precarity

A state of economic insecurity (often related to contingent and unpredictable employment under capitalism) often linked to a lack of social and psychological well-being.  Precarity can also be described as the experience of displacement, dispossession, disenfranchisement stemming from exposure to violence, forced migration, and other political and environmental sources of inequitably shared vulnerability. ​

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READINGS

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• Allison, Anne. 2014. Precarious Japan. Duke University Press Books.

• Berardi, Franco “Bifo.” 2009. Precarious Rhapsody: Semocapitalism & the Pathologies of Post-Alpha Generation. Translated by Arianna Bove et al. London: Minor Compositions. https://b-ok.org/book/846317/dbde48.

• Butler, Judith. 2006. Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence. London ; New York: Verso.

• _____. 2010. Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable?  London ; New York: Verso. 

• _____.  2012. “Precarious Life, Vulnerability, and the Ethics of Cohabitation.” The Journal of Speculative Philosophy 26 (2): 134. https://doi.org/10.5325/jspecphil.26.2.0134.

• Fisher, Mark. 2015. “Time-wars: towards an alternative for the neo-capitalist era.” Gonzo (circus) (blog). January 6, 2015. https://www.gonzocircus.com/exclusive-essay-time-wars-towards-an-alternative-for-the-neo-capitalist-era/.

• Fuchs, Anne. 2019. Precarious Times: Temporality and History in Modern German Culture. Cornell University Press.

• Happ, Mary Beth. 2016. “Think Precarity, Not Frailty in Care for Older People.” Geriatric Nursing 37 (3): 235–36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gerinurse.2016.04.014.

• LaFlamme, Marcel. 2016. “Precarity: Interview with the Authors.” Cultural Anthropology, September. https://culanth.org/curated_collections/21-precarity/discussions/27-precarity-interview-with-the-authors.

• Precarity Lab. 2019. “Digital Precarity Manifesto.” Social Text 37 (4): 77–93. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-7794402.

• Shaw, Jennifer, and Darren Byler. n.d. “Precarity.” Cultural Anthropology. Accessed August 8, 2018. https://culanth.org/curated_collections/21-precarity.

• Standing, Guy. 2011. The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class. Bloomsbury Academic.

• _____. 2014. A Precariat Charter: From Denizens to Citizens. Bloomsbury Academic.

• _____. 2016. “Meet the Precariat, the New Global Class Fuelling the Rise of Populism.” World Economic Forum. November 9, 2016. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/precariat-global-class-rise-of-populism/.