Naslov
Precarity in a Time of Historical Present

Autori
Božić Vrbančić, Senka

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
IUAES Congress 2020: Coming of Age on Earth: Legacies and Next Generation Anthropology / - , 2021, 7-7

Skup
IUAES Congress 2020: Coming of Age on Earth: Legacies and Next Generation Anthropology

Mjesto i datum
Online event, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, 9-14.03.2021

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Plenarno

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
precarity, uber drivers

Sažetak
We live in times saturated with the sense of precarity and chronic insecurity. The notion of crisis (pandemic, economic, political, environmental, migrant …) is overwhelming. In this talk I go through some affective registers of precarity in Croatia to open up questions on the historical present and what precarity does and can do. I draw on three ethnographic fragments: (1) uber drivers, gig economy and the notion of freedom (2) feeding rats and building shelters for feral cats by using “illegal” migrants’ unwonted clothes on the edge of Zagreb (3) feeling earthquakes in times of COVID-19. Even though these three fragments portray different reactions to various forms of precarity, together they tell an ambivalent story of the historical present and vulnerable connections, one that allows us to ask: is there any potential of producing more capacious lenses for generating new futures through these vulnerable connections?

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

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