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Theory & Event, 2021 This paper explores the intricate relationship between precarity and coloniality. It argues that discussions and experiences of precarity—defined as the increased vulnerability to exploitative working and living conditions—are historically steeped in colonial and racial violence. It stages a critique of the recently-emerged scholarship on the future of
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Anthropologist, heal thyself: Toward an anthropology of healing through relational interbeing
Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract I call for an anthropology that confronts its own woundedness. Anthropologists often bear witness to suffering but rarely examine how our own grief, trauma, and institutional distress shape the affective tone of our work. Drawing on fieldwork with Runa (Quechua) women affected by forced sterilization in Peru and guided by my collaborator and ...
Lucía Isabel Stavig
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Comparative Migration StudiesThis article seeks to position Istanbul through the practices of everyday life of middle-class, skilled migrants from both the Global North and South and their perceptions of urban safety and precarity.
Ezgi Tuncer
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Traveling Yellow Peril: Race, Gender, and Empire in Japan's English Teaching Industry [PDF]
, 2017 Contemporary U.S. white migrants working in Japan long-term as English teachers find themselves in an increasingly precarious labor market. When reacting to industry flexibilization, the U.S.
Owens, Christina D.
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Making care audible: Musical gifts and affective reciprocity in the clinic
Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract In clinical settings, music therapy is frequently received as a gift—a voluntary offering that invites but does not demand participation. Drawing on ethnographic research with music therapists and patients in Canadian and American hospitals, this article examines how clinical care is co‐constituted through practices of giving, receiving, and ...
Meredith Evans
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Service Work as Lived Experience: A Problematizing Review
Human Resource Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Between employee burnout and growing recruitment challenges, a systemic crisis confronts the service industry. One reason lies in the scope of received human resource management (HRM) approaches, which often emphasize organizational performance metrics at the expense of the emotional, social, and material experiences of doing frontline service
Kushagra Bhatnagar +2 more
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Aspiring workers or striving consumers? Rethinking social exclusion in the era of consumer capitalism [PDF]
, 2017 https://doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2017 ...
Baglioni, Simone, Monticelli, Lara
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Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Longstanding violence against Asians serves as an urgent reminder for counselors to engage in culturally responsive counseling. Despite the uptick of mental health research associated with Asian communities, aggregated trends on counseling and mental health services with Asians overlook distinct inequities and historical implications ...
Christian D. Chan +2 more
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DiGeSt: Journal of Diversity and Gender StudiesMigrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe dives into six main themes that correspond to different aspects of the migrant academic experience.
Luisa Voss, Zuzanna Ściborska
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