Vale Castellini
@ntinavale.bsky.social
Postdoc | IIESL | UofT | Scarborough |
Studies Work with Workers, Social & Solidarity economies, & more.
Posts work-related content (mostly)
Studies Work with Workers, Social & Solidarity economies, & more.
Posts work-related content (mostly)
Issue 95 is out! Get your copy and check out my spring/summer reading recommendations 📚
May 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Issue 95 is out! Get your copy and check out my spring/summer reading recommendations 📚
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Everyone! The International Conference on Reproductive Labour, Paris on 21-22 May idhes.parisnanterre.fr/manifestations…
May 3, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Everyone! The International Conference on Reproductive Labour, Paris on 21-22 May idhes.parisnanterre.fr/manifestations…
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On May 14, we’re thrilled to welcome Matt Thompson (@mattthompson.bsky.social) to the IIESL and to Toronto for a discussion of his research on conjunctural municipalism. He’ll be joined by Kanishka Goonewardena, Stefan Kipfer (@skipfer.bsky.social), and Rachel Bok as discussants.
May 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
On May 14, we’re thrilled to welcome Matt Thompson (@mattthompson.bsky.social) to the IIESL and to Toronto for a discussion of his research on conjunctural municipalism. He’ll be joined by Kanishka Goonewardena, Stefan Kipfer (@skipfer.bsky.social), and Rachel Bok as discussants.
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What do you get when you drop algorithmic management and the gig economy’s labor model into the nursing industry?
A disaster for patients and workers alike, writes @katiejwells.bsky.social in @statnews.com.
A disaster for patients and workers alike, writes @katiejwells.bsky.social in @statnews.com.
Uber for nursing is here — and it’s not good for patients or nurses
“I just feel like I am on an island by myself a lot”: How gig working leaves nurses less equipped to care for patients.
www.statnews.com
March 31, 2025 at 8:50 PM
What do you get when you drop algorithmic management and the gig economy’s labor model into the nursing industry?
A disaster for patients and workers alike, writes @katiejwells.bsky.social in @statnews.com.
A disaster for patients and workers alike, writes @katiejwells.bsky.social in @statnews.com.
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Hello Bluesky! We've just arrived.
We are a new research center devoted to the exploration, imagining and planning of alternative economic futures from inclusive and place-based perspectives.
We're based at the University of Toronto, Scarborough (@utsc.bsky.social), led by @sergemont.bsky.social.
We are a new research center devoted to the exploration, imagining and planning of alternative economic futures from inclusive and place-based perspectives.
We're based at the University of Toronto, Scarborough (@utsc.bsky.social), led by @sergemont.bsky.social.
March 17, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Hello Bluesky! We've just arrived.
We are a new research center devoted to the exploration, imagining and planning of alternative economic futures from inclusive and place-based perspectives.
We're based at the University of Toronto, Scarborough (@utsc.bsky.social), led by @sergemont.bsky.social.
We are a new research center devoted to the exploration, imagining and planning of alternative economic futures from inclusive and place-based perspectives.
We're based at the University of Toronto, Scarborough (@utsc.bsky.social), led by @sergemont.bsky.social.
"Price calls for the university to move away from individualized models of accommodation and toward a new system of collective accountability and care."
Online Seminar - April 3 2:30 - 4:00 pm (EST)
Info and registration: shorturl.at/l3yYe
Online Seminar - April 3 2:30 - 4:00 pm (EST)
Info and registration: shorturl.at/l3yYe
March 13, 2025 at 3:14 PM
"Price calls for the university to move away from individualized models of accommodation and toward a new system of collective accountability and care."
Online Seminar - April 3 2:30 - 4:00 pm (EST)
Info and registration: shorturl.at/l3yYe
Online Seminar - April 3 2:30 - 4:00 pm (EST)
Info and registration: shorturl.at/l3yYe
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If you are in Toronto, join us on March 18 for a talk by Manuel Pastor (@profmpastor.bsky.social) on the rise of lithium extraction in California's Imperial Valley and the implications of electric vehicles on economic and environmental justice.
📍 Registration: shorturl.at/TEoB1
📍 Registration: shorturl.at/TEoB1
March 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
If you are in Toronto, join us on March 18 for a talk by Manuel Pastor (@profmpastor.bsky.social) on the rise of lithium extraction in California's Imperial Valley and the implications of electric vehicles on economic and environmental justice.
📍 Registration: shorturl.at/TEoB1
📍 Registration: shorturl.at/TEoB1
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Last year, the City of Toronto adopted some guiding principles for building an inclusive economic development framework.
Join us to explore this framework, understand the grassroots efforts that shaped it & discuss broader questions of Canadian economic sovereignty.
Registration: shorturl.at/Vx4cQ
Join us to explore this framework, understand the grassroots efforts that shaped it & discuss broader questions of Canadian economic sovereignty.
Registration: shorturl.at/Vx4cQ
March 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Last year, the City of Toronto adopted some guiding principles for building an inclusive economic development framework.
Join us to explore this framework, understand the grassroots efforts that shaped it & discuss broader questions of Canadian economic sovereignty.
Registration: shorturl.at/Vx4cQ
Join us to explore this framework, understand the grassroots efforts that shaped it & discuss broader questions of Canadian economic sovereignty.
Registration: shorturl.at/Vx4cQ
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We have launched our website! Find more information on our AAG pre-conference as well as the sessions and activities we've organized during the AAG. geog4pal.org
Geographers for Justice in Palestine
geog4pal.org
January 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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We are pleased to share with you a new blog post written by the GDI Students for Palestine group.
The group questions what conflicts like Gaza mean for the study and practice of global development, as well as the role of universities like Manchester.
Read the piece in full here: bit.ly/3QJFNyn
The group questions what conflicts like Gaza mean for the study and practice of global development, as well as the role of universities like Manchester.
Read the piece in full here: bit.ly/3QJFNyn
Palestine and Global Development - Global Development Institute Blog
At The University of Manchester, GDI Students for Palestine is a collective of voices united by shared values of justice, equality, and solidarity.
blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk
March 6, 2025 at 12:51 PM
We are pleased to share with you a new blog post written by the GDI Students for Palestine group.
The group questions what conflicts like Gaza mean for the study and practice of global development, as well as the role of universities like Manchester.
Read the piece in full here: bit.ly/3QJFNyn
The group questions what conflicts like Gaza mean for the study and practice of global development, as well as the role of universities like Manchester.
Read the piece in full here: bit.ly/3QJFNyn
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Tomorrow, Tuesday @ York University. Readings by Indigenous Authors (10:30) followed by a rally against the announced programme admission suspensions (1:30 in Vari Hall).
February 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Tomorrow, Tuesday @ York University. Readings by Indigenous Authors (10:30) followed by a rally against the announced programme admission suspensions (1:30 in Vari Hall).
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Mental health crisis? The world is literally on fire - of course you’re anxious
Being alive & paying attention to the world around us is deeply traumatic. Yet we keep being told we're in the midst of a 'mental health crisis'.
Are we, wonders @wordsbyhg.bsky.social
www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...
Being alive & paying attention to the world around us is deeply traumatic. Yet we keep being told we're in the midst of a 'mental health crisis'.
Are we, wonders @wordsbyhg.bsky.social
www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...
Mental health crisis? The world is literally on fire - of course you’re anxious
Being alive & paying attention to the world around us is now a deeply traumatic experience. Yet we're in the midst of a mental health crisis?
www.thecanary.co
February 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Mental health crisis? The world is literally on fire - of course you’re anxious
Being alive & paying attention to the world around us is deeply traumatic. Yet we keep being told we're in the midst of a 'mental health crisis'.
Are we, wonders @wordsbyhg.bsky.social
www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...
Being alive & paying attention to the world around us is deeply traumatic. Yet we keep being told we're in the midst of a 'mental health crisis'.
Are we, wonders @wordsbyhg.bsky.social
www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...
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Critical Sociology compiled Michael Burawoy's articles and allowed free access.
I hope other journals will do the same.
journals.sagepub.com/page/crs/vir...
I hope other journals will do the same.
journals.sagepub.com/page/crs/vir...
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February 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Critical Sociology compiled Michael Burawoy's articles and allowed free access.
I hope other journals will do the same.
journals.sagepub.com/page/crs/vir...
I hope other journals will do the same.
journals.sagepub.com/page/crs/vir...
This is the first of a series of events that the IIESL is organizing this semester. Join us! Today, at #UofT #Geography & #Planning 4.30 pm
Excited to welcome Kendra Strauss to UofT on Feb 12 for a talk, “Understanding Precarity in British Columbia: Labour Regimes, Migration and Adverse Inclusion”. This research is part of her SSHRC Partnership grant with @policyalternatives.bsky.social
Register here (in-person only): shorturl.at/TzFUT
Register here (in-person only): shorturl.at/TzFUT
February 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
This is the first of a series of events that the IIESL is organizing this semester. Join us! Today, at #UofT #Geography & #Planning 4.30 pm
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ASA mourns the sudden loss of former President Michael Burawoy, who died tragically in Oakland, CA, on February 3. Burawoy received the ASA Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award and W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award. His will be greatly missed.
February 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
ASA mourns the sudden loss of former President Michael Burawoy, who died tragically in Oakland, CA, on February 3. Burawoy received the ASA Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award and W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award. His will be greatly missed.
Who does the labour of solidarity? Why are they constantly called volunteers? My article on the history of social cooperatives in Italy came out today 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The Invisible Labour of Solidarity: The Glorification of Volunteering and the Feminization of Work in the History of the Italian Social and Solidarity Economy - VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Volu...
Since its emergence in the 1970s, the Italian social and solidarity economy (SSE) has been characterized by an emphasis on volunteers’ contribution, overshadowing the presence of paid workers and the ...
link.springer.com
January 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Who does the labour of solidarity? Why are they constantly called volunteers? My article on the history of social cooperatives in Italy came out today 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
"analyzing the life stories of three garment workers in India, centering their own perspectives about their labor and motivations for entering and exiting particular labor regimes" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
January 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
"analyzing the life stories of three garment workers in India, centering their own perspectives about their labor and motivations for entering and exiting particular labor regimes" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Thank you @grohmannrafael.bsky.social and DigiLabor for organizing this online event! I had a wonderful time chatting about the "labor turn" in communication, media and cultural studies. I appreciated the thoughtful questions from all the participants. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XVL...
January 15, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Thank you @grohmannrafael.bsky.social and DigiLabor for organizing this online event! I had a wonderful time chatting about the "labor turn" in communication, media and cultural studies. I appreciated the thoughtful questions from all the participants. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XVL...
Too bad I am not teaching the gender&work class this year because these moments👇 are offering so much new material AND #outfit inspo
Unleash your masculine energy the Mark Zuckerberg way!
Unleash your masculine energy the Mark Zuckerberg way!
Meta’s CEO frets that too much ‘feminine energy’ is neutering the corporate world. Fear not, this handy guide can help
Please excuse my “feminine energy” for a moment while I give a dainty little shudder. My delicate constitution, you see, has been…
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Too bad I am not teaching the gender&work class this year because these moments👇 are offering so much new material AND #outfit inspo
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The Solidarity of Unconditional Presence - Autumn and i sit down together to offer prayers and presence in response to the fires in LA County. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
The Solidarity of Unconditional Presence
Podcast Episode · How to Survive the End of the World · 01/13/2025 · 18m
podcasts.apple.com
January 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
The Solidarity of Unconditional Presence - Autumn and i sit down together to offer prayers and presence in response to the fires in LA County. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
Utopias is the Spanish acronym for “units for transformation and organisation for inclusion and social harmony” - Unidades de Transformación y Organización para la Inclusión y la Armonía Social.
‘Living proof that you can spend money on the poor’: Utopia comes to Mexico City
A visionary mayor has harnessed her imagination to promote health, wellbeing and culture in one of the Mexican capital’s most impoverished neighbourhoods
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2024 at 4:51 PM
Utopias is the Spanish acronym for “units for transformation and organisation for inclusion and social harmony” - Unidades de Transformación y Organización para la Inclusión y la Armonía Social.
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The RACE.ED SHF Fellowship invites applications from postdoctoral scholars working in any area of the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences in '25-'26 - especially contributions to the @IASH_Edinburgh
'25-'26 theme 'Making A Nation'. www.stuarthallfoundation.org/opportunitie...
'25-'26 theme 'Making A Nation'. www.stuarthallfoundation.org/opportunitie...
Applications open for RACE.ED / SHF Fellowship (2025-2026) - Stuart Hall Foundation
The Stuart Hall Foundation is delighted to continue its collaboration with the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) and RACE.ED, announcing a 2025-2026 Fellowship at the University ...
www.stuarthallfoundation.org
December 9, 2024 at 2:49 PM
The RACE.ED SHF Fellowship invites applications from postdoctoral scholars working in any area of the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences in '25-'26 - especially contributions to the @IASH_Edinburgh
'25-'26 theme 'Making A Nation'. www.stuarthallfoundation.org/opportunitie...
'25-'26 theme 'Making A Nation'. www.stuarthallfoundation.org/opportunitie...