Dear all,
apologies for crossposting, but if you happen to be at EASA conference,
feel welcome to come by to our new Anthropology of Labour network meeting
today, 16th of August, Thursday, 7pm at SO-D220
The network description is as follows.
Greetings and cheers,
Mariya and Dan
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*Anthropology of Labour Network*
Since the global financial crisis in 2008, anthropologists have rekindled
their interest in studies of labor issues. Studies have looked at classical
questions pertaining to mass work in the contexts of new and waning
industries (Mollona, 2009; Carswell, 2013; Cross, 2014; Neveling 2017)
while paying special attention to rising trends of growing informal or
casualized labor arrangements (Higgins, 2005, Muehlebach, 2011, Weeks,
2015, Millar, 2014; 2018). A new body of literature on precarisation is
taking shape (Kofti, 2016; Stewart, 2012), seeking to explore theoretical
avenues for understanding contemporary dynamics around labor (Collins,
2016). There are now calls for a "global anthropology of labor" (Kasmir,
2014) and persistent efforts at linking retheorisations of labor with
similar advances in the study of neoliberal capitalism (Lambert, 2016;
Aguiar, 2006; De Neve, 2014). Labor also opens up towards the more familiar
terrain of anthropological research of kinship, gender, and community in
relation to social reproduction, which are now engaged within the wider
frameworks of cultural and class politics (Narotzky, 2014; Kalb, 2011).
Last but not least, anthropological labor has itself come under
ethnographic scrutiny, exploring how increased financial pressures,
flexibilisation and casualisation shape our engagement with communities, as
documented in the recent *Social Anthropology*forum on “Rethinking
Euro-Anthropology” (Martinez 2016). Stretched out between the horizon of
potentiality (Elliot, 2016) and the politics of inequality (Carrier, 2015),
labor occupies a central field in the anthropological preoccupation with
understanding the human condition.
The network for the anthropology of labor aims to bring together people
interested in various topics, ranging from macroscopic interests in
political and economic processes, over theoretical efforts at
reconceptualising productive and reproductive work and its value(s) for
social life, to more microscopic processes surrounding everyday work
experience. The network will be a venue for organising events and a hub for
sharing information on relevant resources and publications. Growing out of
the EASA #PrecAnthro initiative established around the 2016 Bi-Annual
Conference in Milan, the network will particularly help share experiences
on and organize counter-precarity activities. To achieve this, the network
will run a mailing list, a facebook site and sponsor panels that explore
and strengthen the network’s scope.
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M.
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