EASA2018: Staying, Moving, Settling, Stockholm, August 14 to 17, 2018
*P056: *Beyond precarity: the politics of hope, care, and solidarity under
conditions of unsettling (im)mobility
<https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6424>
*The Call for Papers is now open and closes at 23:59 CET on 9 April. *
*Submissions are through the link below. *
*We kindly urge you not to submit last moment as the system can get jammed.*
Convenors
- Mariya Ivancheva (University of Leeds)
- Dan Hirslund (University of Copenhagen)
Short abstract
The panel invites empirical case studies that explore if and how precarious
living and working situations, inside and outside paid labour, can mobilise
solidarity, hope or care under the conditions of unsettling (im)mobility in
advanced capitalist societies.
Long abstract
Precarity designates existential and structural uncertainty (Butler 2009).
Under neoliberal capitalism the professional middle class and organized
workers in the Global North - protected within the post-war pact between
labour and capital - have become subject to precarious working and living
conditions previously "privy" to women, marginalized groups, and people in
the developing world (Neilson and Rossiter 2008). Instead of lowering
workloads, automation cuts jobs, polarising the labour force between a huge
mass of un(der)employed temporary workers and a tiny "elite" of more secure
but hypermobile, overworked 'professionals'. A settled risk-free life-long
'career' (Sennett 1998) becomes an ideal to those subject to perpetual
setbacks and geographic displacement.
Instead of presenting (yet another) dissection on precarity, the panel
invites empirical case studies that look for avenues of social organisation
transcending the polar opposition between precarity and stability. We
explore if and how precarious living and working situations, both outside
paid labour and inside it, can be a mobilising force for relational
autonomy (Millar 2014), solidarity (Santer, Hirslund, Benjamin 2017), hope
(Narotzky & Besnier), or care (Lynch and Ivancheva 2015).
We invite papers that address this potential for transgressing the politics
of precarity through empirical case studies on topics such as, but not
limited to:
- Precarity and care within anthropological fieldwork;
- Distinctions between economic and political precarity;
- Intersections between precarity, mobility, gender, sex, class, race,
disability;
- Everyday coping strategies; desires and new forms of sociality and
intimacy; alternative subjectivities or collectivities within precarious
communities;
- Automation, precarity, and the future of work.
To submit a paper please follow the link
<https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/paperproposal/6424>
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