What are the consequences of remote work and always-on-connectivity on people’s everyday lives? How do these shape social institutions such as the home, family, household and friendship, as well as broader processes of social change?
ReWorkChange aims to answer these questions by delivering a comparative ethnographic study of the societal consequences of remote work in eight different countries: Belgium, China, India, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Romania, and Turkey.
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The ReWorkChange workshop, held on 20–21 January at the University of Antwerp, marked the official launch of the ERC-funded project Remote Work and Social Change. Bringing together scholars from anthropology, media studies, and related fields, the workshop created a space for sustained reflection on how remote and hybrid work are transforming everyday life across different social and geographical contexts.
The opening session, led by Elisabetta Costa, set the tone by askin...
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We are excited to invite you to the workshop ‘Remote Work and Social Change’.
This is an in-person, two-day event taking place on 20-21 January at the University of Antwerp, in collaboration with ViDi, the Visual and Digital Cultures Research Centre. The workshop will explore how digitally enabled remote work is reshaping everyday life, mobility, social relations, and lived environments across diverse contexts and countries.
Please sign up here, as we o...
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