Labour Geography, Racial Capitalism, and the Pandemic Portal

Rogaly, Ben; Schling, Hannah

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-70179-6_50

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“…This is particularly salient at this moment, as political projects worldwide have only intensified their interest in so-called essential and infrastructural work in response to the Covid-19 global pandemic, and intensifying climate, economic, and care crises. Having witnessed previously invisibilised forms of so-called ‘essential’ or ‘key’ work become briefly visiblised and, at times, revered during the Covid-19 global pandemic, scholarly interventions have already taken note of the shifts in public and political discourse, and surrounding labour relations (Brickell et al, 2022; De Souza Santos, 2022; Lin, 2022; Rogaly and Schling 2020; Rose-Redwood et al, 2020). These discussions highlight the need for more critical discussion of what work (infrastructural or otherwise) is considered essential for collective life, and what expectations and conditions surround its performance and governance.…”

Section: Working Towards An Infrastructural Labour Research Agendamentioning

confidence: 99%

Doing the work: Locating labour in infrastructural geography

Stokes

Coss‐Corzo

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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As the social sciences undergo an infrastructural turn, geographers have taken steps to broaden, disrupt, and reconceptualise understandings of infrastructure and its relationship to social, political, economic, and ecological processes. We contribute to this discussion by highlighting the emergence of a comparatively understudied yet crucial aspect within infrastructural geographies – infrastructural labour. We identify key theoretical anchors that guide contemporary analyses of infrastructural labour, which we query by focusing on five key areas of scholarly discussion. Building on these, we offer a working definition of infrastructural labour to help guide further engagement and point to questions meriting additional investigation.

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Section: Working Towards An Infrastructural Labour Research Agendamentioning

confidence: 99%

Doing the work: Locating labour in infrastructural geography

Stokes

Coss‐Corzo

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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“…In light of this, following the lead of Disabled or First Nations or climate artist-activist/scholars (Kuppers 2020), not to mention the many creative arts programmes now integrated with cancer care (Ennis, Kirshbaum, and Waheed 2018), we might suggest that many people are finding Un-settling to be a process that is joyous, fierce, energizing, or revelatory (Rogaly and Schling 2021;Roy 2020). Though liminality is the mode of life in which we must live and though dread, anguish, and anxiety accompanies this knowledge-it is also creative, hopeful, productive, and powerful.…”

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Response—Liminality and the Mirage of Settlement

Hooker

Kerridge

2022

Bioethical Inquiry

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Little and colleagues’ (1998) paper describing a key aspect of cancer patients’ experience, that of “liminality,” is remarkable for giving articulation to a very common and yet mostly overlooked aspect of patient experience. Little et. al. offered a formulation of liminality that deliberately set aside the concept’s more common use in analysing social rituals, in order to grasp at the interior experience that arises when failing bodily function and awareness of mortality are forced into someone’s consciousness, as occurs with a diagnosis of cancer. We set out the reasons as to why this analysis was so significant in 1998—but we also consider how the “liminality” described by Little and colleagues was (as they suggested) a feature of modernity, founded on what we term “the mirage of settlement.” We argue that this mirage is impossible to sustain in 2022 amid the many forms of un-settling that have characterized late modernity, including climate change and COVID-19. We argue that many people in developed nations now experience liminality as a result of the being forced into the consciousness of living in a continued state of coloniality. We thus rejoin the social aspects of liminality to the interior, Existential form described by Little et. al.

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Labour Geography, Racial Capitalism, and the Pandemic Portal

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Doing the work: Locating labour in infrastructural geography

Doing the work: Locating labour in infrastructural geography

Response—Liminality and the Mirage of Settlement

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