Dear colleagues,
*Apologies for cross-posting*
Please find bellow the CFP for an EASA 2016 (P080) session titled: New trends in the anthropology of unemployment after the economic crisis of 2008-9
http://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=4199
Convenors:
Francisco Arqueros (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
Patrícia Alves de Matos (University of Barcelona)
Michele Fontefrancesco (Università di Scienze Gastronomiche)
Abstract:
Since the onset of the last economic crisis (2008-2009), a high rate of unemployment in the EU countries has become a key issue for governments, social organisations, ordinary people and the social sciences. Unemployment does not constitute an area of research on its own right in anthropology (Howe 1990; Jancious 2006). In social science, in general, there is a lack of studies on the collective responses of civil society to unemployment as well as the experience of being unemployed (Perelman 2007; Guigni 2009). Anthropologists, however, have been writing about unemployment since the crisis of the 70s: the 'deserving' and the 'undeserving' unemployed (Howe 1990); ideologies of the unemployed (Pappas 1989); the social and historical construction of work cultures (Perelman 2007); narratives of survival (Procoli 2004); unemployment and precarity as liminal conditions (Spyridakis 2013). This panel is looking for papers showing the research agendas of anthropologists currently working on the topic of unemployment, in EU countries but also outside them. This panel tries to address a broad range of issues, although it is not reduced to them. Therefore, we invite contributors to address some of the following issues:
1. The ongoing dismantling of the social welfare system and how that affect the way in which the unemployed make their livelihood;
2. The blurring of the boundaries between formal and informal work;
3. How people experience unemployment and how they respond to it, both individually and collectively;
4. How the 'problem of unemployment' is socially constructed by different social actors;
5. Work and unemployment ethics among different groups of workers and ethnic groups;
6. Analyses of unemployment policies.
Discussant: Manos Spyridakis (University of the Peloponnese, Greece)
Paper proposals must consist of:
· a paper title
· the name/s and email address/es of author/s
· a short abstract of fewer than 300 characters
· a long abstract of fewer than 250 words
Don’t hesitate to contact us for any further clarification, and do send us your paper proposal by the 15th of February, to [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask]
All the very best,
Francisco Arqueros & Patrícia Matos
Reference List
Guigni, M ed. (2009) The Politics of Unemployment in Europe: Policy Responses and Collective Action, Ashgate
Howe, L. (1990) Being unemployed in Northern Ireland: An Ethnographic Study, Cambridge University Press
Jancius, J. (2006) ‘The Anthropology of Unemployment’, Ethnos, V. 271 (2)
Pappas, G. (1989) The Magic City: Unemployment in a Working-class Community, Cornell University Press,
Perelman, M. (2007) ‘Theorizing Unemployment: Towards an Argentine Anthropology of Work’, Anthropology of Work Review, V. 28 (1)
Procoli, A. ed. (2004) Workers and Narratives of Survival in Europe: The Management of Precariousness at the End of the Twentieth Century, State University of New York Press
Spyridakis, M. (2013) The Liminal Worker: An Ethnography of Work, Unemployment and Precariousness in Contemporary Greece, Ashgate
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