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The Monster ‘Within’: Capitalist Urbanization as Geometabolic Escalation
Development and Change, Volume 56, Issue 4-5, Page 668-728, July-September 2025.ABSTRACT This article challenges prevailing approaches to urban sustainability by reconceptualizing capitalist urbanization as a planetary process of geometabolic escalation. Hegemonic visions of sustainable cities render invisible the non‐city sociometabolic preconditions and consequences of urban life under capitalism.
Neil Brenner, Swarnabh Ghosh
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(Dis)locating Control: Transmigration, Precarity, and the Governmentality of Control [PDF]
, 2012 In this essay, the author takes up William Walters’ (2006) incitement to theorize transmigration through the Deleuzian concept of control. The importance of mechanisms, or technologies, that modulate population ows are explored by paying close attention ...
Joshua Kurz
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Gender, Work &Organization, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 202-242, January 2025.Abstract While in the last decade gender research has shown great interest in problems around work–life balance for women and the implications for their career mobility, the links between these and women's health and wellbeing have not been fully examined.
Inma Álvarez +2 more
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Gender, Work &Organization, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 330-350, January 2025.Abstract The present study explores the relationship between individualization and gender‐related disparities in teleworking. The research is part of a larger project evaluating a pilot program among administrative personnel at an Austrian university before implementing telework across the organization.
Maria Clar‐Novak
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How Does the Law Put a Historical Analogy to Work?: Defining the Imposition of “A Condition Analogous to That of a Slave” in Modern Brazil [PDF]
, 2017 Over the last decades, the Brazilian state has engaged in concerted legal efforts to identify and prosecute cases of what officials refer to as “slave labor” (trabalho escravo). At a conceptual level, the campaign has paired the constitutional protection
Augusto de Andrade Barbosa, Leonardo +2 more
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Working through (mis)recognition : understanding vulnerability as ambivalence in precarious worker subjectivity [PDF]
, 2023 Most workers around the world are part of the precariat, characterized by non-permanent, informal, short-term, low-pay, low-skill, and insecure jobs. While there have been many socio-economic critiques of the negative impacts of precarity on workers, the
Agar, Celal Cahit +3 more
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, 2017 The condition of precariousness not only provides insights into a segment of the world of work or of a particular subject group, but is also a privileged standpoint for an overview of the condition of the social on a global scale ...
Armano, Emiliana +2 more
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Prekarność i gender: Co ma z tym wspólnego miłość? [PDF]
, 2021 This article examines the concept of precarity from a feminist perspective, focused on love and affective labour, critically addressing the gender inequalities of neoliberal capitalism. The romantic, heterosexual model of love, typical for modern Western
Majewska, Ewa
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International Migration, Volume 62, Issue 4, Page 145-159, August 2024.Abstract This article contributes to two interconnected fields of study: recent literature on intra‐EU migration, specifically South–North flows; and scholarship into the impact of intersecting crises on (im)mobilities. Interest in intra‐EU mobilities has increased with the expansion of the EU and especially since the 2008 Great Recession, with a focus
Anastasia Bermudez, Beltrán Roca
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Vacancy as Precarious Property in Dublin's Temporary Urbanism Moment
Antipode, Volume 56, Issue 4, Page 1399-1418, July 2024.Abstract This paper makes a case for viewing vacancy as “precarious property” (Blomley 2020; Antipode 52[1]:36–57), i.e. less a material object defined by absence of use than the property relation (understood as a bundle of social, economic, legal, and political relationships) put under strain by the visibility of non‐use.
Cian O'Callaghan
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