"Cuerpos precarios": Habitar, respirar y trabajar en el sur global. Una mirada desde la sociología de los cuerpos/emociones.

This article aims at making some connections and raising the issues regarding risk, uncertainty and precariousness as key categories to analyze social conflict in Global South sceneries. Pointing at collective processes linked to inhabiting, working and living in polluted environments, from a Sociology of Bodies/Emotions we pretend to clarify some of the ways in which risk and uncertainty shape "precarious bodies" in the current phase of capitalist accumulation. In base of an analysis of qualitative empirical material, how risk uncertainty and precariousness became materialized in practices, experiences and emotions is displayed. To reach that objective, the following strategy is followed: First, a brief systematisation of the concepts of risk, uncertainty and precariousness is presented, going over the main findings made in Social Sciences. Then, a theoretical approach on precarious bodies is laid out, stressing its link to a perspective from social conflict. Secondly, some conflict scenes on habitat, environment and labour in urban context are summarised, then connecting them to the notions of risk, uncertainty and precariousness from a Sociology of Bodies/Emotions. Finally, as an open conclusion, some lines pointing at the theoretical-epistemological importance of looking at conflict as a way of approaching "risk societies" are delineated, indicating some of the ways in which habitability, environment and labour configure "precarious bodies" in XXIst Century Global South. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]