Precarious Places

Dr. Tadeusz Rachwał is Professor at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw, Poland.Dr. Rolf Hepp is professor for Sociology at the FU Berlin, Germany.Dr. David Kergel is Lector at the University Siegen, Germany.

• Introduction.- A Banality of Evil: Precarity as the Offspring of Individualism.- Artists’ Precarity in the Context of their Social Integration.- Socioanalysis beyond borders: fieldwork in a social world in crisis.- Training for Work at the Margins of the Projective City.- Placelessness and Precarity. Mobility of Labor in Quasi-Utopian Spaces.- The Social and Political Implications of the Precariat. A Backlash or a Transformation of the Post Fordism formation?- Warsaw: Precarious Spaces, Precarious Memories.- On the Uses of Precarity. Knowledge, Innovation and Academic Labor in Precarious Times.- Start Ups, Social Networking and Self-Tracking – The Neoliberal Freedom of the Entrepreneurial Self in the Digital Age.- Revisiting Territories of Relegation: Class, Ethnicity and State in the Making of Advanced Marginality.