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NightWorkPod

Julius-Cezar MacQuarie c/o Nightworkshop

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This podcast is about people working the nightshift. Nightworkers are women and men that pass as ‘invisible' to the rest of us, day people. They are employed in manual work and travel in the dark to work all night. Guests appearing on this show share their experiences of nightwork or investigating the nighttime city. The podcast aims to answer some of these questions: Why do people do the night shift? Who are they? How do they live into the night? How does if feel to work all night while the ...
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This Nightworkpod episode is based on a talk centred on the experiences of a platforming woman offering ‘alternative transport’ services with Bolt, Romania. The talk focuses on one day in the life of S. a Bolt driver. "In July 2021, S. switched from the long hours of international driving between Oradea and Milan, to offering 'alternative transport…
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This talk is part of a conversation moderated by Ann Lui, principal @futurefirm. To listen to the full conversation and watch both films go to Future Firm's website: https://www.thenight.gallery/2021_MacQuarie-and-Penarroyo I was delighted to join @cyruspenarroyo discussing our films at this event organised @futurefirm and hosted by @exhibitcolumbu…
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The nadir point is sometimes reached between 4 and 6 in the morning and represents the lowest level of activity of the human body during the 24-hour life cycle. During that time, I often felt like I was losing my balance and my whole body was getting tired. It was strange, physically and mentally, as if the ground was running from underneath my fee…
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Original title: "24 - Nightwork: migrant labour and embodied precarity in the global city"By contrasens is licensed under a Creative Commons License.Produced & edited by: Maria Martelli & Karol PatakiVisuals: Maria MartelliIntro & Outro: KindStudiosSupport contrasens on Patreon: www.patreon.com/podcastcontrasens"How often do we consider the work th…
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This episode is based on the talk that I gave at the 2020 European Association for Social Anthropologists. I was delighted to take part in the first virtual 2020 EASA panel on Ethnography beyond the looking glass. I presented the work that I have been doing as part of the Nightworkshop project designed to research nightwork communities in urban spa…
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This podcast episode is based on a talk that I gave as part of Night Modes panel, a NIGHT SCENE Virtual event by UCL Urban Laboratory (London, 2020). The episode is complemented by a video recording, which you can watch here. This talk is about the embodied precariousness experienced by migrant nightshift workers. The findings of this research resu…
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Episode: 04Time: 21’45”Date: Nov 2018Place: Interview recorded in Sofia, Bulgaria. Produced in London @anightworkshopGuest: Marion Roberts, Professor in Urban Design, University of Westminster | UKSynopsis: In this third and last episode of the series called “London the Glocturnal City, and its 'other workers' “our first guest, Marion Roberts, Emer…
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Bonus preview of season 2 in the diaries of a nocturnal anthropologist. Coming from the horse's mouth,as it were ... #night #research #nocturnal #london #ethnography #nightethnography #anthropology #nightshift #nightmarket #sleep #exhaustion #breakfast is #lunchtime #fruits and #vegetables #health #diaries #wellness #food#podcasting #university #me…
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Welcome to the hidden world of researching the night. Are you a student or seasoned researcher who wishes to take on the challenge to research at night? Or simply curious about the invisible lives of those up and working all night while the rest of us sleep? In this brand new series, I will be sharing with you my fieldnotes, headnotes, audio record…
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Here I reflect on the issues faced by London's 'other workers' invested in the night shift. As a bonus, I add in an excerpt from the interview with guest, Marion Roberts, Emeritus Professor in Urban Design at the University of Westminster. In the next episode she offers insights into the problematics with night-time expansion in London. Some of her…
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• Please beware that this episode may contain disturbing content •In this second episode, two professionals and long-term London residents, a public health practitioner and a fire fighter, share how night shift work impacts on their circadian rhythms, and the challenges that each face according to the nature of the job that they have preformed over…
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In this episode, Julius-Cezar introduces the listeners to a world of work that is invisible to the diurnal eye and inaudible to the nocturnal sleeper. Ger Duijzings, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Regensburg, joins the host to talk about his Nightlaboratory project. Two other guests, Jeff (a London night bus driver), and an a…
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Hello, whenever it is you're listening, day or night, welcome to the first NightWorkPod. NightWorkPod™ or NWP™ is a portmanteau of night shift work and podcast. NWP is inspired by my doctoral research into the sociology of the invisible migrant night shift workers in London. In this podcast, I introduce our listeners to a world of work that is invi…
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