Precarious Places
Social, Cultural and Economic Aspects of Uncertainty and Anxiety in Everyday Life
Editors: Rachwał, Tadeusz, Hepp, Rolf-Dieter, Kergel, David (Eds.)
Free Preview- The spatial scope of anxieties and uncertainties
- Cross-disciplinary perspective on the various aspects of precariousness
- Includes a historical view on the making of precarious places
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- About this book
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The book offers a cross-disciplinary perspective on various aspects of precariousness in contemporary culture and society, concentrating on the topographical aspects of sources and causes of uncertainty and anxiety. Precariousness and precarity are themselves provisional and uncertain categories, though ones inviting to rethinking the scopes of precarity and precariousness from the perspective of locality and of places involved in their otherwise global range. The recent years have shown some ways in which precarity has changed its status and has become a strongly debated area not only in economic and political disputes, but also in philosophical debates and various fields of research related to cultural studies. The articles included in the volume address the spatial scope of anxieties and uncertainties involving numerous men and women affected by the several decades of the neoliberal insistence on various kinds of flexibility which, in turn, has put in motion numerous new mechanisms of exclusion and marginalization. Apart from this, a historical view on the making of precarious places is also offered in the pages of the book.
- About the authors
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Dr. Tadeusz Rachwał is Professor at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw, Poland.Dr. Rolf Hepp is professor for Sociology at the FU Berlin, Germany.Dr. David Kergel is Lector at the University Siegen, Germany.
- Table of contents (10 chapters)
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A Banality of Evil: Precarity as the Offspring of Individualism
Pages 1-17
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Artists’ Precarity in the Context of Their Social Integration
Pages 19-39
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Socioanalysis Beyond Borders: Fieldwork in a Social World in Crisis
Pages 41-50
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Training for Work at the Margins of the Projective City
Pages 51-71
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Placelessness and Precarity. Mobility of Labor in Quasi-Utopian Spaces
Pages 73-83
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Precarious Places
- Book Subtitle
- Social, Cultural and Economic Aspects of Uncertainty and Anxiety in Everyday Life
- Editors
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- Tadeusz Rachwał
- Rolf-Dieter Hepp
- David Kergel
- Series Title
- Prekarisierung und soziale Entkopplung – transdisziplinäre Studien
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-658-27311-8
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-658-27311-8
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-658-27310-1
- Series ISSN
- 2509-3266
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XII, 164
- Number of Illustrations
- 1 b/w illustrations
- Topics