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- Precariousness is living socially and recognising that one's life is always in the hands of and dependent upon the other. Precarity, on the other hand, describes a few different conditions that pertain to living beings. Anything living can be expunged at will or by accident; and its persistence is in no sense guaranteed.
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I then turn to the second pole of precarity to chart a tension between asserting a common condition of ontological precarity and the impulse to describe the various ways in which vulnerability appears within forms of life.
Precarity (also precariousness) is a precarious existence, lacking in predictability, job security, material or psychological welfare. The social class defined by this condition has been termed the precariat.
Aug 8, 2022 · The rise of precarity and precariousness. The term precarity has, in recent years, emerged as a prominent category in discussions of contemporary work and employment, class, the transformation of social conditions and the subjectivities present in contemporary societies.
- Joseph Choonara
Nov 15, 2022 · This takes us to the difference between precariousness and precarity, which should be read in relation to the socially and politically produced inequality. All lives are dependent on the networks of hands.
- Adriana Zaharijević
- Precarity
- The Ontological Condition of Precariousness
- Precarity as Part of Neoliberal Capitalism
- The ‘Precariat’ and Class Formation
- Conclusion: The Politics of Labor
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Widespread changes in the world capitalist economy over more than forty years significantly impact the lives of people all over the globe. Wholesale disinvestment from historic industrial centers, investment in newly industrialising zones, financialization, real estate speculation, and rapid urbanization produce a new geography of capitalism, as in...
Philosopher Judith Butler’s writing is a cornerstone for the growing body of literature on precarity. Butler draws a critical distinction between ‘precariousness’ and ‘precarity’. She sees precariousness as a generalised human condition that stems from the fact that all humans are interdependent on each other and therefore all are vulnerable. In he...
A new historical moment? Precarity is often used to describe the late-twentieth century transformation of work from stable, full-time jobs toward a flexible labour regime, commonly identified as the shift from Fordism to post-Fordism. The Fordist compact points to the compromise between capital, labour unions, and states that was negotiated after w...
These observations on the history and spatial reach of insecurity not withstanding, some theorists nevertheless maintain that precarity captures a major structural transformation in economic life, and that it fundamentally upends older political identities and alliances. Italian autonomist Marxists Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri (2000) advance thi...
Debates about the existence of a distinct and new global precariat and the politics of such a grouping are not resolved. They nonetheless generate innovative work and raise important questions. Broad areas of inquiry are influenced by ontological perspectives on life under conditions of violence, social isolation, and economic uncertainty, while po...
Al‐Mohammad, H. 2017. A kidnapping in Basra: the struggles and precariousness of life in postinvasion Iraq. Cultural Anthropology 27(4), 597-614. Allison, A. 2013. Precarious Japan.Durham, N.C: Duke University Press. — — — 2016. Precarity: commentary by Anne Allison. Curated Collections, Cultural Anthropologywebsite (available on-line: https://cula...
Sharryn Kasmir is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at Hofstra University in New York. Her research focuses on industrial workers, and she has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in the Mondragón cooperatives in the Basque Region of Spain and at General Motors’ Saturn automobile plant in Tennessee. She is the author of The myth of Mondragon: coopera...
Oct 28, 2022 · Precarity theory focuses on processes which transform precariousness into socially-constructed and differentially-experienced precarity. Intersectionality recognises that different women experience gender-based disadvantage or oppression differently.
Aug 8, 2022 · To answer these questions, this article proposes a definition of the concepts of ‘precarity’, ‘precariousness’ and ‘precariat’ and then focuses specifically on the precariousness ...
