[JoPP-Public] 5th ERQ Conference - Call for abstracts: It’s a free work… When work relations become passionate

[maurizio teli]

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Dear colleague,

we are pleased to send you the call for abstracts of the 
session///*It*//*’s a free work… When work relations become passionate.*/

Your contribution to the proposed session will be greatly appreciated!

We take this occasion to remind you that the keynote speakers for the V 
Etnography and Qualitative Research Conference are *Michael Burawoy*, 
University of California Berkeley, and *Marc Abélès*,  LAIOS – 
Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Institutions et des Organisations Sociales.

On the conference website and below you can find the text of the call 
for abstracts. Proposals should be sent by*_Februay 17, 2014_ *to:
annalisa.murgia at unitn.it <mailto:annalisa.murgia at unitn.it>
maurizio at ahref.eu <mailto:maurizio at ahref.eu>
Please, also CC the conference address: workshop.etnografia at unibg.it 
<mailto:workshop.etnografia at unibg.it>

Each proposal, of a maximum length of 1000 words, should contain:
• the title of your talk;
• your contact details (full name, email address, post address and 
affiliation) and those of your co-author/s, if any.

Contributions will be accepted both in*Italian* and *English*.

Acceptance of proposals will be notified by March 17, 2014. Contributors 
must register by April 21, 2014 to be included in the program.

With best wishes,
Annalisa Murgia & Maurizio Teli

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Call for abstracts
V Ethnography and Qualitative Research Conference.
Bergamo, Italy
5-7 June 2014
website: http://www.etnografiaricercaqualitativa.it/?p=13
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*It’s a free work… When working relations become passionate*

Convenors:/ Annalisa Murgia/ (Department of Sociology and Social 
Research of the University of Trento) & /Maurizio Teli/ (Fondazione 
<ahref, Trento)

In contemporary knowledge society, both creativity and the ability to 
put into play personal resources are recognized as precious and valuable 
competences. With this workshop, we want to stimulate a reflection 
within the debate on free work (Beverungen et al. 2013; Chicchi et al. 
2013), starting with the ambivalent meaning of the word free, referring 
both to the absence of a price and to the domain of freedom. We invite 
to elaborate on the double face of contemporary work: on one side, it is 
characterized by low or absent wages, it is so intrusive to become 
totalizing; on the other side, it is often based on informal registers, 
on subjects’ desire for freedom, and on the confusion between free time 
and working time. Drawing upon the contribution on free software 
development by the anthropologist Christopher Kelty (2008), we can frame 
this social phenomenon as the expansion of voluntary activities that 
intertwine with work activities in many forms.

What is common among software developers – and among others who describe 
their work primarily as a passion – is not only the individual 
expression of creativity, but also the translation of the 
playful-affective dimension in recursive processes of relation, 
processes that bring to a preoccupation for the institutional, 
technological, political and economical conditions which the particular 
community and its productive activities are based on. These are, 
therefore, working experiences (paid or unpaid) in which the subjects’ 
identification and self-expression are conveyed both by putting life 
itself at work (Morini e Fumagalli 2010; Fleming 2012) and by 
questioning the social relations within which work is realised (Borghi 
et al. 2011). The proposed subject of analysis is as wide as 
heterogeneous, and it includes knowledge work, the creative industries 
and high tech production chains, emotional and caring work, all sharing 
the ambivalences of free work. What are the characteristics of the 
activities wherein subjects invest their affections and desires and that 
become incorporated by the rhetoric of work as a mission? If, on one 
side, free work makes economically valuable free expert activities, can 
it allow the emergence of new forms of collective action? How can we 
understand the main traits of such phenomenon, in particular from a 
methodological perspective?
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