conflict & communication online, Vol. 21, No. 2, 2022
www.cco.regener-online.de
ISSN 1618-0747

Angeliki Manafi, Georgia Manafi & Wassilios Baros
Precarious subjects as potential agents of social transformation in the light of Critical Pedagogy

Will the “precariat” –  Guy Standing’s “class in the making” – be able to function as a catalyst for social change? This question led us to deal with precarious population groups and examine their attitudes towards social injustice. Our research was carried out on two different groups of people who work and live under precarity conditions. It has been found that there are elements in society that not only passivize precarious subjects, entrapping them in a sense of the “inevitable”, but also function to corrode the solidarity among these subjects themselves. Precarious subjects are prone to rationalize alienation and tend to compromise with the “expropriation” of their anger. The purpose of our survey is to discover what this issue might mean, if studied from the Critical Pedagogy perspective.

The authors:

Angeliki Manafi is a PhD candidate in Intercultural Pedagogy at the Democritus University of Thrace in Greece, and scientific associate in the Project group Empirical Migration Research Salzburg (PREMISA) that conducts surveys on migration and education.
Address: 8, P. Faneromenis Str., 57010, Pefka, Thessaloniki, Greece
e-Mail: angemana71@gmail.com

Georgia Manafi is a PhD candidate of Intercultural Pedagogy at the University of Ioannina in Greece and scientific associate in the Project group Empirical Migration Research Salzburg (PREMISA) that conducts surveys on migration and education.
Address: 160, Ath. Diakou Str., 38333, Volos, Greece
e-Mail: georgiamanafi@gmail.com

Wassilios Baros is a professor of educational research at the University of Salzburg, Austria and leads the Project group Empirical Migration Research Salzburg (PREMISA). His research centers on migration and political education research, latent style analyses of communication cultures and recipient research.
Address: FB Erziehungswissenschaft, Universität Salzburg, Erzabt-Klotz-Str. 1, 5020 Salzburg.
e-Mail: wassilios.baros@plus.ac.at