Adam regularly delivers talks and presentations, as well as organising academic workshops in his field. If you are interested in participating in any of these or have any queries about any upcoming talks and presentations, please get in touch here.
Selected Academic Events (click here for a full list of events)
Surviving Urban Precarity: Labour Exploitation, Organising Strategies and Workers Between the State and Community (see flyer for participant details)
CEIL-CONICET, Buenos Aires. 9-11 March 2020.
This workshop brought together academics and policy makers from Argentina, India and Ethiopia to examine the changing dynamics of “urban informality” across these different countries, focusing primarily upon the strategies of precarious workers. The workshop covered key themes of social reproduction, global value chains, labour organising and the local state, comparing and contrasting experiences and theoretical perspectives. The workshop was also attended by Argentine National Deputy Federico Fagioli, who discussed his work with UTEP / CTEP and organised a field visit to Pueblo Unido, the popular neighbourhood he helped construct in Glew in Buenos Aires.
Urban Informality: Linking informal working practices with the governance of everyday life (call for papers available to download here)
Centre for Urban Research on Austerity, Leicester. 27 June 2019.
This workshop will explore relations between longstanding community practices of survival beyond (but without excluding) the formal institutions of the state, the persistence and transformation of informal economies and their impact on work, class formation and collective organisation, and the modes of local governance that continually (re)emerge to manage and respond to these features of urban informality. The aim is to understand possible configurations of hybrid practices in informal modes of work and life and the informal practices and institutions that emerge in interactions between ordinary citizens, local authorities and grassroots forms of entrepreneurship, exploring the various means by which individuals and communities navigate these complex formations of urban informality.
CURA Urban Methodologies Summer School (see details here)
De Montfort University, Leicester. 12-13 June 2019.
The Centre for Urban Research on Austerity Urban Methodologies Summer School is a two-day event aimed at PhD researchers, early-career academics and advanced postgraduate students. It will be held at De Montfort University, Leicester, on 12-13 June 2019. The UMSS will feature four masterclass sessions led by leading academics who are working with novel and innovative methodological approaches to understanding the various facets of urban living. Two Doctoral Student Plenaries will also feature, where selected participants will present their own research methodology to receive feedback from participants and a panel of CURA researchers.
Selected Academic Talks (click here for a full list of talks and presentations)
Trade unions under austerity: labour activism in the post-2015 automobile sector in Argentina (with Lucila D’Urso), IV ISA Forum of Sociology, Porto Alegre, 23-27 February 2021.
More of the same? Union mobilization in Argentina’s automobile sector after the end of the Pink Tide, Labour Struggles and Development, International Workshop, University of Nottingham, 25-26 June 2019.
Flexibilisation, precarity and the re-ordering of Latin America: Work and the workplace in Argentina at the end of the Pink Tide International Studies Association Annual Convention, Toronto. 27-30 March 2019.
Labour organising and the (re)turn to austerity in Latin America Global Politics, Economy and Society Seminar Series, Oxford Brookes University. 12 November 2018.
Labour and development in Argentina Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice Research Seminar Series, University of Nottingham. 5 February 2018.
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