Panel 130a-130b: Contexts and experiences of precariousness: discourses, practices and emotions

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Antónia Pedroso de Lima (ISCTE-IUL CRIA), Maria Claudia Coelho (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)

 

Discussant: 
Heike Drotbohm (University of Mainz)

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Paper short abstract:
This paper analyzes strategies employed in dealing with precariousness in contexts of crisis. Its focus is on the articulation between emotions and moralities in the process of choosing ways to face deprivation experiences.

 

 

Paper long abstract:
This paper analyzes strategies employed in dealing with precariousness in contexts of crisis. Its focus is on the articulation between emotions and moralities in the process of choosing ways to face deprivation experiences. Research takes on a comparative approach, addressing strategies adopted in dealing with contexts of macroeconomic crisis - the Portuguese case during austerity policies - and in dealing with contexts of institutional crisis - the Brazilian case of public servants at Rio de Janeiro in 2016-2017. Its theoretical outline combines insights from the anthropology of emotions, gift-giving analysis and economic anthropology. The methodology employed is the in-depth interview, approaching issues such as: a) understanding of possible causes of the situation of precariousness, emphasizing interviewee perception about his/hers own responsibility for it; b) strategies deployed to face deprivation (indebtedness, costs reduction, search for new sources of income); and c) emotional grammars which guide/are elicited by these strategies, such as indignation, shame, hope, anguish, anger, etc.

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Accepted papers:

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Emotions, Moralities and Deprivation in Contexts of Crisis: a comparative approach Brazil-Portugal 
Antónia Pedroso de Lima (ISCTE-IUL CRIA), Maria Claudia Coelho (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)

 

Learning to Live with Uncertainty: Young Adults in Barcelona between Subjection and Resistance to Precarity 
Corinne Schwaller (University of Bern)

 

Precariousness beyond Austerity: Caring, Abandonment and Familialism in Brazil 
Erik Bähre (Universiteit Leiden)

 

Crisis, emotional disorders and conceptions of injustice: The case of construction workers. 
Xavier Garcia Curado (Universitat de Barcelona)

 

Hard times for David's family: exploring how mixed feelings of hope and scarcity enable collective agency 
Fernanda Oliveira (CRIA-IUL)

 

Palestinians in Lebanon: experiencing and navigating precariousness and uncertainty 
Hala Caroline Abou Zaki (Center for Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP) - Oxfrod Brookes university)

 

Squatting as a form of "stable precariousness": the case of Rome 
Chiara Cacciotti (Polytechnic and University of Turin)

 

Hope and survival on the margins of Europe: Kurdish and left-wing experiences of precariousness from Turkey to exile in Greece 
Beja Protner (University of Cambridge)

 

(Dis)continuities of Precarity: Gendered Experiences of Kafana Musicians in Serbia from Socialism to the Present 

Marijana Mitrovic (Forum Transregionale Studien)

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