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Precarity and agency through a migration lens [PDF]
Citizenship Studies, 2016 This special issue leverages the migrant experience to better understand precarity and agency in the contemporary world. By way of introduction, we examine the broader bodies of literature on precarity and agency, relate them to research on migration ...
Marcel Paret, Shannon Gleeson
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cultural geographies of precarity [PDF]
Cultural Geographies, 2018 This article introduces a Special Issue on ‘cultural geographies of Precarity’. In recent years, the term precarity has become increasingly prevalent in geographical literature. And yet, to date, there remains limited discussion regarding how precarity is being culturally, as well as socially and economically, entrenched.
Harris, Ella, Nowicki, Mel
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Introduction: Urban Precarity [PDF]
City & Society, 2021 AbstractCities have long been associated with precarity. This link seems to have intensified under contemporary global regimes of capitalism, with both popular and academic discourses noting the risks that come with building and inhabiting urban environments.
Brian Campbell, Christian Laheij
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BMC Public Health, 2023 The COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affected those who face historical and ongoing marginalization. In centering pandemic experience of recent immigrant women in the accommodation and food services sector in Canada, we examine how their precarious ...
Alice Mũrage, Julia Smith
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Precarity of Self: Identifying the Liminal Borders of Self in Shahnaz Bashir’s The Half Mother [PDF]
Litinfinite, 2023 This research paper explores the liminal state of existence and self-identity of ordinary people in the militarised state of Kashmir. In doing so, it aims to conceptually examine the precarity of self and the sequential element, vulnerability in Shahnaz ...
L. Swathi
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BMJ Open, 2022 Objectives COVID-19 lockdown measures have challenged people’s mental health, especially among economically vulnerable households. The objective of this study was to investigate the impact of exposure to COVID-19 shocks (defined as job loss, living cost ...
Rebecca Bentley +2 more
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Living through Precarity: A Butlerian Study of Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland
Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, 2021 This article aims to explore Judith Butler’s concept of precarity in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland. The questions this study seeks to find answers to are: What are the various manifestations of Butler’s notion of precarity in The Lowland?
Alireza Farahbakhsh, Peyman Hoseini
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Studies in Social Justice, 2020 This article explores precarity as a conceptual framework to understand the intersection of migration and low-waged work in the global south. Using a case study of cross-border migrant domestic workers in South Africa, I discuss current debates on ...
Zaheera Jinnah
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Theory, reality, and possibilities for a digital/communicative socialist network society [PDF]
, 2020 Digital capitalism is guided by the organising principles of digital automation, information processing, and communication. It rests on the consolidation of relations of exploitation of digital labour based on flexibility and generating precarity.
Boucas, D., Boucas, D.
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