** Dear all, the first call contained a mistake - we ask for ABSTRACTS, not papers, before 15 December **
CHANGING LANDSCAPES OF LABOUR – THEORIZING THE SPATIALITIES, TEMPORALITIES AND POSSIBILITIES OF WORK IN TIMES OF FLEXIBILITY AND TRANSNATIONALISM
Session C2 at the 7th Nordic Geographers' Meeting, Stockholm, June 18-21 2017
Working life in general has for some time been exposed to what can be conceptualized as a dual process of flexibilization and transnationalization. This has resulted in new economic geographies characterized by spatial and temporal divisions of labour, including: temporary and precarious forms of employment, a migratory workforce, and segmented labour markets.
Theorizing these spatialities of work requires a language for understanding not only how workers are divided, but also how they are brought together in new ways. Hence, acknowledging workers’ role in global production networks and corporate actors’ role in the mediation of migration patterns (as well as other emerging assemblages of work) remain a core task for human geographers. Growing attention has also been directed to the agency of workers, and how it is differentiated across time and space, as well as to the complexity and constitution of workers’ identities. Workers are increasingly perceived as subjects and co-creators of economic, political and social landscapes. However, the capacity to act is both enabled and constrained by these very same landscapes.
This session welcomes papers that a) explore and seek to advance our understanding of the spatialities and temporalities of work, particularly in response to the above-mentioned processes of flexibilization and transnationalization, and b) unpack and theorize workers’ agency, identities and experiences as they navigate in a flexible, and increasingly transnational, labour market.
Convenors
Kristina Zampoukos, Dept. of Tourism studies and Geography, Mid-Sweden University
David Jordhus-Lier, Dept. of Sociology and Human Geography, Oslo University
Anders Underthun, Work Research Institute, Oslo and Akershus University College
Hege Merete Knutsen, Dept. of Sociology and Human Geography, Oslo University
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The deadline to submit abstracts is 15 December.
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