Laboratory of the Precarious
Prototyping Entrepreneurial Living in Shenzhen
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5114947 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Silvia Lindtner (0000-0002-8780-6087, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 287-305 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women's studies quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0732-1562 • E-ISSN: 1934-1520 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/wsq.2017.0083 |
| OpenAlex | W2766768506 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 13 |
Making has been envisioned as an enabler of an entrepreneurial self that prototypes hopeful interventions into precarious work and life conditions. This article unpacks how Shenzhen, a city in the south of China, was transformed from a site of low-quality production into the ideal laboratory for this subjectivity of entrepreneurial living. It shows how prominent and mostly male actors began experimenting with professional identity and expertise in design and engineering by articulating their engagement with Shenzhen through feminist and postcolonial critiques. Because these critiques only figured implicitly and were unacknowledged, the potential to build more democratic worlds was undermined
Aesthetics · China · Democracy · Enabling · Epistemology · Political science · Sociology · Subjectivity · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Engineering · Gender Studies · Psychology · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
Creative Commons, Open Access, Free/Libre Open‐Source Software
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Social and cultural geographies of economic innovation
Historicizing Precarious Work
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A critique of innovation districts
Hoping amidst precarity
The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader
Automating amateurs in the 3D printing community
Learning from Shenzhen
Globalizing South China
Theories of the Information Society
Digital Labour and Karl Marx
Patches don’t have gender’
City as Truth-Spot
Post‐feminism and popular culture
Hacking with Chinese Characteristics
Urban Laboratories
Shenzhen
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |