Sian Lazar
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New book available
My book, How We Struggle: A Political Anthropology of Labour, is published by Pluto Press. Here you can find the publisher’s web page. When it comes to labour movements, unionised industrial workers on the factory floor have only ever been part of the picture. Across so many different workplaces, sectors of the economy and geographical…
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Article out: Anthropology and the politics of alterity
Anthropology and the politics of alterity: A Latin American dialectic and its relevance for ontological anthropologies published online in Anthropological Theory This is out now, and available open access here. This is the abstract: Recent anglophone ontological anthropologies have an important Latin American intellectual and political history that is rarely fully acknowledged. This article outlines…
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Article out: Vocation and political activism
Vocation and political activism: sacrifice, stigma, love, utopia? published now in Social Anthropology/ Anthropologie Sociale This article is now out, and available here (open access). It’s part of a special section on utopian confluences and generative politics, edited by Ruy Llera Blanes and Bjørn Enge Bertelsen – ToC here. Thanks to Ruy and Bjørn for…
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Platform Labour conference
The April 2021 Politics and Ethics of Platform Labour was great. See http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/29233 for the programme. Conference call for papers: Digital platforms are increasingly important forms of organising work today, from the physical labour of driving, delivery, cleaning and other tasks to freelance digital labour. Sites connect clients to workers, organise payment, and take commission,…
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Blog post: Social movement research, class and protest
Here’s a blog post I wrote about Ronald Munck’s new book, Social Movements in Latin America: Mapping the Mosaic, for the Progress in Political Economy blog run by Adam Morton at the University of Sydney.
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Platform labour conference
With support from CRASSH and the Max-Cam centre for Ethics, Economy and Social Change, in April 2021, I will run a conference on Politics and Ethics of Platform Labour: Learning from Lived Experiences. I’ll post the call for papers soon. Digital platforms are increasingly important forms of organising work today, from the physical labour of…
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CRASSH Research network on Subaltern and Decolonial Citizenships
Together with Professor Sarah Radcliffe, I am co-convening a seminar series at CRASSH, on Subaltern and Decolonial Citizenships. So far, we’ve had talks by Engin Isin, Andrew Canessa and Sofia Ugarte. See the network site for more information. Citizenship is currently an arena for vibrant and contentious debate across disciplines and domains. Theoretically, much work…
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cómo se construye un sindicalista
In August 2019, my book was published in Spanish translation, by siglo ventiuno editores. cómo se construye un sindicalistavida cotidiana, militancia y afectos en el mundo sindical Aquí se encuentran notas, una reseña e entrevistas sobre el libro (en español) Una reseña publicada en la Revista de Antropologia Social de la Un. Complutense de Madrid…
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Precarity and Labour Politics Special Issue of Dialectical Anthropology
The articles from the conference on labour politics in an age of precarity are now published as a Special Issue of Dialectical Anthropology, which I co-edited with Andrew Sanchez. The introduction is open access, as well as some of the articles, but they are all great. Here are the article details: Understanding labour politics in…
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Worldwide Mobilizations
I have a chapter in the book ‘Worldwide Mobilizations: Class Struggles and Urban Commoning’, recently published by Berghahn Press. My piece is called ‘Spontaneity, antagonism and the moral politics of outrage. Urban protest in Argentina since 2001.’ I write about different kinds of street protest in Buenos Aires – organised actions by trade unions, and supposedly…
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