Dear all,
FYI and sorry for cross posting.
Below you can find the updated program for our Anthropology of Labour
Network - EASA workshop co-organised with Focaal: Journal of Historical and
Global Anthropology and the Moving Matters programme group at the Amsterdam
Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) at UvA. It is taking place in
Amsterdam next week!
https://www.easaonline.org/networks/aol/aol_workshop.shtml
Key issues in the anthropology of labour in the context of flexible
capitalism
*University of Amsterdam, Sep 30 –Oct 1, 2019*
Venue: Common room of the UvA anthropology department (REC B5.12) at
Roeterseilandcampus.
PROGRAMME
*Day I: September 30*
*10.00-10.30 Welcome and introduction*
- Anthropology of Labour Network: Dan Hirslund, Mariya Ivancheva
- Focaal & Moving Matters: Luisa Steur
- UvA & Practicalities: Dastan Abdali
*10.30-12.00 Panel 1: Industrialism under change*
Discussant: Dimitra Kofti
- Daniela Elena Ana "Work-rhythms and the experience of time for workers
in a Moldovan winery"
- Fulvia D'Aloisio "From Mitbestimmung to partecipazione. Shapes of work
and new industrial relations in the case of Automobili Lamborghini
(Bologna-Italy)
- Oksana Dutchak "Marxism, on Time: Labor-Power Reproduction on
Ukrainian Garment Factories in Global Supply Chains"
- Denys Gorbach "Informality, voice and exit at “new” and “old”
factories in Ukraine"
- Hege Høyer Leivestad "The Container Class: Logistics Labour at the
Strait of Gibraltar"
*12.00-12.15 Coffee/Tea break*
*12.15-13.45 Panel 2: Labor regimes in transition*
Discussant: Luisa Steur
- Kira Brenner "Neoliberal workers: Women in export factories in
Tunisia" Jiazhi Fengjiang "Negotiating work's worth: grassroots
philanthropy in post-Mao China"
- Allan Souza Queiroz (co-author: Geice Silva) "Labour reform in Brazil:
local labour markets and sexual division of family labour"
- Lerato Thakholi " Invisibilized conservationists: Exploring low-wage
labour in South Africa’s private nature reserves"
- Alexandra Oanca "Digital Self-care as Unpaid Labor: An Ethnography of
the Production of Big Data and Self-tracking Digital Cultures"
*13.45-14.45 Catered Lunch*
*14.45-16.15 Panel 3: Reconceptualizing 'ordinary' work*
Discussant: Tina Harris
- Camilla Mevik "Skill and discretion: New patterns of division of
labour in global shipping"
- William Monteith "Ordinary work in the post-wage economy: Reflections
from a Ugandan marketplace"
- Joana Nascimento "Making tweed, working with uncertainty: labour
histories and resourceful engagements in the textile industry of the Outer
Hebrides of Scotland"
- Garima Jaju "Friends, Enemies and ‘Dirty Politics’: Studying petty
politics on the work-floor in New Delhi"
*16.15-16.30 Coffee/Tea break*
*16.30-18.00 Panel 4: Thriving Informal Economies*
Discussant: Lorraine Nencel
- Gergö Pulay "Popular Politics and the Management of Precarity in a
Poor Neighbourhood of Bucharest"
- Marc Morell “The profits of tourism deserve our sacrifice»: On labour
and the double character of extraction in the tourist city.”
- Tanja Visic "Making a place to make it work: Hyper-precarity, Motility
and Gendered Work Cultures"
- Alessandra Radicati "Phatic work in the real estate market in Colombo"
- Valentini Sampethai "Informal economy of sex work in Omonoia, Athens"
*18.00-19.00 Special Event: Presenting new publications in the field*
- Luisa Steur & Dimitra Kofti Focaal-Journal of Global and Historical
Anthropology (n.b. theme section 2018 “Capitalism and global anthropology:
Marxism resurgent”, with Marc Morell)
- Dennis Arnold “The social question in the twenty-first century” (2019,
University of California Press, edited by Jan Breman, Kevan Harris, Ching
Kwan Lee & Marcel van der Linden)
- Etienne Bourel (co-author: Judith Hayem) “Subjectivations at/of work?
Journal des Anthropologues special issue
- George Morgan (2018) “the creativity hoax: precarious work and the gig
economy” (2018, Anthem Press, co-authored with Patrice Nelligan)
*19.30 - Dinner at Mama Dough, Beukenplein 21, Amsterdam*
*Day II: October 1*
*09.00-10.00 Anthropology of Labour Network Meeting*
*10.00-11.30 Panel 5: Flexibility Costs*
Discussant: Dan Hirslund
- Pablo Ampuero "Resistance in precarity: The case of the Sanhe Dashen
in Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China"
- Jacob Nielsen "The quest for work free lives: capitalist utopias and
dreams of total alienation amongst London’s precariat"
- Guiseppe Troccoli "Building flexibility: the articulation of precarity
and autonomy in construction worker’s movements in Belize City”
- Vinzenz B. Escobar (co-author Olivia Vicol) “Work outside the wage in
Catalonia and the UK: the promise and pitfalls of freedom in the post-wage
economy”
- Hassan Moctar “"Living labour and the selective permeability of the EU
border in Nouadhibou, Mauritania"
*11.30-11.45 Tea/Coffee break*
*11.45-13.15 Panel 6: New Precarities*
Discussant: Mariya Ivancheva
- Delia Badoi " Normalising precariousness through flexible labour in
the neoliberal academia - A conceptual model based on a theory-set for the
case of Romania"
- Neda Deneva " Employee-Leasing and the Value of Labour in the IT
sectors in Romania and Bulgaria"
- Slobodan Golušin "Labor relations on platform labor markets:
Hierarchies and cooperation between UpWork freelancers in Serbia"
- Miriam Shestack “There’s No Such Thing as Free Basics: Data and value
in Facebook’s failed scheme to connect all of India”
*13.15-14.15 Catered Lunch*
*14.15-15.45 Panel 7: Social reproduction revisited*
Discussant: Sian Lazar
- Stefano Ba' "Precarious mothers: struggling to reconcile precarious
work and care"
- Victoria Brown "Gendered consequences of the global economic downturn
in agriwork Spain"
- Ana Cirstea "Trajectories of Romanian labour migrants in north-west
London" Lotte Schack "'To be in a collective is to be not alone, in the
end': the importance of care and reproductive labour in anti-precarity
activism"
*15.45-16.00 Tea/Coffee Break*
*16.00-17.30 Panel 8: Unionism and worker struggles*
Discussant: Miriyam Aouragh
- Volodymyr Artiukh "Work precarization and labor immobilization under
the Belarusian passive revolution"
- Rebecca Ashley " Discontented midwives: protest, wages and the
politics of care work in Iceland"
- Jeroen Merk "Spatialized labour control strategies and multiple scales
of activism: PT Nikomas Gemilang, Nike and freedom of association in
Indonesia"
- Joe Trapido " Organising the cleaners at Ernst and Young (and other
outsourced spaces), an ethnographic study of an organising project for
outsourced migrant workers"
*17.30-18.00 Closing Remarks*
The organizers
Mariya Ivancheva, University of Liverpool ([log in to unmask])
Dan V. Hirslund, University of Copenhagen ([log in to unmask])
Luisa Steur, University of Amsterdam ([log in to unmask])
More information on Focaal is available on the journal’s website (
https://journals.berghahnbooks.com/focaal) and its blog (
https://www.focaalblog.com)
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M.
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