Tag: Precarity

Free Download Nick Bernards, "The Global Governance of Precarity: Primitive Accumulation and the Politics of Irregular Work "
English | ISBN: 1138303720 | 2018 | 176 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1369 KB + 903 KB
‘Standard’ employment relationships, with permanent contracts, regular hours, and decent pay, are under assault. Precarious work and unemployment are increasingly common, and concern is also growing about the expansion of informal work and the rise of ‘modern slavery’. However, precarity and violence are in fact longstanding features of work for most of the world’s population. Lamenting the ‘loss’ of secure, stable jobs often reflects a strikingly Eurocentric and historically myopic perspective.

Free Download Mara Ferreri, "The Permanence of Temporary Urbanism: Normalising Precarity in Austerity London "
English | ISBN: 9462984913 | 2021 | 194 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Temporary urbanism has become a distinctive feature of urban life after the 2008 global financial crisis. This book offers a critical exploration of its emergence and establishment as a seductive discourse and as an entangled field of practice encompassing architecture, visual and performative arts, urban regeneration policies and planning. Drawing on seven years of semi-ethnographic research, it explores the politics of temporariness from a situated analysis of neighbourhood transformation, media representations and wider political and cultural shifts in austerity London. Through a longitudinal engagement with projects and practitioners, the book tests the power of aesthetic and cultural interventions and highlights tensions between the promise of vacant space re-appropriation and its commodification. Against the normalisation of ephemerality, it presents a critique of the permanence of temporary urbanism as a glamorisation of the anticipatory politics of precarity which are transforming cities, subjectivities and imaginaries of urban action.

Free Download Helen T. Boursier, "Precious Precarity: A Spirituality of Borders"
English | ISBN: 1506489575 | 2024 | 254 pages | PDF | 36 MB
Borders are places of collision. People and politics, compassion and cruelty, law and lawlessness, hope and despair, idealism and ideology, life and death-all collide at the border. But these collisions have human faces. North and south, rich and poor, nuns and nones, desperation and courage-a spirit draws all these poles together and a spirituality animates their encounter.

Free Download Om Prakash Dwivedi, "Representations of Precarity in South Asian Literature in English"
English | ISBN: 3031068165 | 2022 | 323 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book analyzes precarious conditions and their manifestations in recent South Asian literature in English. Themes of disability, rural-urban division, caste, terrorism, poverty, gender, necropolitics, and uneven globalization are discussed in this book by established and emerging international scholars. Drawing their arguments from literary works rooted in the neoliberal period, the chapters show how the extractive ideology of neoliberalism invades the cultural, political, economic, and social spheres of postcolonial South Asia. The book explores different forms of "precarity" to investigate the vulnerable and insecure life conditions embodied in the everyday life of South Asia, enabling the reader to see through the rhetoric of "rising Asia".

Free Download Om Prakash Dwivedi, "Representations of Precarity in South Asian Literature in English"
English | ISBN: 3031068165 | 2022 | 323 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book analyzes precarious conditions and their manifestations in recent South Asian literature in English. Themes of disability, rural-urban division, caste, terrorism, poverty, gender, necropolitics, and uneven globalization are discussed in this book by established and emerging international scholars. Drawing their arguments from literary works rooted in the neoliberal period, the chapters show how the extractive ideology of neoliberalism invades the cultural, political, economic, and social spheres of postcolonial South Asia. The book explores different forms of "precarity" to investigate the vulnerable and insecure life conditions embodied in the everyday life of South Asia, enabling the reader to see through the rhetoric of "rising Asia".

Free Download Pandemics as Matter of a System Crisis: Precarity of Society by Peter Herrmann
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 152 Pages | ISBN : 365843449X | 6.3 MB
Pandemics – it seems that it had been the beginning of a new era, after a first shock wave a new normality commenced trying to, repress the complex challenges while living under a new Sword of Damocles. Origins and consequences of the virus had been frequently issued, but only little attention had been paid to structural problems of societies, making it difficult to cope with the exceptional situation. The present book, focusing on the German polity and its structural weakness, analysis the situation in a historical perspective. It is completed by an essayist globalist outlook on the pandemics.

Free Download Representing Poverty and Precarity in a Postcolonial World
by Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp, Marion Gymnich
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9004465650 | 302 Pages | True PDF | 3.83 MB

Free Download Sam Whiting, "Small Venues: Precarity, Vibrancy and Live Music"
English | ISBN: 1501379887 | 2023 | 238 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 3 MB
Throughout the history of popular music, the careers of many culturally significant artists and groups began on the small stages of local bars clubs, pubs, and discotheques. When the stories of The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and the New York punk hardcore and post punk scenes are told, iconic venues such as The Cavern, The Marquee and CBGB’s serve as the settings of their early chapters Small live music venues such as these are pivotal in the narratives and history of popular music. However, very few of them survive. This book focusses on the role of small live music venues as incubators for emerging talent and social hubs for music scene participants. Such venues are grassroots spaces of cultural labor and production that often struggle with issues of financial precarity yet are fundamental to the live music ecology of a city, acting both as platforms for emergent performers and spaces of sociality for local music scenes.

Free Download Harry Pettit, "The Labor of Hope: Meritocracy and Precarity in Egypt"
English | ISBN: 1503636534 | 2023 | 240 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Technological advancements, expanding education, and unfettered capitalism have encouraged many around the world to aspire to better lives, even as declines in employment and widening inequality are pushing more and more people into insecurity and hardship. In Egypt, a generation of young men desire fulfilling employment, meaningful relationships, and secure family life, yet find few paths to achieve this. The Labor of Hope