Understanding the Lives of Flexible Fathers and Precarious Mothers: A Sentimental Research Journey

In this talk, Dr Anna Carreri from the University of Verona, will draw from her research on the work–life experiences of new parents, drawing on critical feminist thinking to reflect on their life narratives. Anna's analysis will focus on the complexity and structural interdependence between what she describes as profit-making life and life-making, highlighting the entanglement of both sets of activities with social identities. She considers how this entanglement characterises the narratives of precarious and flexible careers in the accounts that participants in her study shared.

The analytical lens she develops foregrounds how gendered life narratives as co-generated by the interposition of temporal, entrepreneurial and parental discourses, producing processes of oppression, but also a sense of freedom, throughout different life stages.

How to attend

This is a hybrid event being held on Colchester campus at EBS.2.68, and on Zoom.