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Expanding the youth discourse: everyday precarity through a young South Korean woman’s autoethnography

International Journal of Adolescence and Youth
This study expands the youth discourse in South Korea through an autoethnographic account. The concept of precarity is explored through multifaceted attributes such as subjective feelings, subjectification, and daily practices.
Hyeran Jeong
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Superfluity and Precarity [PDF]

, 2018
In this essay I take up Butler’s and Arendt’s respective accounts of the production of precarity and superfluity, asking whether they are proximate accounts, as they seem to be, or whether Butler’s turn to precarity misses the radical nature of Arendt’s ...
null null, Peg Birmingham
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‘It's all very well having a diverse curriculum, but if there is no curriculum, it can be as diverse as you like’: Precarity and decolonising in the neoliberal UK higher education system

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing upon interview research across two academic departments as part of the early stages of a ‘decolonise the curriculum’ initiative at a Southern UK university, this study highlights a growing gulf between policy and practice in efforts to address systemic racial inequalities in UK universities. A reliance upon precarious labour, a culture
Triona Fitton, Barbara Adewumi, Laura R. Bailey, Jacob W. Moore, Lauren‐Marie Aba Amoah   +4 more
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Locating precarization: the state, livelihoods and the politics of precarity in contemporary Portugal

Dialectical Anthropology, 2019
This article explores the themes of precarity and precarization by looking at specific historical conjunctures in the recent history of Portuguese capitalist development, relevant because of their enduring influence in shaping the mutual constitution of state-led projects of accumulation and development, dominant waged regimes and emergent normative ...
Matos, P.
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‘Sometimes, I would look at my books and cry because I felt like I was left behind’: Understanding the learning of Indigenous girls during the COVID‐19 pandemic in the districts of Chongwe and Solwezi in Zambia

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Grounded in principles of epistemic justice, this article examines the educational impacts of Zambia's COVID‐19 school closures on Indigenous girls in two districts and highlights community‐led pathways for resilience. National responses prioritised broadcast and digital delivery but presupposed access to electricity, digital devices and ...
Marcellus Forh Mbah, Leigh Jarvis, Ane Turner Johnson, Chidi Ezegwu, Priscillah Nsama, Austine Nakanga   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ecologies of precarity in twenty-first century theatre: politics, affect, responsibility [PDF]

, 2018
Presenting a critical investigation of the reinvigoration of the political in contemporary British theatre, this study provides a fresh understanding of how theatre has engaged with issues of human vulnerability and responsibility in the last two decades.
Fragkou, M.
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Beyond salaries: Teachers' experiences of navigating early years education amid economic instability in Türkiye

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The intersection of economic conditions and early years education has long been debated, particularly where financial constraints shape educational practice and professional realities. Türkiye, characterised by high inflation and structural vulnerabilities in purchasing power parity, provides a critical context for examining how economic ...
Ebru Aydın, Şerif Yüksel
wiley   +1 more source

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.
van der Maesen, Laurent J.G., Herrmann, Peter   +1 more
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Precarity Activism [PDF]

Activist networks throughout Europe developed the concept of precarity at the turn of the 21st century. Retail chain employees, freelancers, cultural workers, caregivers and university adjuncts alike, including those labeled natives or migrants ...
Casas-Cortés, Maribel
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Precarity and international relations [PDF]

, 2020
This book addresses the implications of current thinking on precarity, precariousness and the precariat for the study of International Relations and International Political Economy.

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