and an optimistic resolution with a happy ending.
Books on the topic "Precarious subjectivities"
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Lloyd, Anthony. The Harms of Work. Policy Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529204018.001.0001.
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This book provides a qualitative account of working conditions within the contemporary service economy. As the largest employer in the modern labour market, investigating its realities demonstrates a number of problematic issues. The quest for profitability, efficiency and customer satisfaction drive a number of practices that can be interpreted from a social harm perspective. The use of zero-hours contracts, temporary work agencies, just-in-time management, lean working, and emotional labour, underpinned by targets and performance management reflect the imperatives of capital and the requirement for profitability. In relation to the employees who work in such precarious forms of employment, a number of harms appear. The ‘Victorian’ working conditions noted at individual operators such as Sports Direct are not anomalies but instead represent the normal functioning of the sector. In considering work from a social harm perspective, the book offers a unique contribution to the sociology of work and criminological or social harm studies. The social harm consideration of systemic violence is extended by an ultra-realist perspective that accounts for the symbolic violence of ideology and the problematic subjectivities willing to inflict harm on others. In its conclusions, the book asks for a consideration of the role of ideology and political economy in debates which seek to fix the harms of work.
Book chapters on the topic "Precarious subjectivities"
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Ferfolja, Tania, and Jacqueline Ullman. "Exploring ‘Thing-Power’ and the ‘Spectre of Fear’ on Schooling Subjectivities: A Critical Posthuman Analysis of LGBT Silencing." In Reimagining Sustainability in Precarious Times, 187–98. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2550-1_13.
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Jordal, Malin. "Precarious subjectivities." In Bodily interventions and intimate labour. Manchester University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7765/9781526138576.00019.
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Sung-Yul Park, Joseph. "Becoming Precarious Subjects." In In Pursuit of English, 149–64. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190855734.003.0008.
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This chapter considers the consequences of the subjectivities of English explored in the previous chapters, exploring how they contribute to the condition of extreme precarity of contemporary Korean society. Through Korea’s neoliberal transformation, work and life has grown significantly insecure. In particular, unemployment of the younger generation has reached a historical high, and fear of failure leads this generation to continuously invest in accumulation of marketable skills and to forgo life itself so that they may survive in the fierce competition in the job market. Through an analysis of how criteria for good English in the white-collar job market have been constantly raised and renewed over the decades since the 1990s, this chapter argues that subjectivities of English promoted in neoliberalism may groom workers to be precarious subjects by aligning their hopes and expectations about life and labor with the insecure and uncertain conditions of work under the neoliberal economy.
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Kendrick, Lynne, and Yaron Shyldkrot. "Voicing Identity: Theatre Sound and Precarious Subjectivities." In Avatars, Activism and Postdigital Performance. Methuen Drama, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350159341.ch-6.
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Ovetz, Robert. "A Workers’ Inquiry into Canvas and Zoom: Disrupting the Algorithmic University." In Digital Platforms and Algorithmic Subjectivities, 183–200. University of Westminster Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.16997/book54.n.
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Learning management systems (LMS) and teleconferencing technologies moved to the centre of teaching in Higher Education (HE) during the pandemic. Already on a rapid growth trajectory, these technologies were introduced into HE to rationalise, deskill, control, and manage academic labour by breaking it up into discreet tasks of course design, delivery and assessment. These discreet tasks are being redistributed to administrators, contractors, and other non-faculty technicians. This rationalisation is made possible by the ubiquitous dataveillance of teaching and learning built into the architecture of the Canvas LMS and Zoom teleconferencing app. These technologies are central to the production of more self-disciplined precarious platform workers who can labour remotely under the ubiquitous surveillance and control of algorithmic management. A workers’ inquiry of the new technical composition of capital in higher education is needed to analyse and organise against these attacks on academic workers.
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Özkazanç-Pan, Banu. "Mobile Methodologies." In Transnational Migration and the New Subjects of Work, 109–22. Policy Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529204544.003.0008.
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This chapter starts off by noting that transnational approaches contribute a multiscalar understanding and analysis of mobile subjectivities such that attending them to them requires moving beyond comparative lenses. To clarify, a transnational paradigm does not discount the importance of the nation-state but rather, holds is as a precarious achievement and construction made possible by discourses of difference and belonging. Yet the nation-state and thus, ‘cultural values’ as reflections of nation-states cannot be the starting point for an analysis that aims to understand subjectivities that move across scales and the specificity of experiences associated with mobile encounters. This chapter provides examples of work that can attend to these issues under the notion of “mobile methodologies”. Under this approach, researchers move with the research object/subject over time, place and space as needed to understand the assembling of transnational lives, experiences and practices. The chapter contrasts these approaches with existing works within diversity and cross-cultural management research that adopt comparative and static methods that are unable to attend to mobile subjects. In sum, the chapter offers critique and new directions for methodologies that can be used to study transnational subjects.
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Kaustubh, Deka. "‘A Register and a Bill’." In Vernacular Politics in Northeast India, 267–88. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192863461.003.0011.
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The state of Assam underwent a spectacular phase of socio-political mobilization between the period of 2014 and 2019 around the vexed issue of defining the contours of India’s citizenship discourse. The process of the updation of the National Register of Citizens (NRC and the amendment of the citizenship laws of the state, the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) sharply polarized opinions in the region. Drawing from field insights as well as literature, an argument has been made that the reception and implications of exercises like NRC and CAA that lies at the interstices of the political, legal, and the social needs to be read as a complex ensemble of political and social practices anchored around contestations over belongingness and mediated through the parameters of the state and various social actors of the region. Out of this complex negotiation new political subjectivities of the region unfold, vernacular but precarious.
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Narkunas, J. Paul. "Market Humans." In Reified Life, 39–71. Fordham University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823280308.003.0002.
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This chapter describes how citizenship can be bought like any other commodity through H1B Visas as a marker of a new historical formation of the “Market Human.” Through an engagement of Antonio and Michel Foucault, the author describes a shift in governmentality from protection of citizens to producing “economic humans” who can plug into the market and view managing risk, including of their own lives, as a categorical imperative. The chapter delineates how the industrialization of subjectivities, thought, and affect continues to happen in the information age, dismisses arguments on the newness of the digital age and demise of the nation-state, and maps how the financial capitalist categories of risk management now delineate the life worth living. The chapter also speculates on why the impoverished align with market humans aspirationally and why they are willing to support policies that actually make their lives more precarious.