Vigilant Aspirations: Practicing Social Mobility in Spaces of Uncertainty
Workshop of Project B06
14.11.2024
This workshop explores how people aspire to and practice upward social mobility in uncertain contexts. Highlighting spaces in which complexities of belonging, economic opportunity and regimes of oppression are pronounced, we suggest that individual watchfulness is a crucial condition for ‘moving up’. Whether situated in dynamic yet policed borderlands or in ‘remote’ and deprived backwaters, aspiring actors make constant choices about how to present themselves, whom to seek intimacy with, and how to navigate the conditions of their socio-economic settings. This vigilant self-formation occurs between desired upward mobility and the operations of macro-structural processes (state policies, projects of extraction, political change etc.) and demonstrates how watchfulness is a key social practice in highly ambivalent social situations.
Date
Thursday, 14 November 2024
Location
Multifunktionsraum des Philologicums
Ludwigstraße 25
80539 München
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