Working precarity
Urban youth tactics to make livelihoods in instable conditions in Abidjan, Athens, Berlin and Jakarta
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3237658 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hannah Schilling (0000-0003-2714-8884, Department of Social Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, corresponding author), Talja Blokland (0000-0002-9997-1207, Department of Social Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany), Abdoumaliq Simone (0000-0002-1630-1997, ICOSS, University of Sheffield, UK) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1333-1349 |
| Publication date | 2019-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0038026119858209 |
| OpenAlex | W2949469754 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 81 |
Globally, conventional understandings of work no longer have much purchase for the efforts of most people to sustain minimally viable existences. This article critically expands on Bourdieu's theory of practice by looking at the making of livelihoods of urban youth in as diverse places as Abidjan, Athens, Berlin and Jakarta, affected by transformations of work coined with the term 'precarity'. This article discusses instability as one aspect of the set of experiences of 'precarity'. Instability challenges how individuation and sociation work upon each other; what Bourdieu has described with the concept of habitus. Drawing on empirical material from the four cities, we explore practices of accruing value in a context of instability and conceptualize them as 'detaching' and 'gathering'. We suggest that a rethinking of practices in relation to dispositions and habitus may enable us to better grasp the improvisations and more fluid forms of social life that characterize the contemporary urban life of many, and can help to address social inequalities today in a refined way
Context (archaeology) · Cultural capital · Geography · Habitus · Individuation · Livelihood · Precarity · Social science · Sociology · Employment and Welfare Studies · Gender Studies · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics
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Precarious work and local governance through the lens of informality and caring for place
Positioning precarity
Youth repertoires and cosmopolitan horizons in deeply divided contexts
Everyday Roma Stigmatization
No time to relax
Complicity, performance, and the 'doing' of sports coaching
Young People in Newfoundland and Labrador
Children as a new climate precariat
Introduction
Intimacy
Contemporary Sociological Theory
The Precariat
Precarity North and South
New Urban Worlds
Cultural capital
The Crisis and the Welfare State in Greece
Class, Individualization and Late Modernity
Class and Stratification
Kreativität und Gewohnheit. Ein Vergleich zwischen Praxistheorie und Pragmatismus
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Youth, the ‘underclass’ and social exclusion
Conversations with Bourdieu
Handbook of Youth and Young Adulthood
Consumption and Identity at Work
Globalization, Uncertainty and Youth in Society
Practical Reason
Formations of Class and Gender
City Life from Jakarta to Dakar
Employment and the Family
The Logic of Practice
Inequalities in social capital and their longitudinal effects on the labour market entry
Theoretical Notes On `Gray Cities
Inequality and 21-year-olds' negotiation of uncertain transitions to employment
Young people and structural inequality
Les métamorphoses de la question sociale
Global Sociology
Die Globalität unsicherer Arbeit als konzeptionelle Provokation
Arbeitsmarktpolitischer Wandel in Deutschland seit 1991 und das Working Poor-Problem
Thinking cities through elsewhere
Community as urban practice
Rethinking class and culture in Africa
Workers of the World
Growing up in a Classless Society
Housing the Margin
For the City Yet to Come
The Precariat
Connected Sociologies
The disorganized family
Imagining Personhood Differently
Racial Capitalism and the Crisis of Black Masculinity
Invisible Inequality
Towards Minor Theory
Cities in a World of Cities
The Comparative City
Le travail
Inégalités sociales et régulation politique en Côte d'Ivoire
Understanding the Precariat through Labour and Work
Fake it till you make it
Habitus Clivé and the Emotional Imprint of Social Mobility
Habitus
A Concise Genealogy and Anatomy of Habitus
Ghettos and Anti-Ghettos
Unity and Fragmentation of the Habitus
The Chameleon Habitus
La précarité, une catégorie française à l'épreuve de la comparaison internationale
Marginal Gains, Market Values, and History
People as Infrastructure
Manufacturing the Global
Beyond social ties
Toward a Theory of Social Practices
Precarity as a Political Concept, or, Fordism as Exception
Introduction
The Promise of Sociology
A New Model of Social Class? Findings from the BBC's Great British Class Survey Experiment
Hybridizing Habitus and Reflexivity
Afterword
Why the Sociology of Morality Needs Bourdieu's Habitus
Normality and Trust in Goffman's Theory of Interaction Order
Cultural Capital and Social Inequality in the Life Course
The Complexity of Intersectionality
Cultural Capital and Educational Attainment
Does genderfit? Bourdieu, feminism, and conceptions of social order
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |