1.
Pargas, Damian Alan; Schiel, Juliane (Ed.)
The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History Book
2023.
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2.
Batista, Anamarija
Referenzierung der jugoslawischen Architektur in zeitgenössischen Praxen und ihre Bedeutung für die Verhandlung des Phänomens Luxus Book Chapter Forthcoming
In: Viderman, Tihomir (Ed.): Unsettled – Urban routines, temporalities and contestations , Forthcoming.
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This text scrutinizes the concept of luxury in the context of self-governing socialism as the subject matter of particular importance in challenging and unsettling contemporary thought, thus making it transgressive.
3.
Hackett, Sarah
Britain’s Rural Muslims: Rethinking Integration. Book
2020.
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4.
Suodenjoki, Sami; Enbom, Leena; Pesonen, Pete
Valvottu ja kuritettu työläinen. Book
2020.
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This volume consists of articles, which focus on the controlling and disciplining of workers in Finland from the late 19th to the early 21st century. The anthology addresses the practices of political surveillance and control of workers and working-class activists, gendered norms of artistic and sports workers, attitudes to cheats at work, and the direction and control of working-class housing.
5.
Fudge, Judy
(Re)Conceptualizing Unfree Labour: Local Labour Control Regimes and Constraints on Workers‘ Freedoms‘ Journal Article
In: Global Labour Journal , vol. 10, iss. 2, pp. 108-122, 2019.
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Disputes over the meaning of human trafficking, forced labour and modern slavery have both provoked and coincided with a reinvigorated debate in academic and policy literatures about how to conceptualise unfree labour. This article traces the contours of the debate over free and unfree labour, identifying its key stakes as the debate has developed and paying particular attention to recent interventions. It begins by identifying a problem common to both canonical liberal and Marxian approaches to the free/unfree labour distinction, which is to fetishise the labour market. It then discusses the consensus that is emerging across disciplines and in leading international organisations that labour unfreedom in contemporary capitalism is best conceptualised as a continuum rather than a binary, highlighting recent disciplinary-specific contributions. It argues that the metaphor of a continuum of labour unfreedom obscures more than it illuminates. Drawing upon the growing body of literature that advocates a multifaceted approach to labour unfreedom, this article argues that a robust concept of local labour control regime does a much better job of capturing the complex mix of consent and coercion involved in extracting value from labour power than the idea of a continuum of labour unfreedom.
6.
Kaarsholm, Preben; Frederiksen, Bodil Folke
Amaoti and Pumwani: Studying Urban Informality in South Africa and Kenya Journal Article
In: African Studies, vol. 79, iss. 1, pp. 51-73, 2019.
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7.
Škobla, Daniel; Filčák, Richard
Mundane Populism: Politics, Practices and Discourses of Roma Oppression in Rural Slovakia Journal Article
In: Sociologia Ruralis, 2019.
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In this article authors explore populist politics, discourses and social practices of antiziganism in rural regions of eastern Slovakia. The authors came to the conclusion that essential components of contemporary right-wing populism rest on what is characterised as ongoing racialized stigmatisation of Roma, reconfiguring previously racially uncategorised issues into ethnic problems and thus reinforcing the oppression of the disempowered Roma.
8.
Tornhill, Sofie
The Business of Women’s Empowerment. Corporate Gender Politics in the Global South Book
2019.
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9.
Tornhill, Sofie
The Business of Women’s Empowerment. Corporate Gender Politics in the Global South Book
2019.
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10.
Filčák, Richard; Szilvasi, Marek; Škobla, Daniel
No Water for the Poor: The Roma Ethnic Minority and Local Governance Journal Article
In: Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 41, iss. 7, pp. 1390-1407, 2018.
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11.
Fudge, Judy
Modern Slavery, Unfree Labour and the Labour Market: The Social Dynamics of Legal Characterization Journal Article
In: Social and Legal Studies, vol. 27, iss. 4, pp. 413-434, 2018.
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12.
Harnoncourt, Julia
Trabalho Escravo im Amazonasgebiet: Peripherisierung, unfreie Arbeit und Weltmarkt Journal Article
In: Zeitschrift für Weltgeschichte, vol. 19, iss. 2, pp. 315-336, 2018.
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13.
Kuldova, Tereza
The “Ethical Sell” in the Indian Luxury Fashion Business Book Chapter
In: Pouillard, Véronique; Blaszczyk, Regina Lee (Ed.): European fashion: The creation of a global industry, pp. 263-282, 2018.
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14.
Weber, Klaus
Die Gefängnisindustrie in den USA: Zur Verschränkung von Arbeits-, Wohlfahrts- und Strafregimen im Neoliberalismus [The prison industry in the USA: About the entanglement of regimes of work, welfare and punishment in neoliberalism] Journal Article
In: Kritische Justiz, vol. 50, iss. 2, pp. 187-194, 2017.
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15.
Kuldova, Tereza
Luxury Indian Fashion: A Social Critique Book
2016.
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In recent years, contemporary Indian design has dismissed the influence of the West and has focused on the opulent heritage luxury of the maharajas, Gulf monarchies and the Mughal Empire. Luxury Indian Fashion argues that the desire for a luxury aesthetic has become a significant force in the attempt to define contemporary Indian society. From the cultivation of erotic capital in businesswomen's dress to a discussion of masculinity and muscular neo-royals to staged designer funerals, Luxury Indian Fashion analyzes the production, consumption and aesthetics of luxury and power in India.
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16.
Kuldova, Tereza
Fatalist Luxuries: Of Inequality, Wasting and Anti-Work Ethic in India Journal Article
In: Cultural Politics, vol. 12, iss. 1, pp. 110-129, 2016.
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17.
Mendiola, Fernando
The role of unfree labour in capitalist development: Spain and its empire, 19th-21st centuries Journal Article
In: International Review of Social History , vol. 61, pp. 187-211, 2016.
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This article contributes to the debate on the persistence of forced labour within capitalist development. It focuses on Spain, which has been deeply rooted in the global economy, firstly as a colonial metropolis, and later as part of the European Union. In the first place, I analyse the different modalities of unfree labour. The article goes on to deal with the importance of the main economic reasons driving the demand for forced labour.
18.
Škobla, Daniel; Filčák, Richard
Infrastructure in Marginalised Roma Settlements: Towards a Typology of Unequal Outcomes of EU Funded Projects Journal Article
In: Sociológia, vol. 48, no. 6, pp. 620-640, 2016.
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Although a substantial number of infrastructure projects funded from EU funds were implemented to address labour market participation and living conditions of Roma/Gypsy, the outcomes had been inconclusive. In this paper the authors suggest that significant factors affecting the outcomes of EU projects aimed at Roma/Gypsy are structural conditions, power asymmetries, and rooted social practices at the local level. Employing P. Bourdieu’s conceptual framework and building on extensive fieldwork in municipalities of eastern and southern Slovakia, the authors identify three types of project outcomes.
19.
Živković, Predrag
Antropološka misao rizičnog društva [The Anthropological thought of a risky society] Book Chapter
In: Slobodan Vukićević, (Ed.): »Постсоциализм (Черногория-Россия 1990-2015)« Москва: МГУ имени М.В. Ломоносова Социологический факультет / Институт социологии и психологии Филозофский факультет Черногории, pp. 333-376, 2016.
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20.
Ćeranić, Goran
Social exclusiveness and the character of competitiveness of the montenegrin social system Journal Article
In: Sociološka luča, vol. IV, iss. 2, pp. 21-37, 2010.
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2023
Pargas, Damian Alan; Schiel, Juliane (Ed.)
The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History Book
2023.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, 20th century, abolition, ancient history, contemporary, early modern history, global labour history, longue duree, medieval history, slavery
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2022
Batista, Anamarija
Referenzierung der jugoslawischen Architektur in zeitgenössischen Praxen und ihre Bedeutung für die Verhandlung des Phänomens Luxus Book Chapter Forthcoming
In: Viderman, Tihomir (Ed.): Unsettled – Urban routines, temporalities and contestations , Forthcoming.
Abstract | Tags: architecture, contemporary, socialism, yugoslavia
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This text scrutinizes the concept of luxury in the context of self-governing socialism as the subject matter of particular importance in challenging and unsettling contemporary thought, thus making it transgressive.
2020
Hackett, Sarah
Britain’s Rural Muslims: Rethinking Integration. Book
2020.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, agrarian labour and rural history, contemporary, migration and mobility, muslims, oral history, qualitative research, united kingdom
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Suodenjoki, Sami; Enbom, Leena; Pesonen, Pete
Valvottu ja kuritettu työläinen. Book
2020.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, 20th century, contemporary, finland, housing, social control, working class
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This volume consists of articles, which focus on the controlling and disciplining of workers in Finland from the late 19th to the early 21st century. The anthology addresses the practices of political surveillance and control of workers and working-class activists, gendered norms of artistic and sports workers, attitudes to cheats at work, and the direction and control of working-class housing.
2019
Fudge, Judy
(Re)Conceptualizing Unfree Labour: Local Labour Control Regimes and Constraints on Workers‘ Freedoms‘ Journal Article
In: Global Labour Journal , vol. 10, iss. 2, pp. 108-122, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: capitalism, contemporary, dependency, forced labour, labour markets, new history of work, slavery
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issue = {2},
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abstract = {Disputes over the meaning of human trafficking, forced labour and modern slavery have both provoked and coincided with a reinvigorated debate in academic and policy literatures about how to conceptualise unfree labour. This article traces the contours of the debate over free and unfree labour, identifying its key stakes as the debate has developed and paying particular attention to recent interventions. It begins by identifying a problem common to both canonical liberal and Marxian approaches to the free/unfree labour distinction, which is to fetishise the labour market. It then discusses the consensus that is emerging across disciplines and in leading international organisations that labour unfreedom in contemporary capitalism is best conceptualised as a continuum rather than a binary, highlighting recent disciplinary-specific contributions. It argues that the metaphor of a continuum of labour unfreedom obscures more than it illuminates. Drawing upon the growing body of literature that advocates a multifaceted approach to labour unfreedom, this article argues that a robust concept of local labour control regime does a much better job of capturing the complex mix of consent and coercion involved in extracting value from labour power than the idea of a continuum of labour unfreedom.
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Disputes over the meaning of human trafficking, forced labour and modern slavery have both provoked and coincided with a reinvigorated debate in academic and policy literatures about how to conceptualise unfree labour. This article traces the contours of the debate over free and unfree labour, identifying its key stakes as the debate has developed and paying particular attention to recent interventions. It begins by identifying a problem common to both canonical liberal and Marxian approaches to the free/unfree labour distinction, which is to fetishise the labour market. It then discusses the consensus that is emerging across disciplines and in leading international organisations that labour unfreedom in contemporary capitalism is best conceptualised as a continuum rather than a binary, highlighting recent disciplinary-specific contributions. It argues that the metaphor of a continuum of labour unfreedom obscures more than it illuminates. Drawing upon the growing body of literature that advocates a multifaceted approach to labour unfreedom, this article argues that a robust concept of local labour control regime does a much better job of capturing the complex mix of consent and coercion involved in extracting value from labour power than the idea of a continuum of labour unfreedom.
Kaarsholm, Preben; Frederiksen, Bodil Folke
Amaoti and Pumwani: Studying Urban Informality in South Africa and Kenya Journal Article
In: African Studies, vol. 79, iss. 1, pp. 51-73, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: africa, contemporary, informality, kenya, qualitative research, South Africa, urbanity
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volume = {79},
issue = {1},
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abstract = {Based on the authors’ parallel projects of research and fieldwork inurban informal settlements in Durban and Nairobi, the article usescomparison to bring out similarities and differences in thedynamics of informality in a South African and Kenyan setting. Thearticle examines three dimensions of informality – the informal economy, informal housing and informal politics – as they play intothe lives of youth, popular culture, moral debate, and local politicalcontestations. The two historical trajectories of settler colonial statebuilding and urban influx control and segregation in South Africaand Kenya are contrasted, together with the struggles that accompanied decolonisation and the transitions to democracy. The article discusses the ways in which informal entrepreneurship has different weight and possibilities in the South African and theKenyan case, and shows the impact of different expectations ofstate delivery in the two environments. In conclusion, the authorstry to assess comparatively whether developments in the two cases of urban informal settlement in Durban and Nairobi are converging,or whether they exhibit different patterns of urban integration.
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Škobla, Daniel; Filčák, Richard
Mundane Populism: Politics, Practices and Discourses of Roma Oppression in Rural Slovakia Journal Article
In: Sociologia Ruralis, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: central and eastern europe, contemporary, roma, slovakia, sociology
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Tornhill, Sofie
The Business of Women’s Empowerment. Corporate Gender Politics in the Global South Book
2019.
Abstract | Tags: business history, contemporary, development, ethnography, gender, informality, qualitative research, sociology
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Tornhill, Sofie
The Business of Women’s Empowerment. Corporate Gender Politics in the Global South Book
2019.
Abstract | Tags: business history, contemporary, development, ethnography, gender, informality, qualitative research, sociology
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2018
Filčák, Richard; Szilvasi, Marek; Škobla, Daniel
No Water for the Poor: The Roma Ethnic Minority and Local Governance Journal Article
In: Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 41, iss. 7, pp. 1390-1407, 2018.
Abstract | Tags: contemporary, infrastructure, roma, slovakia, sociology
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abstract = {This article contributes to the emerging critiques of inequalities in the access to water by focusing on three inter-related aspects: affordability, accessibility and quality of water. Based on extensive fieldwork, the paper explores the situation in segregated Roma settlements in Slovakia and highlights the critical role of power asymmetries at a local level. It builds a conceptual framework using Bourdieu’s notions of “social field”, “habitus”, “doxa”, and “capital”, highlighting the central role of power asymmetries at a local level. Insights are drawn on how dominantly positioned social actors command decision-making regarding water supply, and how social hierarchies, inequalities and the “positionality” of Roma as a marginalized group are functional to the lack of political will to address insufficient water access for Roma in any efficient manner.
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Fudge, Judy
Modern Slavery, Unfree Labour and the Labour Market: The Social Dynamics of Legal Characterization Journal Article
In: Social and Legal Studies, vol. 27, iss. 4, pp. 413-434, 2018.
Abstract | Tags: capitalism, contemporary, labour markets, marxism, slavery, united kingdom
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issue = {4},
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abstract = {Treating the United Kingdom’s Modern Slavery Act as its focus, this article examines what the legal characterization of labour unfreedom reveals about the underlying conception of the labour market that informs contemporary approaches to labour law in the United Kingdom. It discusses how unfree labour is conceptualized within two key literatures – Marxist-inspired political economy and liberal approaches to modern slavery – and their underlying assumptions of the labour market and how it operates. As an alternative to these depictions of the labour market, it proposes a legal institutionalist or constitutive account. It develops an approach to legal characterization and jurisdiction that is attentive to modes of governing and the role of political and legal differentiation both in producing labour exploitation and unfree labour and in developing strategies for its elimination. It argues that the problem with the modern slavery approach to unfree labour is that it tends to displace labour law as the principal remedy to the problem of labour abuse and exploitation, while simultaneously reinforcing the idea that flexible labour markets of the type that prevails in the United Kingdom are realms of labour freedom.
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Harnoncourt, Julia
Trabalho Escravo im Amazonasgebiet: Peripherisierung, unfreie Arbeit und Weltmarkt Journal Article
In: Zeitschrift für Weltgeschichte, vol. 19, iss. 2, pp. 315-336, 2018.
Abstract | Tags: brazil, contemporary, forced labour, globalisation, latin america
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Kuldova, Tereza
The “Ethical Sell” in the Indian Luxury Fashion Business Book Chapter
In: Pouillard, Véronique; Blaszczyk, Regina Lee (Ed.): European fashion: The creation of a global industry, pp. 263-282, 2018.
Tags: contemporary, india, textile industry
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2017
Weber, Klaus
Die Gefängnisindustrie in den USA: Zur Verschränkung von Arbeits-, Wohlfahrts- und Strafregimen im Neoliberalismus [The prison industry in the USA: About the entanglement of regimes of work, welfare and punishment in neoliberalism] Journal Article
In: Kritische Justiz, vol. 50, iss. 2, pp. 187-194, 2017.
Tags: contemporary, convict labour, economic and social policy, neoliberalism, punishment, social control, united states
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title = {Die Gefängnisindustrie in den USA: Zur Verschränkung von Arbeits-, Wohlfahrts- und Strafregimen im Neoliberalismus [The prison industry in the USA: About the entanglement of regimes of work, welfare and punishment in neoliberalism]},
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2016
Kuldova, Tereza
Luxury Indian Fashion: A Social Critique Book
2016.
Abstract | Tags: contemporary, ethnography, india, textile industry
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In recent years, contemporary Indian design has dismissed the influence of the West and has focused on the opulent heritage luxury of the maharajas, Gulf monarchies and the Mughal Empire. Luxury Indian Fashion argues that the desire for a luxury aesthetic has become a significant force in the attempt to define contemporary Indian society. From the cultivation of erotic capital in businesswomen's dress to a discussion of masculinity and muscular neo-royals to staged designer funerals, Luxury Indian Fashion analyzes the production, consumption and aesthetics of luxury and power in India.},
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This unique ethnographic investigation examines the role that fashion plays in the production of the contemporary Indian luxury aesthetic. Tracking luxury Indian fashion from its production in village craft workshops via upmarket design studios to fashion soirées, Kuldova investigates the Indian luxury fashion market's dependence on the production of thousands of artisans all over India, revealing a complex system of hierarchies and exploitation.
In recent years, contemporary Indian design has dismissed the influence of the West and has focused on the opulent heritage luxury of the maharajas, Gulf monarchies and the Mughal Empire. Luxury Indian Fashion argues that the desire for a luxury aesthetic has become a significant force in the attempt to define contemporary Indian society. From the cultivation of erotic capital in businesswomen's dress to a discussion of masculinity and muscular neo-royals to staged designer funerals, Luxury Indian Fashion analyzes the production, consumption and aesthetics of luxury and power in India.
In recent years, contemporary Indian design has dismissed the influence of the West and has focused on the opulent heritage luxury of the maharajas, Gulf monarchies and the Mughal Empire. Luxury Indian Fashion argues that the desire for a luxury aesthetic has become a significant force in the attempt to define contemporary Indian society. From the cultivation of erotic capital in businesswomen's dress to a discussion of masculinity and muscular neo-royals to staged designer funerals, Luxury Indian Fashion analyzes the production, consumption and aesthetics of luxury and power in India.
Kuldova, Tereza
Fatalist Luxuries: Of Inequality, Wasting and Anti-Work Ethic in India Journal Article
In: Cultural Politics, vol. 12, iss. 1, pp. 110-129, 2016.
Abstract | Tags: contemporary, ethnography, india, qualitative research, textile industry, work ethics
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abstract = {This article, grounded in long-term ethnographic research among producers of contemporary luxurious embroideries and fashions in Lucknow, a North Indian city famous for its golden age as a powerful cultural center of opulence and excess, shows how anthropological knowledge can enrich current critical discussions of luxury and inequality. Since the 1990s, anthropology has seen a boom in consumption and material culture studies coterminous with the rise of identity politics and its celebration of diversity. In anthropological theory, as well, linking consumption to identity has stolen the limelight. In the process, questions of production, inequality, and reproduction of social structures have been overshadowed. Critical reappraisal of luxury in anthropological theory can paradoxically show us a way out of this identity trap, since luxury, unlike other consumer goods, demands that we think about inequality. Luxury also forces us to think beyond luxury brands, goods, and commodified experiences, pushing us toward more fundamental questions about what constitutes a good life, morality, and social order. The ethnographic case presented here, which reveals how structural violence can go hand-in-hand with paradoxical luxuries facilitated by fatalist attitudes, points to what such an anthropology of luxury might look like. In a village near Lucknow, women embroider luxury pieces for fashion ramps and celebrities, while being fed meritocratic dreams of individual progress and success by fashion designers and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) who try to convince them to work ever harder in the name of empowerment. But the women laugh at luxury goods, designers, and middle-class activists and, instead, insist on an antiwork ethic and a valorization of leisure—on wasting time over working; they prefer to “luxuriate” rather than indulge in luxury goods. However, this perception of luxury is connected to hierarchical inequality and a sense of social fatalism that has been reinvigorated through new experiences with competitive inequality, neoliberal pollution, and the false promises of meritocracy.},
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This article, grounded in long-term ethnographic research among producers of contemporary luxurious embroideries and fashions in Lucknow, a North Indian city famous for its golden age as a powerful cultural center of opulence and excess, shows how anthropological knowledge can enrich current critical discussions of luxury and inequality. Since the 1990s, anthropology has seen a boom in consumption and material culture studies coterminous with the rise of identity politics and its celebration of diversity. In anthropological theory, as well, linking consumption to identity has stolen the limelight. In the process, questions of production, inequality, and reproduction of social structures have been overshadowed. Critical reappraisal of luxury in anthropological theory can paradoxically show us a way out of this identity trap, since luxury, unlike other consumer goods, demands that we think about inequality. Luxury also forces us to think beyond luxury brands, goods, and commodified experiences, pushing us toward more fundamental questions about what constitutes a good life, morality, and social order. The ethnographic case presented here, which reveals how structural violence can go hand-in-hand with paradoxical luxuries facilitated by fatalist attitudes, points to what such an anthropology of luxury might look like. In a village near Lucknow, women embroider luxury pieces for fashion ramps and celebrities, while being fed meritocratic dreams of individual progress and success by fashion designers and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) who try to convince them to work ever harder in the name of empowerment. But the women laugh at luxury goods, designers, and middle-class activists and, instead, insist on an antiwork ethic and a valorization of leisure—on wasting time over working; they prefer to “luxuriate” rather than indulge in luxury goods. However, this perception of luxury is connected to hierarchical inequality and a sense of social fatalism that has been reinvigorated through new experiences with competitive inequality, neoliberal pollution, and the false promises of meritocracy.
Mendiola, Fernando
The role of unfree labour in capitalist development: Spain and its empire, 19th-21st centuries Journal Article
In: International Review of Social History , vol. 61, pp. 187-211, 2016.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, 20th century, capitalism, contemporary, forced labour, spain
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year = {2016},
date = {2016-01-01},
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volume = {61},
pages = {187-211},
abstract = {This article contributes to the debate on the persistence of forced labour within capitalist development. It focuses on Spain, which has been deeply rooted in the global economy, firstly as a colonial metropolis, and later as part of the European Union. In the first place, I analyse the different modalities of unfree labour. The article goes on to deal with the importance of the main economic reasons driving the demand for forced labour.
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This article contributes to the debate on the persistence of forced labour within capitalist development. It focuses on Spain, which has been deeply rooted in the global economy, firstly as a colonial metropolis, and later as part of the European Union. In the first place, I analyse the different modalities of unfree labour. The article goes on to deal with the importance of the main economic reasons driving the demand for forced labour.
Škobla, Daniel; Filčák, Richard
Infrastructure in Marginalised Roma Settlements: Towards a Typology of Unequal Outcomes of EU Funded Projects Journal Article
In: Sociológia, vol. 48, no. 6, pp. 620-640, 2016.
Abstract | Tags: central and eastern europe, contemporary, labour markets, roma, slovakia, sociology
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year = {2016},
date = {2016-01-01},
journal = {Sociológia},
volume = {48},
number = {6},
pages = {620-640},
abstract = {Although a substantial number of infrastructure projects funded from EU funds were implemented to address labour market participation and living conditions of Roma/Gypsy, the outcomes had been inconclusive. In this paper the authors suggest that significant factors affecting the outcomes of EU projects aimed at Roma/Gypsy are structural conditions, power asymmetries, and rooted social practices at the local level. Employing P. Bourdieu’s conceptual framework and building on extensive fieldwork in municipalities of eastern and southern Slovakia, the authors identify three types of project outcomes.
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Although a substantial number of infrastructure projects funded from EU funds were implemented to address labour market participation and living conditions of Roma/Gypsy, the outcomes had been inconclusive. In this paper the authors suggest that significant factors affecting the outcomes of EU projects aimed at Roma/Gypsy are structural conditions, power asymmetries, and rooted social practices at the local level. Employing P. Bourdieu’s conceptual framework and building on extensive fieldwork in municipalities of eastern and southern Slovakia, the authors identify three types of project outcomes.
Živković, Predrag
Antropološka misao rizičnog društva [The Anthropological thought of a risky society] Book Chapter
In: Slobodan Vukićević, (Ed.): »Постсоциализм (Черногория-Россия 1990-2015)« Москва: МГУ имени М.В. Ломоносова Социологический факультет / Институт социологии и психологии Филозофский факультет Черногории, pp. 333-376, 2016.
Abstract | Tags: central and eastern europe, contemporary, neoliberalism, post-socialism
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year = {2016},
date = {2016-01-01},
booktitle = {»Постсоциализм (Черногория-Россия 1990-2015)« Москва: МГУ имени М.В. Ломоносова Социологический факультет / Институт социологии и психологии Филозофский факультет Черногории},
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abstract = {The “Anthropological thought of a risky society” is a chapter in the monograph “Postsocialism”, which followed the development of entrepreneurship in the post-socialist period of Montenegro and Russia. The study describes the anthropological dysfunctions of the two societies in the postmodern era, as well as the anemia of their institutions to resist all those anomalies that accompany societies in transition. It is primarily about imposed neoliberalization not only in the domain of economics, but also beyond.
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The “Anthropological thought of a risky society” is a chapter in the monograph “Postsocialism”, which followed the development of entrepreneurship in the post-socialist period of Montenegro and Russia. The study describes the anthropological dysfunctions of the two societies in the postmodern era, as well as the anemia of their institutions to resist all those anomalies that accompany societies in transition. It is primarily about imposed neoliberalization not only in the domain of economics, but also beyond.
2010
Ćeranić, Goran
Social exclusiveness and the character of competitiveness of the montenegrin social system Journal Article
In: Sociološka luča, vol. IV, iss. 2, pp. 21-37, 2010.
Abstract | Tags: contemporary, economic and social policy, montenegro, sociology
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date = {2010-01-01},
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volume = {IV},
issue = {2},
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abstract = {Social exclusiveness, as one of the main problems of modern society, entails a lack of social connections and power, disintegration, marginalization, social detachment and unfavorable position in the political, economic and social sense. Social exclusiveness concept can be operationalized by means of three elements: unemployment (marginalization at labor market), poverty and social isolation. Different integral elements of social exclusiveness are mutually interdependent, creating a spiral of insecurity which results in constant and multiply depriving circumstances. In those circumstances, the competitiveness of those individuals is not developed, nor are their abilities utilized, what to a great extent influences the competitiveness of the system itself.},
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Social exclusiveness, as one of the main problems of modern society, entails a lack of social connections and power, disintegration, marginalization, social detachment and unfavorable position in the political, economic and social sense. Social exclusiveness concept can be operationalized by means of three elements: unemployment (marginalization at labor market), poverty and social isolation. Different integral elements of social exclusiveness are mutually interdependent, creating a spiral of insecurity which results in constant and multiply depriving circumstances. In those circumstances, the competitiveness of those individuals is not developed, nor are their abilities utilized, what to a great extent influences the competitiveness of the system itself.
2008
Krivokapić, Nataša
Teorijski pristupi slobodnom vremenu [Theoretical Approaches to Leisure Time] Book
2008.
Abstract | Tags: contemporary, leisure, working time
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author = {Nataša Krivokapić},
year = {2008},
date = {2008-01-01},
abstract = {This monograph deals with the connection between working and free time, more precisely with the influence of the quality of working time on the way of spending free time and the types of activities. It is considered that the needs that a person has in his free time are related to the effects that working time produces.},
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This monograph deals with the connection between working and free time, more precisely with the influence of the quality of working time on the way of spending free time and the types of activities. It is considered that the needs that a person has in his free time are related to the effects that working time produces.