Precarious Workers, Precarious Residents and Authoritarian Politics

Becoming just and sustainable cities, rethinking of urban sustainable development with social justice in the center is required. At the same time, difference right to the city among diverse urban residents plays an important role in policy process and should be explored as well.

As an urbanization increases workforce demand and attracts both internal and international migrant workers, the rising flexible employment becomes global phenomenon and causes precarious workers as well as precarious residents. The intensification of urban labor does not guarantee their right to the city, since their precarity at work, which treat them as temporary workers as well as temporary dwellers, excludes them from development policies including affordable housing, social protection system. As precarious residents, their political rights as voters for urban governance policies are denied and dismissed from policy development process causing procedural injustice.

In some countries, it is assumed that the emerging of authoritarian politics is the result of the growing precariat. The panel would like to explore more on this process and investigate the reason behind from various aspects including motivations. All researchers and practitioners from any discipline are welcome to engage with these themes.