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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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Frontiers in Sociology, 2020 The concept of precarity is increasingly used for an analysis of standard and non-standard (atypical) employment forms—yet among atypical employment forms, platform-driven work is rarely included.
Marta Kahancová +2 more
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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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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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East Asian Journal of Philosophy, 2020 Edmund Husserl’s phenomenological method has mostly been applied to epistemological questions. However, it also has great potential for analysing phenomena of social and political relevance. This text outlines a phenomenology of social precariousness, showing how it impacts the experiential, temporal, perceptual and self-perceptual structures of the ...
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The Fragile Home of a Precarious Girl: A Butlerian Study of Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie. Part One [PDF]
Dialogica: Revistă de Studii Culturale și LiteraturăThe present article aims to explore Butler’s notion of precarity in Williams’s The Glass Menagerie. Agencies that induce precarity in characters of the play, Laura in particular, reaction to the repercussions of precariousness and the ways it leads to a ...
Ladan Farah BAKHSH
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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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The Gig is Up: Who does Gig Economy actually Benefit? [PDF]
Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems, 2021 This article takes on the task of exploring gig economy in its various forms and definitions, starting from its economic origins as a way to reduce transaction costs and overheads in firms making use of modern technology, and working up to some of its ...
Luka Bulian
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Unemployment, employment precarity, and inflammation [PDF]
Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 2020 2 Unemployment has been associated with poorer health, but few studies have examined the biological mechanisms that confer these health decrements. Further, no studies to date have examined differences across employment groups to consider whether employment (in whatever means) is preferential in terms of health.
Sumner, Rachel C +3 more
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