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Showing 1 to 20 of 188 for “"precarity"”.
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Lawyers of Egypt: class, precarity and politics
This dissertation examines the rising precarity of Egyptian lawyers and its consequences on their politics. In making sense of lawyers’ complex class and status situation, now professionals living through subaltern lives, I trace the making of the profession to historical transformations since the …
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Informality, Precarity, and (Mis)classification: Regulating Platform Work in India
This thesis seeks to address the misclassification of location-based digital platform workers in India and examine the extent of protections that can be accorded to them within the framework of labour and constitutional rights. It firstly argues that the exclusion of platform workers from the …
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An examination of employment precarity and insecurity in the UK
Employment precarity and insecurity are major topics of discussion within the sociology of work and in society at large. This thesis demonstrates the limits to the growth of precarity in the UK labour force. It contests the view that employment is becoming relentlessly more precarious in the …
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Experiences of precarity: Oral histories of K12 dance teachers in Delhi
… of economic, pedagogical, social, and personal precarity emerging from these narratives, this dissertation argues that these experiences illuminate aspects of the socio-political history of dance from the perspective of an invisibilized community within the dance ecosystem. Inspite of its …
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The Precarity of Images: Sci-fi Worldbuilding and its Uses in Agitprop
<p>“The Precarity of Images” examines how theories of worldbuilding common to the science fiction genre are applied to the making of agitational propaganda for liberation movements. In doing so, it questions how both explicit and implicit political images—posters, games, comics, illustrations, …
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Isililo sikaNandi: imagining dithyrambic dirge to performatively score the precarity of blackwomnhood
This study is an exploration of an embodied awareness and the plethora of ways in which what I am ‘falls short' - in relation to being “fully human” (Lugónes, 2010:743). It serves as the creative stimulus to actively explore and resist the ontological arrest of my blackwomnhood. This work aspires …
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Performance Writing, Objects and Millennial Precarity: A co-authored PaR exploration between friends
… housing and labour. For us, experiencing precarity means that fundamental aspects of what is required to experience what Lauren Berlant calls ‘a good life’ (including secure working contracts, renters’ rights, access to leisure time) are not being met. This leads to a feeling of ‘living on …
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Performance Writing, Objects and Millennial Precarity: A co-authored PaR exploration between friends
… housing and labour. For us, experiencing precarity means that fundamental aspects of what is required to experience what Lauren Berlant calls ‘a good life’ (including secure working contracts, renters’ rights, access to leisure time) are not being met. This leads to a feeling of ‘living on …
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Liminal Lives: How Ireland’s Labour Migration Regime Entraps Migrant Households in Hyper-precarity
… seeks to assess how labour migrants experience precarity traps in Ireland and the degree to which Irish government policy has been responsible for and responsive to labour migrants’ experience of precarity. The research also seeks to discern the impacts of precarity on migrants’ agency and …
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Smiling in the face of precarity: housing and eviction in Hangberg, South Africa
… suffering can be framed with the concept of precarity. Focusing on smiling and aspiring allows for an understanding of the capacity which people have to improve their own lives. It is in my opinion a tool for empowering people's voices and agency. Precarity allows us, on the other hand, to …
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Creating Rhetorical Subjectivities: Negotiating the Precarity of the Homo Oeconomicus in the Neoliberal Workplace
<p>The ubiquitous impact of the neoliberal economy on our everyday life leads to questions of rhetorical significance. This project strives to incorporate service labor experience as a source as well as an effect of rhetoric thereby embodying materialist notions of the body at the site of …
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Precarity and pastoral care : nuns and bishops in the fifteenth-century diocese of Lincoln.
… and inequities that did little to alleviate the precarity of medieval English nuns.
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Black Bodies in the Open City: Precarity and Belonging in the work of Teju Cole
… and essays as sustained demonstrations of precarity, as theorised by Judith Butler in Precarious Life (2004). Though never directly cited by Cole, Butler’s articulation of a shared condition of bodily vulnerability and interdependency offers a generative critical framework through which to …
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Rights + Capacity = Access to Justice: A Visual Exploration of Housing Precarity for Five Equity-Deserving Groups
… in-depth interviews paint a picture of housing precarity and bring a new visual model to life while illustrating the importance of addressing both rights and capacity as critical elements toward achieving more holistic justice outcomes. What does the axis of rights and capacity look like for …
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From Crises to Ordinary Precarity: Palestinian Youth as New Practitioners of Humanitarian Governance in Amman, Jordan
… in humanitarian governance, and to conditions of precarity in urbanized camps which are increasingly incorporating new refugees. This dissertation examines localized humanitarian practices in the Palestinian refugee camps of Jordan and focuses particularly upon a repertoire of care known locally …
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Precarity and Resilience: An Ecofeminist Reading of the African Child in Fiction by Contemporary Women Writers
… the continent in which the child’s experience of precarity is foregrounded in relation to the slow violence perpetuated by legacies of extractivist colonialism and neo-colonialism, both historical and current. The Uncertainty of Hope (2006) by Zimbabwean writer, Valerie Tagwira, How Beautiful We …
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Through Our Eyes: A Photovoice Study of Belonging, Precarity, and Possibility with International Students in Higher Education
… Rivers University experience and navigate precarity within academic capitalism. Grounded in critical pedagogy and the critical-transformative paradigm, the research sought to understand belonging, exclusion, and possibility from participants' perspectives, using participant-generated …
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Enduring intersectional precarity: A history of resistance by women informal traders in Harare (Zimbabwe), c. 1965 to 2022
The thesis examines livelihoods through an intersectional and gendered framework, emphasizing survival amid complex and intersecting forces, including structural racial and gendered marginalisation; socio-economic crises; systemic absence of State support; punitive regulation of the informal sector …
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