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Precarious Places

Social, Cultural and Economic Aspects of Uncertainty and Anxiety in Everyday Life

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Editors:
  1. Tadeusz Rachwał

    1. University of Social Sciences & Humanities Chodakowska, Warszawa, Poland

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  2. Rolf Hepp

    1. Institut für Soziologie, FU Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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  3. David Kergel

    1. Carl von Ossietzky Universität, Oldenburg, Germany

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  • 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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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. A Banality of Evil: Precarity as the Offspring of Individualism

    • Ronald C. Arnett
    Pages 1-17

  3. Artists’ Precarity in the Context of Their Social Integration

    • António M. Duarte
    Pages 19-39

  4. Socioanalysis Beyond Borders: Fieldwork in a Social World in Crisis

    • Franz Schultheis
    Pages 41-50

  5. Training for Work at the Margins of the Projective City

    • Fernando Marhuenda-Fluixá, Ángeles Molpeceres-Pastor
    Pages 51-71

  6. Placelessness and Precarity. Mobility of Labor in Quasi-Utopian Spaces

    • Tadeusz Rachwał
    Pages 73-83

  7. The Social and Political Implications of the Precariat. A Backlash or a Transformation of the Post Fordism Formation?

    • Piotr Sałustowicz
    Pages 85-107

  8. Warsaw: Precarious Spaces, Precarious Memories

    • Piotr Skurowski
    Pages 109-122

  9. On the Uses of Precarity. Knowledge, Innovation and Academic Labour in Precarious Times

    • Jan Sowa
    Pages 123-138

  10. Start Ups, Social Networking and Self-Tracking—The Neoliberal Freedom of the Entrepreneurial Self in the Digital Age

    • David Kergel, Rolf Hepp
    Pages 139-147

  11. Revisiting Territories of Relegation: Class, Ethnicity and State in the Making of Advanced Marginality

    • Loïc Wacquant
    Pages 149-164
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About this book

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.


Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Social Sciences & Humanities Chodakowska, Warszawa, Poland

    Tadeusz Rachwał

  • Institut für Soziologie, FU Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Rolf Hepp

  • Carl von Ossietzky Universität, Oldenburg, Germany

    David Kergel

About the editors

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.









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