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PatchWORK

A Patch of Land: Re-considering Work as a Life-Sustaining Practice in the Post-Socialist Semi-Periphery Through Intergenerational Childhood Memories

PatchWORK

explores the intergenerational childhood memories of children´s participation in various subsistence modes in a rural area in Slovenia and examines the concept of work as a life-sustaining practice.

Project Goals

The project aims to open up alternatives for sustainable and mutual coexistence within our living environments through work experiences that are intrinsically entangled and coevolving with society, the environment, and the economy. Furthermore, the project seeks to retheorize children’s participation in work as not determined by purely economic rationality or educational agendas but as embedded in human and more-than-human relationality, reciprocity, and care.

Funded by

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe under MSCA postdoctoral fellowship (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, grant agreement 101061450).