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“The Brains Are Frozen”: Precarious Subjectivities in the Humanitarian Aid Sector in Jordan

Social Inclusion
Under the influence of neoliberal policies and marketisation dynamics, the humanitarian sector’s labour conditions become increasingly insecure. Based on one year of fieldwork in Amman, Jordan, and interviews with 39 aid professionals, this article ...
Brigit Ronde
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Precarity – Logical Consequence of Societies that Lost the Social [PDF]

The essay proposes an alternative understanding of social policy, focussing on social quality and as such bringing together biographical and societal development and as well institutional and communal concerns.
Herrmann, Peter
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Queer configurations: The female divine, regional identity, and Queer‐religious belonging in South India

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
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Social Quality and Precarity: Approaching New Patterns of Societal (Dis)Integration [PDF]

The main issue of this article is to discuss the question of ‘precarity’ in the context of the theory of social quality (see Beck et al, 2001), with which to pave the way for developing further the theoretical foundation of precarity.
Herrmann, Peter, van der Maesen, Laurent J.G.   +1 more
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Critique of Creativity: Precarity, Subjectivity and Resistance in the ‘Creative Industries’ [PDF]

, 2011
234 p. : il., Tablas.Libro ElectrónicoLa creatividad siempre está en movimiento: surge, se establece en el ente colectivo, palidece y desaparece a veces en el olvido; renace, vuelve con innovaciones, se reformula y resurge iniciando de nuevo el ciclo.
Raunig, Gerald (Ed.), Ray, Gene (Ed.), Wuggenig, Ulf (Ed.)   +2 more
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Caught in the fire: An accidental ethnography of discomfort in researching sex work

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on fifteen years of engagement with researching Israel's sex industry, this article uses accidental ethnography to propose discomfort‐as‐method for feminist anthropology. I argue that discomfort is not a by‐product of fieldwork but a constitutive condition that disciplines researchers and shapes what can be known.
Yeela Lahav‐Raz
wiley   +1 more source

Bearing the Unbearable: Double Controls and Disguised Precarity on China-Based Platforms

Social Media + Society
This article examines controls over platform laborers by platforms and states as well as the precarity of platform laborers. Adopting a multi-level approach, we put the spotlight on how states, platforms and laborers interact with each other when states ...
Le Lin, Grace Chun Guo
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White Collar Subcontracted Employees in the Public Health Sector: The Case of Fırat University Hospital

Journal of Economy Culture and Society, 2020
With the Health Transformation Program (HTP) in Turkey whose infrastructure was established in the 1980s and came into practice in 2003, a significant stage of the neo-liberal transformation process started in the field of public health services.
Sinan Acar
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The changing effects of social protection on poverty [PDF]

, 2010
This paper fits within a broader research programme concerned with the processes that link labour market precarity and social exclusion. Labour market insecurity manifests itself most directly in the form of unemployment, and other elements in the ...
Hauser, Richard, Nolan, Brian, Zoyem, Jean-Paul   +2 more
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Political participation of unemployed youth: the moderator effect of associational membership [PDF]

, 2015
This article discusses how associational membership can compensate for that lack of opportunities and motivation necessary for political participation that unemployment usually provokes.
Baglioni, Simone, Colloca, Pasquale, Theiss, Maria   +2 more
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