Intimate Uncertainties

For this special issue we are bringing together six ethnographic cases of intimate uncertainties that are situated within different regimes of reproduction, healthcare and borders in and beyond Europe. These ethnographic inquiries exemplify unprecedented settings of moral ir/responsibility shaping the intimate on different scales and in various sites of power (agencies, clinics, borderlands). These uncertainties in times of major transitions from old to new moral orders, from industrial to postindustrial, from welfare to austerity spark off a renewed debate on moral economy. The authors of these contributions all focus the theoretical lens of moral economy squarely onto the intimate.

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Solidarities In and Through Work in an Age of Extremes

Work Employment and Society ◽

10.1177/0950017019881566 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 34 (1) ◽

pp. 3-17

Author(s):

Vanessa Beck ◽

Paul Brook

Keyword(s):

Special Needs ◽

Moral Economy ◽

Public Sociology ◽

Special Issue ◽

Emotional Labour ◽

Gig Economy ◽

Social Factory ◽

American Police ◽

Dock Workers ◽

International Social

This article introduces a special issue of Work, Employment and Society on solidarities in and through the experience of work in an age of austerity and political polarisation. It commences by discussing the renaissance of studies of solidarity in the workplace – and beyond. Debates on solidarity as a concept are reviewed in relation to moral economy, labour organising-mobilisation, emotional labour and public sociology. Each of the special issue articles assess the value of the solidarity concept under contemporary conditions. Between them they explore solidarity among gig economy delivery riders (Italy and UK), special needs teachers (England), volunteer lifeboat crews (UK and Ireland) and international ‘social factory’ activists. Two articles examine solidarity within organised labour: first, internationalism among dock workers and second, North American police unions’ construction of a divisive ‘blue solidarity’. The article concludes by calling for continued study of different forms of solidarity in and through work, especially among migrants and individualised workers.

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Clearing Up the Table: Food Pedagogies and Environmental Education — Contributions, Challenges and Future Agendas

Australian Journal of Environmental Education ◽

10.1017/aee.2015.27 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 31 (1) ◽

pp. 146-164 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Elaine Swan ◽

Rick Flowers

Keyword(s):

Critical Race Theory ◽

Environmental Education ◽

Final Section ◽

Food Studies ◽

Moral Economy ◽

Future Research ◽

Special Issue ◽

Race And Gender ◽

Race And Class ◽

And Gender

AbstractIn our paper, we draw on recent scholarship on food pedagogies and pedagogy studies to explore themes in the collection of articles in this special issue. In particular, we show how the articles variously conceptualise formal and informal pedagogies, their curricula, aims, and potential effects in relation to food and sustainability. Drawing on debates in pedagogy studies, we investigate how the papers reflect on what makes a pedagogy pedagogical. We then turn to food studies literature to identify how the articles in this special issue construct food as a theoretical and empirical object. Given food's multifaceted nature, which means that food works materially, biologically, economically, symbolically and socially, we explore which versions of food and its attributes are profiled across and within the articles. Inspired by critiques on race and class in relation to food and food social movements, in the final section of the paper we ask how the articles and future research on food and environmental education can take account of the racialised, gendered and classed dimensions of education for food sustainability. As part of our discussion, we evaluate the ethics of doing good, the moral economy educators reproduce in relation to class, race and gender, and the contribution feminism and critical race theory can make to future research agendas and writing in the field.

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