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Living on Projects: International Intervention and Reconfigurations of Labour in Bosnia and Herzegovina
This presentation discusses experiences of work in a specific sector in contemporary Bosnia and Herzegovina: short-term project-based employment under the umbrella of a postwar humanitarian, peacebuilding, democratising international intervention. Positioned primarily against permanent jobs in public institutions, still widely regarded as a norm and aspiration, such employment is marked by specific forms of precarity, living from project to project, along, possibly, certain advantages. Framed within theoretical discussions about global transformations and reconfigurations of work, and based on qualitative research amongst local people engaged on consecutive short-term contracts in internationally funded projects over the last 10-20 years, the presentation traces specific strategies they deploy to ‘accumulate continuity’. Which old/new temporalities does this kind of work produce? How does it affect their lives and social reproduction?
Nejra Nuna Čengić is a Visiting Fellow at the Sociology Department, Goldsmiths College, University of London (UK). She gained a PhD in the Anthropology of Everyday Life from AMEU-ISH Ljubljana/Maribor, Slovenia, focused on the relationship between war violence and speech. Nejra has over 20 years of working experience in NGOs, IGOs and the academy in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). From 2007/2008 onwards she has taught the postgraduate course Life Stories and Dialogues at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Studies at the University of Sarajevo, where she also gained most of her professional experience. She made a significant contribution to the establishment of the Gender Studies Programme at the University of Sarajevo. Her main research interests focus on memory, speech, violence, gender and work. She is currently conducting a research project on the influence of international intervention on the reconfiguration of labour in BiH.
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| 21 Mar 2019 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
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