Anti-precarity organising in Europe: launch of the EASA report.

Heather McKnight is a critical utopian theorist, with a PhD in Law from Sussex University entitled Reimagining the University through Resistance. She now works as an independent academic and community researcher with Magnetic Ideals Collective. She has been engaged in creating disruptive workshops and spaces of care at conferences, such as the Utopia and Failure conference, where participants built a physical representation of the university out of marketing materials and rubbish. Her current research addresses collective care in the community working with Creative Climate Cafes, Menopause Cafes and research on hygiene poverty with Harriet’s Press, a Community Laundrette.

Fiona Murphy is an anthropologist based in the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies (SALIS) at Dublin City University. As an anthropologist of displacement, she works with Stolen Generations in Australia and people seeking asylum and refuge in Ireland, the United Kingdom, and Turkey. She has a particular passion for creative and public anthropologies and is always interested in experimenting with new forms and genres ― view her TEDx talk on displacement.

Petra Ezzeddine is a social anthropologist at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology , Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague. Her research focuses on gender in migration, transnational practices of care, ageing in migration, the marketization and financialization of care, and applied anthropology. She is currently working on the joint international research project CareOrg (VW Stifung): Research on transnational senior care organisation, work and mobility in Central and Eastern Europe. Throughout her academic career she has been active in advocacy in the field of gender, care and migration. She has worked closely with several Czech and Slovak NGOs, EU and international organisations working with migrant women and migrant domestic workers.

Nasrin Khandoker is a feminist and anthropologist working as a post-doc researcher on the CyberSocial project at UCC. She received her PhD in Anthropology from Maynooth University and has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Limerick and Galway University. She was an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at Jahangirnagar University. Her research interests are gender and sexuality, Bangla folk song, migration, gender-based violence, emotion and affect, embodiment and post-colonial critiques.

Isabel Bredenbröker is a social and cultural anthropologist working between art and academia. They hold a DFG Walter Benjamin Postdoctoral Fellowship which is based between the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH) and the Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik at Humboldt University Berlin. Isabel’s work focuses on material and visual culture, anthropology of art and museums, queer theory and intersectionality, situatedness and autoethnography, colonialism, cleaning and waste. They have produced ethnographic films, worked with field recording and (co-)curated as well as contributed to exhibitions in museum and contemporary art contexts. Isabel’s book Rest in Plastic: Death, time and synthetic materials in a Ghanaian Ewe community has recently been published open access with Berghahn.