The hustle economy Thieme, Tatiana Adeline
Progress in human geography,
08/2018, Volume:
42, Issue:
4
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
This article deploys the conceptual frame of hustle to examine the everyday dealings associated with uncertainty and accepted informalities that pervade realms of everyday life amongst youth in ...precarious urban geographies. In doing so, the discussion advances the theoretical linkages between prolonged periods of ‘waithood’, alternative interpretations of work, and experiments within the everyday city more broadly. The article argues that the hustle economy is a localized but globally resonant condition of contemporary urbanism, coupling generative possibilities that emerge from everyday experiences of uncertainty and management of insecurities associated with ‘life work’ outside the bounds of normative social institutions.
Solar power is uniquely effective at mitigating the climate crisis and is becoming the cheapest form of energy globally. However, the proliferation of solar power has been uneven and inequitable. For ...example, large-scale solar infrastructures are awash with globalized financial capital, often developed through the gendered and racialized alienation of land and livelihoods of local marginalized populations. The imperative to mitigate the climate crisis within this consequential decade sadly supersedes equity considerations, inspiring many solar scholars to scream for solar justice. We posit that solar development is an aporia, a perplexing prefigured yet performed impasse against sustainability and equity that anticipates urgent implementation while requiring patient interrogation. In this synthesis overview, we examine the state of social science research on solar power to illuminate critically constructive scholarly inquiry, foster emancipatory praxis, and generate provocations for future research. The articles in this collection explore the aporias of solar photovoltaic development in the global North and global South from heterogeneous scholarly fields, methodological approaches, theoretical frameworks and case studies.
•Solar development is an aporia•Global proliferation of solar power has been uneven and inequitable•Review of injustices at each node of solar value chain•Articles illuminate critically constructive scholarly inquiry, foster emancipatory praxis, and generate provocations for future research
This research paper explores the liminal state of existence and self-identity of ordinary people in the militarised state of Kashmir. In doing so, it aims to conceptually examine the precarity of ...self and the sequential element, vulnerability in Shahnaz Bashir’s novel, The Half Mother. The insurgency and violence of 1990s caused by the political and religious disputes necessitated militarisation in the territory. Violence and conflicts further emerged in the process of imposing law and order by troops in the forms of abduction and investigation of civilians on the pretext of suspicion stimulated the precarity of existence and identity of ordinary Kashmiris. In the case of Bashir’s novel, it narrates the uncertainty of existence, self and psyche of the protagonist Haleema, whose son goes missing in the militarised region giving her an indefinite status, ‘Half Mother’. The state of precarity discusses the sense of diffused identity and the vulnerability experienced by the victims of violence. Hence, this article employs Judith Butler’s concept of precarity explained in Precarious Lives to construe the state of vulnerability and the effectuated dehumanisation due to precarity of self through Shahnaz Bashir’s The Half Mother. Further, the paper also identifies the liminal state of the protagonist from the stages of self and existence questioning the human rights violations of the perpetrators.
Labour geography 1 Strauss, Kendra
Progress in human geography,
08/2018, Volume:
42, Issue:
4
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
This progress report examines the relationship between continued growth in the sub-field of labour geography, especially in research on migration, and the concept of precarity. An increasingly ...dominant frame in critical studies of labour and the employment relation, and resonant in the political sphere within (and now beyond) Europe, precarity has seen slower uptake by geographers. However, research on migrant labour and emerging work on technological change, flexibilization, restructuring and insecurity is employing precarity as a multi-dimensional conceptual framework. In this sense, I argue that the distinction between notions of precarity grounded in political economy and those grounded in political philosophy is increasingly – and productively – blurred. As I illustrate, this blurring is apparent in labour geography’s ongoing and deepening engagement with precarity, yet our distinctive contribution to a spatialized theorization of precarity remains, I argue, an open question.
In seinem neuesten Statusreport vom Juni 2022 schreibt das UNHCR, dass die Anzahl von Menschen die weltweit in erzwungener Vertreibung leben, 100 Millionen überschritten hat. Zwangsmigration gehört ...damit zweifellos zu den wichtigsten Themen unserer Zeit und fiktionale Texte, vor allem auch speculative fiction, können ethisch und politisch relevante Fragen innerhalb von Flucht- und Migrationsdiskursen aufwerfen. Der vorliegende Artikel untersucht Merlinda Bobisʼ Roman Locust Girl: A Lovesong (2015), der die Fluchtgeschichte der Protagonistin Amedea durch eine grausame postapokalyptische Welt erzählt und konzentriert sich auf die Zusammenhänge der Darstellung von politisch hervorgerufener precarity, refugeeness und daraus resultierenden ethischen Forderungen. Judith Butlers Ausführungen zu precarity dienen im Artikel als Grundlage, um die Situation der Geflüchteten im Roman zu beleuchten. Im ersten Schritt werden die Zwangsinhaftierung der Geflüchteten in Lager und ihre Kontrolle durch die Machthabenden, die über erzwungene Hungersnöte und den Raub von individuellem und kulturellem Gedächtnis bis hin zu Massenvernichtungen geht, untersucht. Darüber hinaus spielt die Ausbeutung der Geflüchteten, als pervertierte Grenzwachen, Sexarbeiter*innen oder im Handel mit Körperteilen, eine zentrale Rolle, um den ethischen Anspruch des Romans darzulegen. Zuletzt wird die besondere Art des Storytelling im Text als Widerstand und eine Form der kollektiven Geschichtsschreibung von den Rändern gelesen. Ich argumentiere schlussendlich, dass Locust Girl: A Lovesong auf besondere Art eine körperlich prekäre Fluchterfahrung erzählt, die klar eine ethische Forderung stellt: Die Notwendigkeit politscher Systeme, die für Nicht-Büger*innen gleichermaßen arbeiten wie für Büger*innen.Die
Hyper-precarious lives Lewis, Hannah; Dwyer, Peter; Hodkinson, Stuart ...
Progress in human geography,
10/2015, Volume:
39, Issue:
5
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
This paper unpacks the contested inter-connections between neoliberal work and welfare regimes, asylum and immigration controls, and the exploitation of migrant workers. The concept of precarity is ...explored as a way of understanding intensifying and insecure post-Fordist work in late capitalism. Migrants are centrally implicated in highly precarious work experiences at the bottom end of labour markets in Global North countries, including becoming trapped in forced labour. Building on existing research on the working experiences of migrants in the Global North, the main part of the article considers three questions. First, what is precarity and how does the concept relate to working lives? Second, how might we understand the causes of extreme forms of migrant labour exploitation in precarious lifeworlds? Third, how can we adequately theorize these particular experiences using the conceptual tools of forced labour, slavery, unfreedom and precarity? We use the concept of ‘hyper-precarity’ alongside notions of a ‘continuum of unfreedom’ as a way of furthering human geographical inquiry into the intersections between various terrains of social action and conceptual debate concerning migrants’ precarious working experiences.
Gender inequality within the university is well documented but proposals to tackle it tend to focus on the higher ranks, ignoring how it manifests within precarious work. Based on data collected as ...part of a broader participatory action research project on casual academic labour in Irish higher education, the article focuses on the intersection of precarious work and gender in academia. We argue that precarious female academics are non‐citizens of the academy, a status that is reproduced through exploitative gendered practices and evident in formal/legal recognition (staff status, rights and entitlements, pay and valuing of work) as well as in informal dimensions (social and decision‐making power). We, therefore, conclude that any attempts to challenge gender inequality in academia must look downward, not upward, to the ranks of the precarious academics.
This special issue intervenes in the scholarship on domestic space on screen by adopting a specific focus on the home as a space of resistance across different geographies and time periods, from the ...1960s to today. The articles utilise a mix of research methods, from archival to participatory documentary. Considering debates from fields such as home movie studies, virtual reality, media activism, and the relationship between film and urbanism, the articles in this special issue demonstrate how film and media can address resistance centred around the concept of home. They also challenge and offer alternative views to white, heteronormative, middle-class representations of domestic life. These articles provide insights into the challenges and importance of home for marginalised groups, suggest new ways for film and media studies to approach representation, and centre the portrayal of often overlooked communities. Central to these articles is the idea of home and the use of media as a form of resistance and agency that can be used to contest mainstream perspectives. Each article looks at what home means, whether it’s a place of safety, precarity, identity, or memory, with each essay looking at how media shape or challenge our views of home and social identity.
This study employed focus groups to examine the ways Syrian refugees living in a large refugee camp in Jordan are using cell phones to cope with information precarity, a condition of information ...instability and insecurity that may result in heightened exposure to violence. These refugees are found to experience information precarity in terms of technological and social access to relevant information; the prevalence of irrelevant, sometimes dangerous information; inability to control their own images; surveillance by the Syrian state; and disrupted social support.
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