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Mayday, Mayday, Mayday! Moving from European discourses on the precarious and art to the realities of contemporary dance [PDF]
, 2019 In this article, we encapsulate several key debates in sociology, cultural and arts politics and the media industry on precarious work since its emergence at the turn of the twenty-first century. After setting out the fundamental discourses on precarity,
Laermans, Rudi +2 more
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The Formal, the Informal, and the Precarious: Making a Living in Urban Papua New Guinea [PDF]
, 2020 For many Papua New Guineans, the dominant accounts of 'the economy' contained within development reports, government documents and the media do not adequately reflect their experiences of making a living.
Cox, John +4 more
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Precarity and Agency through a Migration Lens [PDF]
, 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 ...
Gleeson, Shannon, Paret, Marcel
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BMJ Open, 2020 Objectives To investigate the association between maternal employment precarity and infant low birth weight (LBW), and to assess if this association differs by race/ethnicity.Methods Data were collected from 2871 women enrolled in the National ...
Anjum Hajat +4 more
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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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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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Bangladeshi Migrants of Italy and Their Precarity
Social Sciences, 2019 Over the past years much attention has been placed on the ordeal of migrants as they leave their home countries and seek refuge or better lives in others.
Nilanjana Roy, Amy Verdun
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The turn to precarity in twenty-first century fiction [PDF]
, 2014 This is an open access article. Copyright © 2014 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH.Recent years have seen several attempts by writers and critics to understand the changed sensibility in post-9/11 fiction through a variety of new -isms.
Morrison, J
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Semantic web learning technology design: addressing pedagogical challenges and precarious futures [PDF]
, 2016 Semantic web technologies have the potential to extend and transform teaching and learning, particularly in those educational settings in which learners are encouraged to engage with ‘authentic’ data from multiple sources. In the course of the ‘Ensemble’
Carmichael, Patrick
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People and Nature, 2020 Precarity has not been applied in the context of fisheries‐based work, even as working conditions in fisheries are emerging to be a real issue. There has been limited analysis of fish work outside the media spotlight or how changing ecological and ...
Melissa Marschke +2 more
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