Simon Yuill: Stackwalker: Interviews 2008–2010 (2012)

Documentation from Simon Yuill’s Stackwalker project, a parallel study made from audio interviews relating to crofting communities in the West of Scotland and migrant workers in fishing and food production in the North East of Scotland.

The project reflects upon issues of spatial agency (land use, occupancy, and mobility) and forms of communal organisation that have developed within these communities. These are set against processes of archiving and documentation in terms of historical and legal practices. The book collates the transcribed interviews and provides an introductory essay setting them in context.

This artist’s book follows the exhibition, Fields, Factories and Workshops at the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, 7 August – 18 September 2010.

English language text with Gaelic, Polish, Russian, Latvian and Lithuanian sections.

Publisher Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, 2012
GNU Free Documentation License
ISBN 9780956271389
494 pages

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Transit Labor: Circuits, Regions, Borders 1-2 (2010)

Transit Labor: Circuits, Regions, Borders #2

When jurisdiction can no longer be aligned with territory and governance does not necessarily assume liberalism, there is a need to rethink the relations between labour, mobility and space. Bringing together researchers from different parts of the world to discuss and pursue various paths of investigation and collaboration, the Shanghai Transit Labour Research Platform moved between online and offline worlds. Sometimes sequestered in seminar spaces and at other times negotiating the city and the regulatory environment, the participants drifted toward a collective enunciation. We could say this was about the production of new kinds of labouring subjectivities that build connections between domains which are at once becoming more irreconcilable and more indistinct: life and work, public and private, political and economic, natural and cultural.

Editors: Kernow Craig, Brett Neilson, Ned Rossiter, Soenke Zehle
December 2010
48 pages
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Transit Labor: Circuits, Regions, Borders #1

Transit-labour investigates changing patterns of labour and mobility in the whirlwind of Asian capitalist transformation. Mindful of the view of Asia as the world’s factory, this three year research project examines the role of creativity, invention and knowledge production in the new economic order being forged from the region’s capitalist centres. Particular attention is given to changing relations of culture and economy in this transition and their entanglement with the production of new subjectivities and modalities of labour.

Editors: Kernow Craig, Brett Neilson, Ned Rossiter
July 2010
20 pages
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Dimitris Papadopoulos, Niamh Stephenson, Vassilis Tsianos: Escape Routes. Control and Subversion in the Twenty-first Century (2008)

Illegal migrants who evade detection, creators of value in insecure and precarious working conditions and those who refuse the constraints of sexual and biomedical classifications: these are the people who manage to subvert power and to craft unexpected sociabilities and experiences. Escape Routes shows how people can escape control and create social change by becoming imperceptible to the political system of Global North Atlantic societies.

Publisher Pluto Press, 2008
ISBN 0745327788, 9780745327785
300 pages

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