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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On 29 September 2026 Elisabetta Costa joined the plenary session on 'Post-societies in the EU and beyond' as a panel member, discussing what happens if technology allows us to work less—or eventually makes some forms of human labour unnecessary. This discussion was part of the online second International Interdisciplinary Conference on 'The future of Human Workforce, Robotization and Automatization'.
This conversation explored the futures of work beyond technological determinism: who decides...
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EASA 2026, held at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań from 21-24 July under the theme "Anthropology: Possibilities in a Polarised World", brought together 2,043 delegates across an extensive programme of panels, roundtables, laboratories, films, and plenaries. For ReWorkChange, the conference became an important moment of collective visibility and, more importantly, comparative reflection. All eight members of our team presented work emerging from field sites in Shanghai, Istanbul, Amster...
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