#AcademicJob
Assistant Professor in Musicology
📍 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Tenure-track position in musicology (broadly defined), open to candidates across music studies’ subdisciplines. Research specialisms in #QueerStudies, #DisabilityStudies, or #LabourStudies especially welcome.
📅 Deadline: 19/11/2025
https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307114
#Musicology #SoundStudies #Ethnomusicology
Assistant Professor of Musicology
This is a full-time tenure track position. Responsibilities begin on July 1, 2026. The successful applicant will have an active research agenda; normally teach two (3 credit-hour) courses per semester; will be involved in our graduate program; and will have other standard non-teaching duties such as departmental, university, and professional service; graduate and undergraduate mentorship; and participation in our department's vigorous intellectual and artistic life.
'Digital twins and logistical labour: Models, plans and the inversion of the ‘real’' - a new article published in Pluto Journals 'Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation' on #ScienceOpen:
🔗 https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/workorgalaboglob.19.2.0004
#LabourStudies #Logistics #LogisticsLabour #DigitalTwins
Digital twins and logistical labour: Models, plans and the inversion of the ‘real’
<p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" class="first" dir="auto" id="d24518e99">This article argues that digital twins constitute new computational techniques for
the mobilisation and intensification of enduring logics and operations in the management
of contemporary logistical labour. To demonstrate this, the article traces conceptual
and material histories of the digital twin through industrial planning and associated
practices of modelling, simulation, and scenario planning, before turning to the analysis
of an initiative of the British Columbia Maritime Employers Association to predictively
manage longshore labour dispatch. At stake in the digital twin, the article argues,
is an inversion of power between the real and the simulation in planning, labour and
logistics management.
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'The logistical episteme: Tracing the location of warehousing industries in Malaysia' - a new article published in Pluto Journals 'Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation' on #ScienceOpen:
🔗 https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/workorgalaboglob.19.2.0007
#LabourStudies #Logistics #CriticalLogistics #Warehousing
The logistical episteme: Tracing the location of warehousing industries in Malaysia
<p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" class="first" dir="auto" id="d22092e99">The concept of the ‘logistical episteme’ – the systemic organisation of practices,
technologies and discourses geared toward the optimisation of efficiencies and value
extraction – is crucial for understanding how contemporary capitalism reconfigures
labour and geopolitics around computational power. This article explores the emergence
of the logistical episteme by tracing the historical development of location theory
and its integration with contemporary supply chain management. It highlights how algorithmic
models and software shape the production of space and circulation of capital, with
a focus on the case of warehousing industries in Malaysia. This approach allows an
analysis of how the logistical episteme functions as a political technology, governing
labour forces and mobilities, and corroding traditional notions of place.
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'Remote robotics, or the digital re-embodiment of labour' - a new article published in Pluto Journals 'Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation' on #ScienceOpen:
🔗 https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/workorgalaboglob.19.2.0010
#LabourStudies #RemoteRobotics #Logistics #DigitalLabour
Remote robotics, or the digital re-embodiment of labour
<p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" class="first" dir="auto" id="d21826e111">The remote operation of robots in logistics is becoming increasingly prevalent, with
robots being deployed across a variety of sectors and operated by workers from a distance.
This allows manual labour to be conducted remotely. Despite eliminating the need for
physical proximity between the robot and the operator, remote robotics still necessitates
human interaction to control the machinery, a process we call re-embodiment. This
working arrangement introduces constraints on the communities and territories of remote
workers. Rather than deviating from traditional labour practices, remote robotics
extends the reach of capital and perpetuates existing patterns of exploitation.
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View of Review of "Porkopolis: American animality, standardized life, and the factory farm"
Scholarly and community articles about food and food systems
What is "All Hands on Deck"? It's a genuinely cross-disciplinary symposium @ UTS 19-21 July 2023, investigating the future of work, skill requirements and material production at a time of human and environmental calamity. It asks: What kinds of work – paid and unpaid – will be genuinely needed in the future, and what sorts of skills and capacities will this require? https://allhandsondeck2023.com/
Convened by myself and Dr Chantel Carr. The keynote speakers are Prof Alice Twemlow and Emeritus Prof Tim Ingold. The Speakers' bios and abstracts info is due out in a matter of days... and the full schedule and registration will be available soon after that.
#allhandsondeck2023 #futureofwork #futureskills #labourstudies #energyfutures #decarbonisation #justtransitions #environmentallabourstudies #design #designstudies #humangeography #labourgeographies #UTS #materialculture #repair #trades #skill #technicalskill #craft #manufacturing #production #workers #industrialrelations
All Hands on Deck Symposium 2023
All Hands on Deck Symposium 2023. Work, skill & material production at a time of human & environmental calamity. UTS, Sydney. Convenors: Dr Jesse Adams Stein, Dr Chantel Carr.
Petr Nuska
ScienceOpen
Canadian Association For Food Studies
Jesse Adams Stein