香港六合彩中特网

The Chinese city now exists in a time and space where the economy slows, work intensifies, and Xi聽Jinping鈥檚 鈥淐hinese Dream鈥� of social mobility seems to dim. In this context, surviving and thriving in the city聽has become increasingly resource intensive and experiences of precarity have diversified. As Margaret聽Hillenbrand (2023) has recently demonstrated, states of precarity in China鈥檚 urban spaces have been聽largely underexplored by scholars. Yet exploring precarity in Chinese cities can help us scrutinise the聽鈥済lobal city鈥� (Saskia Sassen, 1991) with a local eye: international capitalism under state-managed聽conditions has created particular pressures and responses which call for academic investigation.聽

Funded by the IAS Critical Area Studies Fund, this half-day workshop uses Anna Tsing鈥檚 (2015) The聽Mushroom at the End of the World as a gateway to invite participants from the humanities and social聽sciences to explore these local conditions, particularly in connection to the idea that meaningful lives and聽meaning are pieced together in the 鈥渞uins鈥� of capitalism. The concept of capitalist ruins invokes images of聽what is left behind in the wake of capitalist advancement and reminds us that capitalism has boundaries聽and externality, domains of non-capitalist experience from which capitalism itself scavenges.聽Using Tsing鈥檚 work as an entry point, this workshop invites researchers to think of their work in China鈥檚聽cities in connection to these notions of 鈥渟alvage accumulation,鈥� and to explore the 鈥渓andscapes of聽unintentional design鈥� that rapid development leaves behind, while also drawing attention to the global pull聽of supply chains and markets. Ranging from lived experiences of precarity and informal work, the gig聽economy and social media livelihoods, to urban exploration, to urban design and planning policy, through to聽play and rebellion in the city, this workshop aims to highlight the Chinese city as both a space of precarity聽and a space made out of the creative response to that precarity.聽

We warmly welcome contributors from researchers at all career stages to participate in two panels of 3-4聽papers and discussions. To apply, please submit the following information:

1. Presentation title and 300-word abstract
2. 100-word bio
3. Email to the organisers, Dr Alison Lamont (IOE, 香港六合彩中特网) and Dr Annabella Massey (IOE, 香港六合彩中特网) at聽IAS.precarity2024@gmail.com by 5pm BST on Wednesday 15th May, 2024

Please note this workshop will take place in-person at 香港六合彩中特网, London. Refreshments will be provided during聽the day, and a speaker鈥檚 dinner will be provided after the event at a local restaurant.