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Narrating Poverty and Precarity in Britain
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ISBN: 311036574X 3110391368 9783110365740 9783110391367 9783110367935 3110367939 3110365758 Year: 2014 Publisher: Berlin Boston

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Poverty and precarity have gained a new societal and political presence in the twenty-first century's advanced economies. This is reflected in cultural production, which this book discusses for a wide range of media and genres from the novel to reality television. With a focus on Britain, its chapters divide their attention between current representations of poverty and important earlier narratives that have retained significant relevance today.The book's contributions discuss the representation of social suffering with attention to agencies of enunciation, ethical implications of 'voice' and 'listening', limits of narratability, the pitfalls of sensationalism, voyeurism and sentimentalism, potentials and restrictions inherent in specific representational techniques, modes and genres; cultural markets for poverty and precarity. Overall, the book suggests that analysis of poverty narratives requires an intersection of theoretical reflection and a close reading of texts.


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Home care fault lines
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ISBN: 1501749269 1501749285 9781501749278 9781501749285 1501749277 9781501749254 1501749250 9781501749261 Year: 2020 Publisher: Ithaca

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This revealing look at home care illustrates how elderly and disabled people and the immigrant women workers who assist them in daily activities develop meaningful relationships even when their different ages, abilities, races, nationalities, and socioeconomic backgrounds generate tension.


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Who knows tomorrow? : uncertainty in north-eastern Sudan
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ISBN: 1785330160 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York : Berghahn,

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Although uncertainty is intertwined with all human activity, plans, and aspirations, it is experienced differently: at times it is obsessed over and at times it is ignored. This ethnography shows how Rashaida in north-eastern Sudan deal with unknowns from day-to-day unpredictability to life-threatening dangers. It argues that the amplification of uncertainty in some cases and its extenuation in others can be better understood by focusing on forms that can either hold the world together or invite doubt. Uncertainty, then, need not be seen solely as a debilitating problem, but also as an opportunity to create other futures.


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Re-Imagining Class : Intersectional Perspectives on Class Identity and Precarity in Contemporary Culture
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ISBN: 9789461665690 9461665695 9789462704022 9462704023 Year: 2024 Publisher: [s.l.] : Universitaire Pers Leuven,

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Unique cross-cultural and multimedial approach to class identity and precarity in literature, theatre, and filmContemporary culture not merely reflects ongoing societal transformations, it shapes our understanding of rapidly evolving class realities. Literature, theatre, and film urge us to put the question of class back on the agenda, and reconceptualize it through the lens of precarity and intersectionality. Relying on examples from British, French, Spanish, German, American, Swedish and Taiwanese culture, the contributors to this book document a variety of aesthetic strategies in an interdisciplinary dialogue with sociology and political theory. Doing so, this volume demonstrates the myriad ways in which culture opens up new pathways to imagine and re-imagine class as an economic relation, an identity category, and a subjective experience. Situated firmly within current debates about the impact of social mobility, precarious work, intersectional structures of exploitation, and interspecies vulnerability, this volume offers a wide-ranging panorama of contemporary class imaginaries.Contributors: Magnus Nilsson (Malmö University), Christian Claesson (Lund University), Christoph Schaub (University of Vechta), Olaf Berwald (Middle Tennessee State University), Valeria Pulignano (KU Leuven), Lander Vermeerbergen (Radboud University), Markieta Domecka (KU Leuven) Deborah Dean (Warwick University), Sula Textor (Potsdam University), Irene Husser (University of Tübingen), Katrin Becker (University of Siegen), Marissia Fragkou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) Sarah Pogoda (Bangor University), Daniel Brookes (University of Worcester), Tim Christiaens (Tilburg University), Joeri Verbesselt (KU Leuven), Syaman Rapongan (writer).Ebook available in Open Access. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).


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Precarious lives : forced labour, exploitation and asylum
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ISBN: 9781447306900 1447306902 1322396515 1447311671 1447306929 1447320999 1447306910 9781447306917 9781447320999 9781447311676 9781447306924 Year: 2014 Publisher: Bristol, UK

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Engaging with contemporary debates about precarity, unfreedom and socio-legal status, this ground breaking book presents the first evidence of forced labour among displaced migrants who seek refuge in the UK.


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Bodies that still matter : resonances of the work of Judith Butler
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ISBN: 9048552508 9463722947 Year: 2021 Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press,

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Since the appearance of her early-career bestseller Gender Trouble in 1990, American philosopher Judith Butler is one of the most influential (and at times controversial) thinkers in academia. Her work addresses numerous socially pertinent topics such as gender normativity, political speech, media representations of war, and the democratic power of assembling bodies. The volume Bodies That Still Matter: Resonances of the Work of Judith Butler brings together essays from scholars across academic disciplines who apply, reflect on, and further Butler's ideas to their own research. It includes a new essay by Butler herself, from which it takes its title. Organized around four key themes in Butler's scholarship - performativity, speech, precarity, and assembly - the volume offers an excellent introduction to the contemporary relevance of Butler's thinking, a multi-perspectival approach to key topics of contemporary critical theory, and a testimony to the vibrant interdisciplinary discourses characterizing much of today's humanities' research.


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The para-academic handbook : a toolkit for making-learning-creating-acting
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ISBN: 191084926X 1910849278 095645075X Year: 2014 Publisher: Bristol, England : HammerOn Press,

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Para-Academic is a name for those under- and precariously employed, but actively working, academics in today's society. Specialists in all manner of things, from the humanities to the social and biological sciences, the para-academic works alongside the traditional university, sometimes by necessity, sometimes by choice, usually a mixture of both. The e-book of this work is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND. To view a copy of the licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Open Access PDF of this title is available from OAPEN, at this link - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/42468.


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Forms of a World
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ISBN: 9780823282241 082328607X 0823282244 0823282236 0823282228 9780823282234 9780823282227 9780823282210 082328221X Year: 2019 Publisher: New York, NY

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What happens when we think of poetry as a global literary form, while also thinking the global in poetic terms? Forms of a World shows how the innovations of contemporary poetics have been forged through the transformations of globalization across five decades. Sensing the changes wrought by neoliberalism before they are made fully present, poets from around the world have creatively intervened in global processes by remaking poetry’s formal repertoire. In experimental reinventions of the ballad, the prospect poem, and the ode, Hunter excavates a new, globalized interpretation of the ethical and political relevance of forms. Forms of a World contends that poetry’s role is not only to make visible thematically the violence of global dispossessions, but to renew performatively the missing conditions for intervening within these processes. Poetic acts—the rhetoric of possessing, belonging, exhorting, and prospecting—address contemporary conditions that render social life ever more precarious. Examining an eclectic group of Anglophone poets, from Seamus Heaney and Claudia Rankine to Natasha Trethewey and Kofi Awoonor, Hunter elaborates the range of ways that contemporary poets exhort us to imagine forms of social life and enable political intervention unique to but beyond the horizon of the contemporary global situation.


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Solidarische Mittelvergabe : Neue Perspektiven für die Zusammenarbeit in der freien Kunstszene
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ISBN: 3839468523 3837668525 Year: 2023 Publisher: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag,

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Die Covid-19-Pandemie hat das Leben freier Künstler*innen noch stärker prekarisiert, als es bereits zuvor der Fall war. Solidarität und Zusammenarbeit in der freien Szene sind daher wichtiger denn je. Doch was heißt es eigentlich, solidarisch zu sein? Kann die Förderung der freien darstellenden Kunst solidarisch sein? Was bedeutet es, Geld zu verteilen und warum ist die aktuelle Vergabe von Mitteln wenig solidarisch? Die Beiträger*innen fassen die Ergebnisse einer regelmäßigen, über zwei Jahre andauernden Diskussion um diese Fragen zusammen. Dabei stellen sie beziehungsorientierte Alternativen vor, um Kunstförderung neu zu organisieren - ein unabdingbarer Schritt hin zu einer fairen und gerechten Kulturlandschaft.


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Who Knows Tomorrow?
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ISBN: 9781785330162 1785330160 9781785330155 1785330152 178920089X Year: 2016 Publisher: New York Oxford

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Although uncertainty is intertwined with all human activity, plans, and aspirations, it is experienced differently: at times it is obsessed over and at times it is ignored. This ethnography shows how Rashaida in north-eastern Sudan deal with unknowns from day-to-day unpredictability to life-threatening dangers. It argues that the amplification of uncertainty in some cases and its extenuation in others can be better understood by focusing on forms that can either hold the world together or invite doubt. Uncertainty, then, need not be seen solely as a debilitating problem, but also as an opportunity to create other futures.

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