Precarious Times: Precarious Spaces

Beyond the edges of the map: The ghost city of Ordos Kangbashi - Christina Lee, Senior Lecturer, Curtin University The ghost city phenomenon in China first came to international attention in 2009 in an Al Jazeera report. A combination of different factors, including the ways in which state planning works and the global financial crisis, … Continue reading Precarious Times: Precarious Spaces →

Precarious Times: Banal Precarity

The symposium opened with a panel on Banal Precariousness. Anne Allison, Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University, spoke on "Cleaning up dead remains in times of living/dying all alone: social singlification in Japan", building on her book, Precarious Japan. As demographic changes happen in Japan, many older people have become worried about dying alone rather … Continue reading Precarious Times: Banal Precarity →

UDC2015 Circuits of Struggle Day 3: commoning, digital infrastructures and/for social movements, and white men taking up space

Social Reproduction and the Emerging Institutions of the Common opened with Fiona Jeffries' and Pablo Mendez' work on 'Domesticating the struggle! Commoning Care in the Global Encampment'. Jeffries, presenting, framed the encampment protest-form recently (re)popularised by Occupy and other Squares movements as a way of making the domestic visible. The encampment challenges the binaries of … Continue reading UDC2015 Circuits of Struggle Day 3: commoning, digital infrastructures and/for social movements, and white men taking up space →