Dr. Zulfiya Tursunova, a Chairperson of the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies and an Associate Professor, recently gave a talk on “Feminist Analysis of Women’s Precarious Livelihoods and Disempowerment” at a panel on “Precarity and Labor in “Entrepreneurship.” The panel was part of the forum on “Precarious Labor in Contemporary Central Asia.”
Zulfiya argued that precarity is “politically induced in which certain populations suffer from failing social and economic networks of support and become differentially exposed to injury, violence, and death.” These types of oppression make some lives and bodies “disposable” meanwhile making others more “protected.” Different social value is assigned depending on the labour and position and vulnerability is imposed on the “disposable” and also those who suffer from war and pandemics.
In the era of “neo-liberal precarity,” employers perpetuate “contingent control” expressed in employer’s power, cost savings, while workers undergo low wages, task routinizaition, and job flexibility. The workshop was organized by the faculty from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice in Italy on Sept. 13, 2021.