Political Economy

Session: G14(b) - Workshop - Conceptualizing and Measuring Insecurity in Canada: The Politics of Precariousness - Roundtable: Thinking about Precariousness (see/voir L14(b))

Date: Jun 1, 2017 | Time: 01:30pm to 03:00pm | Location: VIC-609 (Victoria Building)| iOS / Outlook

Joint Session / Séance conjointe: with/avec Race, Ethnicity, Indigenous Peoples and Politics / Race, ethnicité, peuples autochtones et politique

Chair/Présidente: Christina Gabriel (Carleton University)

Participants & Authors/Auteurs:

Scholars in Canada have played a key role in developing the concept of precariousness. Precariousness, for instance, has been deployed to convey how different forms of employment are shaped by status, forms of employment and broader social relations producing particular forms of inequality for different groups of people. Relatedly, scholars have drawn attention to how precarious immigration status is implicated in differential forms of access and citizenship rights within the political community leading to varying forms of exclusion. This roundtable draws together participants from a variety of vantage points to first reflect how the concept of precariousness finds expression in their own work. Second to consider whether it can be pushed further and lastly whether the term prompts consideration and/or reconsideration of forms of collective action and strategies of resistance?