
Prem Kumar Rajaram: The Moral Economy of Precarity
The authors of The Anthropological Career in Europe (Fotta, Ivancheva and Pernes 2020) have made visible the inequality and hierarchy that has …
The authors of The Anthropological Career in Europe (Fotta, Ivancheva and Pernes 2020) have made visible the inequality and hierarchy that has …
(via FocaalBlog) In the general public, academics are often viewed as being part of an elite, who lives comfortable lives. In reality …
Covid19 is producing a crisis – both sanitary and economic – of global structural proportions, threatening the very existence of society as …
Every day across Europe hundreds of social anthropologists wake up knowing that their precarious employment conditions may one day force them to …
Leigh Bloch To cite this article: Leigh Bloch (2020) Academic Precarity and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Utopian Hope in a Moment of Crisis, …
SHARLI ANNE PAPHITIS On the 16th of March, I took one of my last trips into the office on the London Overground …
I recently came across this book by Stephen Campbell which examines migration and labour precarity in Thailand. The book is excellent and …
Over two decades have passed since Croatia embarked upon a transition towards a market economy. Even though it is the EU’s most …
Over two decades have passed since Croatia embarked upon a transition towards a market economy. Even though it is the EU’s most …
In Shock Therapy: Psychology, Precarity and Well-Being in Postsocialist Russia, Thomas Matza offers an ethnographic account that explores the rise of psychotherapy in …
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by Matthew Clark Discourses on graduate employability have increasingly gained a prominent position in higher education (HE). Although a bemoaned topic for …
We asked Annual Meeting workshop organizers to give our blog readers a sneak peek at the events they have planned for AmAnth2018. This post …
A specter haunted EASA2018—the specter of precarity. Like a “frightful hobgoblin” (that, one could argue, is a more suitable, if inaccurate, translation …
A recent issue of Medicine Anthropology Theory devoted to the critique of global health partnerships (GHPs) raises a question of great significance to …
Yesterday, Cultural Anthropology updated its recent forum on academic precarity with several additional essays, including one that I wrote about the role …
This text, written by our guest editor Salvatore Poier, is a plea for solidarity and a request to engage in a vigorous …
…A Quick Manifesto by a group of Anthropology and Global Studies students at the University of Sussex As both consumers of knowledge capital, and …
Unfortunately, precarity in academia has become a well-worn cliché… not least of all for those of us living in this state of …
Unfortunately, precarity in academia has become a well-worn cliché… not least of all for those of us living in this state of …
“On politics and precarities in academia”- this was the title of the EASA seminar held at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University …
The EASA AGM Seminar in Bern simply came in a bad time. It confronted me with a dilemma: while I was eager …
This conversation took place after a workshop entitled “Between precarious norms and empowering alternatives – a workshop on the strategies of labour …
Let me start with a confession: Throughout the past year or so I have become somewhat hesitant to attend conferences and other …
EASA’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) Symposium “On politics and precarities in academia: anthropological perspectives” took place in mid-November at the University of …