Precarity & Inequality Lab Workshop: Allison Wigen

Launched as a joint-project between Boston University‘s Sociology and Management and Organizations departments in April 2020, the Precarity Lab has provided doctoral students and faculty members an intellectual community for discussing and developing research projects concerning today’s precarious nature of work, organizations, and markets. In this workshop, we will workshop Allison Wigen’s paper, “Fishermen as Artists: Cultural Production in Times of Change.” Allison Wigen is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at Boston University. Her research and writing focus on culture, work, environment, inequality, and social theory. Her dissertation research explores the relationship between labor and cultural production during times of social and environmental upheaval. Utilizing ethnographic, historical, and narrative methods, she examines how commercial fishermen’s work and artmaking have evolved amid the backdrop of environmental shifts spanning from the nineteenth-century Industrial Revolution to contemporary climate change.