Dear Colleague,
Nearly a decade after the global financial crisis of 2008, this thematic section investigates one way in which marginalization and precarization appears: boredom. An increasingly competitive global economy has fundamentally changed the coordinates of work and class in ways that have led to a changing engagement with boredom.
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Volume 2017, Issue 78
Theme Section: Boredom after the global financial crisis
Introduction: Rethinking the class politics of boredom
Marguerite van den Berg and Bruce O'Neill
http://bit.ly/2vNfsVp
Joyful pessimism: Marginality, disengagement, and the doing of nothing
Martin Demant Frederiksen
http://bit.ly/2w40qK0
The ethnographic negative: Capturing the impress of boredom and inactivity
Bruce O'Neill
http://bit.ly/2tHuJFV
Too much time: Changing conceptions of boredom, progress, and the future among young men in urban Ethiopia, 2003-2015
Daniel Mains
http://bit.ly/2eROcAT
Articles
"Because we are the only ones in the community!": Protest and daily life in poor South African neighborhoods
Jérôme Tournadre
http://bit.ly/2h6P0CD
"They don't even know how to copy": The discourse on originality in Albania's art world
Sofia Kalo
http://bit.ly/2w4kU5q
Can a financial bubble burst if no one hears the pop?: Transparency, debt, and the control of price in the Kathmandu land market
Andrew Haxby
http://bit.ly/2w48fiY
Empowering or impoverishing through credit: Small-scale producers and the Plan Chontalpa in Tabasco, Mexico
Gisela Lanzas and Matthew Whittle
http://bit.ly/2uGFych
Why do drug dealers still live with their moms?: Contrasting views from Chicago and Managua
Dennis Rodgers
http://bit.ly/2v3tfsV
Review Article
Meditations on crises and time in Southeastern Europe
Jana Hrckova
http://bit.ly/2vNEPXc
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