Exploring Limbo: The experience of job-loss and unemployment in a jewellery city in Italy

The article investigates the experience of job-loss and the following unemployment. Based on the ethnographic research conducted in Valenza, Italy, between 2008 and 2012, the article challenges an interpretation of unemployment as a liminal phase. I argue former workers experience unemployment as a...

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Autor principal:	Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	EN FR SR
Publicado:	University of Belgrade 2016
Materias:	unemployment ruins “Limbo” community of practices economic crisis Anthropology GN1-890
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/2cdee4ce26aa429a83a9dc3dd36b5ad4
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:2cdee4ce26aa429a83a9dc3dd36b5ad42021-12-02T05:27:04ZExploring Limbo: The experience of job-loss and unemployment in a jewellery city in Italy10.21301/eap.v11i2.100353-15892334-8801https://doaj.org/article/2cdee4ce26aa429a83a9dc3dd36b5ad42016-07-01T00:00:00Zhttps://eap-iea.org/novi-ojs/index.php/eap/article/view/662https://doaj.org/toc/0353-1589https://doaj.org/toc/2334-8801The article investigates the experience of job-loss and the following unemployment. Based on the ethnographic research conducted in Valenza, Italy, between 2008 and 2012, the article challenges an interpretation of unemployment as a liminal phase. I argue former workers experience unemployment as a “Limbo” – an existential condition underpinned by the ambiguity of being and at the same time not-being a worker. The exploration of this “Limbo” sheds light on the emotional, physical and symbolic labour that laid-off workers undertake facing their new condition. This research offers elements to read the loss of a job as an exit from a community of practices and to investigate the ways in which individual negotiate this departure.Michele Filippo FontefrancescoUniversity of Belgradearticleunemploymentruins“Limbo”community of practiceseconomic crisisAnthropologyGN1-890ENFRSREtnoantropološki Problemi, Vol 11, Iss 2 (2016)
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description	The article investigates the experience of job-loss and the following unemployment. Based on the ethnographic research conducted in Valenza, Italy, between 2008 and 2012, the article challenges an interpretation of unemployment as a liminal phase. I argue former workers experience unemployment as a “Limbo” – an existential condition underpinned by the ambiguity of being and at the same time not-being a worker. The exploration of this “Limbo” sheds light on the emotional, physical and symbolic labour that laid-off workers undertake facing their new condition. This research offers elements to read the loss of a job as an exit from a community of practices and to investigate the ways in which individual negotiate this departure.
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title_short	Exploring Limbo: The experience of job-loss and unemployment in a jewellery city in Italy
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Exploring Limbo: The experience of job-loss and unemployment in a jewellery city in Italy

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