[csaa-forum] CCR SEMINAR SERIES 08: Panel on 'Precarious Employment' by Neilson, Mezzadra & Andrijasevic - 13 November

[Reena Dobson]

Apologies for cross-postings 

 Centre for Cultural Research

University of Western Sydney

 

invites all to attend

the CCR Seminar Series 2008

featuring

 

 A Panel Presentation by:

 

Associate Professor Brett Neilson (CCR)

Associate Professor Sandro Mezzadra (University of Bologna, Italy, UWS ERVS)

Dr Rutvica Andrijasevic (Open University, England)

 

Date: Thursday, 13 November

Time: 2.00pm - 4.30pm

Venue: The Gallery, Female Orphan School, Parramatta Campus

Afternoon tea and cakes provided 

RSVP: Jacqui Kingi j.kingi at uws.edu.au or 9685 9600

Apologies: Kay Anderson k.anderson at uws.edu.au   

 

 

 

Precarious Employment, Differential Inclusion and the Proliferation of Borders

Brett Neilson, Sandro Mezzadra and Rutvica Andrijasevic

Far from the image of a borderless world, current globalization is characterized by a proliferation of borders. Questioning the notion of an international division of labour, these three papers argue that this proliferation of borders not only explodes established nation-state geographies but also forces seemingly discrete territories and actors into unexpected connections that facilitate new processes of production and exploitation. To track and analyze these processes and links, we introduce the concept of the multiplication of labour. This describes not only the intensification of the labour process and the tendency for work to colonize the time of life but also the growing complexity that characterizes the constitution of labour markets and relations of hierarchization within and between them. Examining the ways in which borders selectively filter and differentiate labour mobilities allows a new approach to questions of social inclusion and political subjectivity. The papers will investigate these issues in a variety of research settings including migrant sex work in Italy and international student labour in Australia.

 

 

Rutvica Andrijasevic is Lecturer in Politics at the Open University. She is currently working on a monograph entitled Sex Moves: Migration, Agency and Citizenship in Sex Trafficking (Palgrave, 2009). Expert in areas of gender, migration and sexuality, Rutvica has widely published on topics of sex trafficking and citizenship in various European languages and journals such as Feminist Review, British Journal of Sociology, Soundings, Environment and Planning D, DeriveApprodi, Studi Culturali, Multitudes, REMI, Treca, and Prokla. She is one of the founding members of the NextGENDERation network, a transnational European feminist network.

 

Sandro Mezzadra is an Associate Professor in History of Political Thought at the Department of Politics, Institutions, History of the University of Bologna. He is currently research fellow at the Centre for Cultural Research of the University of Western Sydney, Australia (2006-2008). His research work has focused in the last decade on contemporary migration, transformations of citizenship and postcolonial criticism. Among his publications are Diritto di fuga: Migrazioni, cittadinanza, globalizzazione Ombre corte, 2006), La condizione postcoloniale: Storia e politica nel presente globale (Ombre corte, 2008) and 'Borders, Citizenship, War, Class. A Dialogue', New Formations, 58 (2006) (with Etienne Balibar)

 

Brett Neilson is Associate Professor of Cultural and Social Analysis at the University of Western Sydney, where he is also Higher Degree Research Coordinator in the Centre for Cultural Research. Among his publications are Free Trade in the Bermuda Triangle ... and Other Tales of Counterglobalization (University of Minnesota Press, 2004); 'From Precarity to Precariousness and Back Again: Labour, Life and Unstable Networks', Fibreculture Journal 5 (2005) (with Ned Rossiter); and 'Né qui, né altrove: migration, detention, desertion', borderlands 2.1 (2003) (with Sandro Mezzadra).

 

 

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