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De-westernizing creative labour studies: The informality of creative work from an ex-centric perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Creative labour studies focus almost exclusively on Euro-American metropolitan ‘creative hubs’ and hence the creative worker they theorize is typically white, middle-class, urban and overwhelmingly male.
Alacovska, A., Gill, R.
core   +2 more sources

Who cares? The social care sector and the future of youth employment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1332 ...
Baglioni, Simone   +3 more
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The Fragile Home of a Precarious Girl: A Butlerian Study of Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie. Part One [PDF]

open access: yesDialogica: Revistă de Studii Culturale și Literatură
The 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
doaj   +1 more source

Making Ordinary: Recuperating the Everyday in Post-2005 Beirut Novels [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
I argue that young Lebanese novelists like Sahar Mandour and Hilal Chouman mobilize the ordinary as a way to 'write out' of the literary legacy of war and trauma writing that have characterized Lebanese fiction, without denying or suppressing Lebanon's ...
Ghenwa Hayek
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A Language Spoken with Words: Decolonization, Knowledge Production and Environmental Injustice in the Work of Abdulrazak Gurnah

open access: yesNalans, 2023
The paper analyses the relationship between decolonization, climate change, and environmental injustice as represented in the writings of Abdulrazak Gurnah. Gurnah’s work is considered an example of decolonial literature.
Ferreira Maria João
doaj   +1 more source

Intimations of Precarity in Twenty-First-Century U.S. Drama: Faltering Voices of the Precariat in Annie Baker’s The Flick

open access: yesCultura, Lenguaje y Representación, 2021
While much critical attention as been devoted to the representation of precarity on the European stages, and in British theatre in particular, dramatic texts produced in the United States that concern, depict and represent the lives of members of the so-
Ana Fernández-Caparrós
doaj   +1 more source

Urbanity, Precarity, and Homeland Activism. Burmese Migrants in Global Cities

open access: yesMoussons, 2013
This article interrogates the link between urbanity and “precarity of place” for non-citizen populations, relying on evidence drawn from the transnational homeland activities of Burmese migrants in two global cities (Bangkok and Tokyo).
Susan Banki
doaj   +1 more source

Seeing the "Changing Nature of Work" through a Precarity Lens

open access: yesGlobal Labour Journal, 2020
This article reviews the concept of precarity and offers critical reflections on its contribution to the study of contemporary labour and livelihoods.
Richard W. Mallett
doaj   +1 more source

The making of precarity: an ethnography on precarious workers in Auckland, New Zealand

open access: yesKōtuitui
The following article focuses on the everyday struggles of precarious workers in Auckland, New Zealand. As an excerpt from an ethnography on lived precarity in Auckland City, it reveals structural constraints that precarious workers face daily.
Marko Galič
doaj   +1 more source

Creating personas for political and social consciousness in HCI design [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Personas have become an important tool for Human-Computer Interaction professionals. However, they are not immune to limitations and critique, including stereotyping.
De Paoli, Stefano   +3 more
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