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<div>we are pleased to send you the call for abstracts of the
session<font color="#000000"><i>�</i></font><font color="#000000"><i><b>It</b></i></font><i><b>�s
a free work� When work relations become passionate.</b></i></div>
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<div>Your contribution to the proposed session will be greatly
appreciated!</div>
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<div>We take this occasion to remind you that the keynote speakers
for the�V Etnography and Qualitative Research Conference�are�<b>Michael
Burawoy</b>, University of California Berkeley, and�<b>Marc
Ab�l�s</b>,� LAIOS � Laboratoire d�Anthropologie des
Institutions et des Organisations Sociales.�</div>
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<div><font color="#000000">On the conference website and below you
can find�</font><font color="#000000">the text of the c</font><font
color="#000000">all for�</font><font color="#000000">abstracts.
Proposals should be sent by</font><font color="#000000"><b>�<u>Februay
17, 2014</u>�</b></font><font color="#000000">to:</font></div>
<div><a href="mailto:annalisa.murgia@unitn.it" target="_blank"><span
class="">annalisa</span>.murgia@unitn.it</a></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><a href="mailto:maurizio@ahref.eu"
target="_blank">maurizio@ahref.eu</a></font></div>
<div>Please, also CC the conference address:�<a
href="mailto:workshop.etnografia@unibg.it" target="_blank">workshop.etnografia@unibg.it</a></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">Each proposal, of a maximum length of�</font><font
color="#000000">1000</font><font color="#000000">�words,
should contain:</font></div>
<div>� the title of your talk;</div>
<div>� your contact details (full name, email address, post
address and affiliation) and those of your co-author/s, if any.</div>
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<div><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US">Contributions will
be accepted both�</span></font>in<font color="#000000"><span
lang="en-US">�<b>Italian</b>�</span></font>and�<b>English</b>.</div>
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<div><font color="#000000">Acceptance of proposals will be
notified by March 17, 2014.�</font><font color="#1a1a1a">Contributors
must register by April 21, 2014 to be included in the program.</font></div>
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<div>With best wishes,</div>
<div><font color="#000000"><span class="">Annalisa</span>�Murgia�</font><font
color="#000000">& Maurizio Teli</font></div>
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<div>Call for abstracts</div>
<div>V Ethnography and Qualitative Research Conference.</div>
<div>Bergamo, Italy</div>
<div>5-7 June 2014</div>
<div>website:�<font color="#000000"><a
href="http://www.etnografiaricercaqualitativa.it/?p=13">http://www.etnografiaricercaqualitativa.it/?p=13</a></font></div>
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<div><b>It�s a free work� When working relations become passionate</b></div>
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<div>Convenors:<i>�Annalisa Murgia</i>�(Department of Sociology
and Social Research of the University of Trento) &�<i>Maurizio
Teli</i>�(Fondazione <ahref, Trento)</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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?</div>
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