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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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Maintaining trust in uncertain times: Funding pauses and the ethical cost to community‐engaged research

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Federal funding pauses, once considered rare, are increasingly disrupting the stability and continuity of community‐engaged research. Even projects with active, awarded grants are experiencing the strain of funding uncertainty, raising substantive concerns among research teams and community partners. These disruptions extend beyond operational
Brynn E. Sheehan
wiley   +1 more source

Housing Precarity in Russia: Measurements in Regions and Federal Districts

Changing Societies & Personalities
Housing precarity has become an increasingly prominent issue over the past two decades, attracting sustained attention from researchers across multiple disciplines.
Denis B. Litvintsev
doaj   +1 more source

Phenomenology of precarity

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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Precarious Employment Relations as a Factor of Social Pollution [PDF]

, 2016
The paper discusses the assessment of precarious employment relations as one of the systemic factors of social pollution. The social pollution phenomenon in employment relations is caused by employers who use a strategy for the reduction of labour costs ...
Dvorakova, Z., Fyodorova, А. E., Katashinskikh, V. S.   +2 more
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Tracing the future of migrants’ labour relations. Experiences of institutionalised migrant precarity in Denmark and Greece [PDF]

, 2020
Restrictive migration laws, fracturing of citizenship and neoliberal labour markets intertwine with persistent migration flows to produce migrant precarity in the European context.
Bak Jørgensen, Martin, Floros, Konstantinos   +1 more
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Understanding the Housing and Support Experience of People With Complex Disability in Australia: A Qualitative Analysis of Submissions to the Disability Royal Commission

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2019, the Australian government established the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability (‘Disability Royal Commission’, DRC) to investigate widespread mistreatment of people with disability. Nearly 10,000 people with disability, their families and supporters engaged with the DRC.
Kate D'Cruz, Fiona Carey, Libby Witts, Jessie Spence, Peter Mulherin, Megan Topping, Di Winkler, Jacinta Douglas   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Precarity, Permits, and Prayers: “Working Practices” of Congolese Asylum-Seeking Women in Cape Town

Africa Spectrum, 2022
This paper provides an ethnographic reading of how Congolese women, in particular aslyum seekers with temporary permits, navigate Cape Town's informal urban economy.
Henrietta Nyamnjoh, Suzanne Hall, Liza Rose Cirolia   +2 more
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National Disability Insurance Scheme and Quality of Life Among Carers of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder in Australia: A Thematic Analysis

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder in Australia have increased considerably in recent years. The current study investigated how the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) impacts quality of life (QoL) among carers of children with autism spectrum disorder.
Jesse Gerhard, Sharon L. Grant
wiley   +1 more source

A systematic review of migrants’ non-employment precarity–conceptualizations by scholars and migrants’ narratives

Comparative Migration Studies
Precarity is a term capturing the migrants’ situation under globalization and migration-driven uncertainties. Many have attempted to explain the precarity in terms of employment changes, but fewer in terms of non-employment ones.
Suet Lin Hung, Chi Yuen Lai, Kwok Kin Fung   +2 more
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