Das 4. Jahrestreffen des AK Labour Geography fand vom 09.-10. Februar 2023 im Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung statt.
Die Tagung wurde organisiert von Tatiana López, Anne Engelhardt, Isabella Stingl, Barbara Orth, Yannick Ecker und Alica Repenning.
Programm
Donnerstag 09. Februar / Thursday, February 9th
13:30:
Willkommen, Kennenlernen & Icebreaker/ Welcome, Getting to know each other & Icebreaker
14:00:
Gemeinsame Diskussion: Labour Geography im deutschsprachigen Kontext – State of the Art und aktuelle Fragen/ Joint discussion: Labour Geography in the German-speaking regions – State of the Art and Current Issues
14:45:
Kaffeepause/ coffee break
15:00:
Arbeitsgruppen zu Forschungsfeldern/ Working groups on research fields
- Organisierungsprozesse/ Organizing Processes
- Gender & Soziale Reproduktion / Gender & Social Reproduction
- Digitalisierung/ Digitization
- Forschungsmethodik/ Research Methodology
- Staat, Regulierung & Governance/ State, Regulation & Governance
- Wertschöpfungsketten/ Value chains
- Naturverhältnisse/ Nature relations
16:00:
Kaffeepause/ coffee break
16:30:
Zusammenführung der Ergebnisse aus den Arbeitsgruppen & Diskussion im Plenum/ Consolidation of the results from the working groups & plenary discussion
18:00:
Kaffeepause/ coffee break
18:30:
Keynote: Kendra Strauss: Towards a feminist and anti-racist Labour Geography (hybrid)
19:30:
Gemeinsamer Weg zum Abendessen/ Joint transfer to dinner
20:00:
Gemeinsames Abendessen/ Joint dinner
Freitag, 10. Februar/ Friday, 10 February
09:00:
Thematische Sessions mit Vorträgen oder Textdiskussionen I/ Thematic sessions with lectures or reading group discussions I
Session Ia: Labour in agriculture
- Miriam Wenner: Assembling fair labour. Moral values and private sustainability standards at Indian tea plantations and natural stone pits
- Louisa Prause: Rethinking precision agriculture from a labor perspective
Session Ib: Spaces of work and reproduction
- Jenny Kunhardt: “Where do the workers live who build my house?” – Conceptualising housing supply for temporary EU workers in Germany
- Nikos Gatsinos: Collaborative Workspaces and precariousness in rural and peripheral areas
- Samil Sarikaya: „Where is the Street of Arabs?“ New Aspects of Berlin’s Sonnenallee
10:30:
Kaffeepause/ coffee break
11:30:
Thematische Sessions mit Vorträgen oder Textdiskussionen II/ Thematic sessions with lectures or reading group discussions II
Session IIa: Structural change and labour dynamics
- Márton Czirfusz: Labour geography of the battery value chain in Hungary: towards a new phase of dependent development?
- Nora Küttel: Loss in transformation: Labor, loss, and place in East German shipyards
- Elisabeth Bartl, Udo Brixy, Jürgen Schmude: Development and dynamics of the tourism labour market since 2019
Session IIb: Labour in the digital platform economy
- Sina Hardaker und Paulina Doll: Canvassers for digital online platforms? The division of labour in case of eBay and municipal actors
- Veronique Helwing: Trucking (Un)limited – the Impact of Digital Platforms on Labour in the Logistics Sector
- Antonie Schmitz, Sylvana Jahre, Barbara Orth: Infrastrukturelle Perspektiven auf Plattform-Urbanismus – Die Rolle von Körpern und Migrationsregimes
13:00:
Mittagessen/ Lunch
14:00:
Unsere eigenen Arbeitsgeographien – Akademisches Arbeiten zwischen Prekarität und Widerstand/ Our Own Labour Geographies – Academic Work between Precarity and Resistance (hybrid)
Workshop facilitated by Stephan Liebscher: Organising in Academia. An international exchange between NGAWiss (Germany) and the UCU (UK).
15:30:
Kaffeepause/ coffee break
16:00:
Organisatorisches, Ankündigungen & Wahlen/ Organizational matters, announcements & elections
17:00:
Ende / End
