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A Capability Approach to Understand the Scarring Effects of Unemployment and Job Insecurity: Developing the Research Agenda [PDF]

, 2020
Having a poor start in the labour market has a ‘scarring’ effect on future employment and well-being. Indeed, unemployment at any point of the life-course can scar.
Beck, Vanessa, Egdell, Valerie
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A Language Spoken with Words: Decolonization, Knowledge Production and Environmental Injustice in the Work of Abdulrazak Gurnah

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

, 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, Forbes, Paula, Sachy, Marco, Wilson, Anna   +3 more
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Intimations of Precarity in Twenty-First-Century U.S. Drama: Faltering Voices of the Precariat in Annie Baker’s The Flick

Cultura, 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
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Tertiary time: The precariat's dilemma [PDF]

, 2013
Progressive politics has always been about the struggle to reduce social inequities and inequalities. What takes priority depends on the type of society we live in.
Appadurai, Arendt, Bayart, Bourdieu, Castree, Ciborra, Corbridge, Darnton, Davies, Guy Standing, Hammer, Hardt, Harvey, Heydebrand, Jeffrey, Kaplan, Kundera, Leff, Linder, Mbembe, National Conference on Citizenship, Nice, Standing, Thompson   +23 more
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Seeing the "Changing Nature of Work" through a Precarity Lens

Global 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
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City as lens: (re)imagining youth in Glasgow and Hong Kong [PDF]

, 2017
In recent years, a paradox has emerged in the study of youth. On the one hand, in the context of the processes of globalization, neoliberalism and precarity, the patterning of leisure and work for young people is becoming increasingly convergent across ...
Batchelor, Susan, Fraser, Alistair, Ling, Leona Li Ngai, Whittaker, Lisa   +3 more
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Urbanity, Precarity, and Homeland Activism. Burmese Migrants in Global Cities

Moussons, 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
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Feelings of Change: Alternative Feminist Professional Trajectories [PDF]

, 2017
Book chapter in "Feeling Academic in the Neoliberal University: Feminist Flights, Fights and Failures" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, eds. Y Taylor, K. Lahad) ABSTRACT By 2008 concepts of precariousness, insecurity, temporary or episodic labor in the new ...
Lovin, C. Laura
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The making of precarity: an ethnography on precarious workers in Auckland, New Zealand

Kōtuitui
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
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