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Harry Pettit is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Radboud University. His research interests encompass economic, urban, and cultural geography, with a conceptual focus on diversifying mainstream perceptions within the field of economic geography. Specifically, he explores alternatives to narrow economistic and waged-centric approaches to understanding work and labor. Pettit has broad empirical interests that include the examination of diverse practices that individuals employ to survive within late-capitalist systems, which often produce high levels of precarity and impoverishment. His research projects have delved into various aspects, including the strategies employed by young Egyptian men coping with enduring precarity in the labor market, the emotional labor connected to feelings of hope, and the dynamics of food banks in London where demand for resources exceeds supply. Additionally, he investigates the cash circulation within the platform economy in Beirut, Lebanon, focusing on the struggles between platform companies and workers amidst a prolonged economic crisis. His work contributes to critical economic geography and engages with themes such as labor, money, welfare, and ethnography, particularly in the MENA region.
Radboud University • Nijmegen
Teaching and conducting research in the Department of Geography, focusing on economic and cultural geography.
Applies to Research Master's in Linguistics and Communication Sciences (Centre for Language Studies/Department of Language and Communication).