From Precarity to Planetarity: Cecilia Vicuña's &lt;em&gt;Kon Kon&lt;/em&gt;

Amich, Candice

doi:10.2979/globalsouth.7.2.134

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“…For migrants, state exclusions and regulations, many socio‐legal in nature, direct the conduct of everyday life (Bhabha, 2002; De Genova, 2004). Elsewhere, everyday life and “daily performance” have been described as a means of “locating within precarity the seeds of alternative futures” (Amich, 2014, p. 140).…”

Section: Precariousness and Linked Livesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Migration, precariousness, and the linked lives of newcomers in Hong Kong

Bailey

Hankins

et al. 2020

Population Space and Place

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We develop the concept of linked lives to deepen understanding of the relationship between migration and precarity. Linked lives and precariousness are mutually constitutive as they embed subjects in the social, spatial, and temporal relations of everyday life while referencing transitions, trajectories, and biographies that unfold through the life course. Studying linked lives draws attention to how cumulative social and cultural processes, including familyhood and belonging, contribute to the persistence of precarity. On the basis of 64 qualitative interviews with selected newcomer migrants in Hong Kong, we describe how precariousness was not just restricted to exploitative employment or limited rights but enveloped multiple domains of everyday life, including housing and social fields. Respondents associated precariousness with feelings of generalised pressure and disrupted spacetimes and connected it with their expectations for familyhood, employment, social life, and belonging. We argue that the mutual constitution of precariousness and linked lives has important implications for social policy and close with a call for the creation of resourceful spacetimes that support linked lives and, more widely, a more participatory process of formulating social policy for migrants.

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Section: Precariousness and Linked Livesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Migration, precariousness, and the linked lives of newcomers in Hong Kong

Bailey

Hankins

et al. 2020

Population Space and Place

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“…Over the course of almost five decades, Vicuña developed important and novel strategies of representation that address local and global precarity by drawing our attention to what Candice Amich describes as a refiguring of the "fragility of life and culture under conditions of neoliberal globalization." [33] In Kon Kón, a nearby oil refinery is a recurrent visual trope that symbolizes many layers of buried histories. In juxtapositions between the extractive industry and more pristine views of egrets and the surrounding landscape, Vicuña visualizes how purity and contamination, nature and artifice, untouched and industrial worlds co-exist in proximate, if unstable, orbits.…”

Section: Issue Thirteen : Spring 2019mentioning

confidence: 99%