Precarity as a Political Concept, or, Fordism as Exception
Abstract
In 2003, the concept of precarity emerged as the central organizing platform for a series of social struggles that would spread across the space of Europe. Four years later, almost as suddenly as the precarity movement appeared, so it would enter into crisis. To understand precarity as a political concept it is necessary to go beyond economistic approaches that see social conditions as determined by the mode of production. Such a move requires us to see Fordism as exception and precarity as the norm. The political concept and practice of translation enables us to frame the precarity of creative labour in a broader historical and geographical perspective, shedding light on its contestation and relation to the concept of the common. Our interest is in the potential for novel forms of connection, subjectivization and political organization. Such processes of translation are themselves inherently precarious, transborder undertakings.
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- Population geography III: Precarity, dead peasants, and truncated life
- Continuums of precarity: refugee youth transitions in American high sc...
- Redoing feminism: digital activism, body politics, and neoliberalism
- The Regime of Contract in South African Retailing: A History of Race, ...
- Positioning Virtual Workers Within Space, Time, and Social Dynamics
- Young Entrepreneurs and Creative Collectives: Greek New Media Workers ...
- Towards More Insecurity? Virtual Work and the Sustainability of Creati...
- Caught in a Bad Romance? Affective Attachments in Contemporary Academi...
- Invisible, solidary, unbranded and passionate: everyday life as a free...
- The productive and disruptive methodology of doing fieldwork at work
- Beckett and the Character of the Unchosen; Or, the Time of Precarity
- ‘I'm still a hustler’: entrepreneurial responses to precarity by parti...
- Hyper-precarious lives...
- Longing for “Normal” Post-Fordism: Cape Verdean Labor-Power on a Lisbo...
- Newswork Within a Culture of Job Insecurity
- Staging precariousness: The Serpica Naro catwalk during the Milan Fash...
- Playboring in the Tester Pit...
- The Precarization Effect
- Let’s Kill the Messenger! The Reception and Recognition of the Precari...
- The Precarious Status of Migrant Labour in Greece: Evidence from Rural...
- Industrial District and the Multiplication of Labour: The Chinese Appa...
- Introduction
- Sex Trafficking and the Making of a Feminist Subject of Analysis
- The Natasha Trade and the Post-Cold War Reframing of Precarity
- Second World/Second Sex
- Lost in Transition
- Freedom as Choice and the Neoliberal Economism of Trafficking Discours...
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Case Studies of Precarious Life in Johannesburg
- Healing and Deliverance in the City of Gold
- Prima e dopo la crisi. L'evoluzione delle mobilitazioni dei lavoratori...
- The government of poverty and the arts of survival: mobile and recombi...
- Education and Training as Projectised and Precarious Politics
- The containment of labour in accelerated global supply chains: the cas...
- The Precarity of Feminisation
- What is a research platform? Mapping methods, mobilities and subjectiv...
- Experience Machines
- Creative Accommodations
- Representations of Precarity in Italy
- Introduction: Are We All Cultural Workers Now?
- At Risk of Deskilling and Trapped by Passion: A Picture of Precarious ...
- Digital Democracy and Trade Unionism
- The freelance translation machine: Algorithmic culture and the invisib...
- Translating in the public sphere: Birth pangs of a developing democrac...
- Architects of time: Labouring on digital futures
- Pyramid subcontracting and moral detachment: Down-sourcing risk and re...
- Social Margins and Precarious Work In Vietnam
- Precarious, Informalizing, and Flexible Work...
- The New European Cinema of Precarity: A Transnational Perspective
- Conclusion
- Image and Music in the Art of Willie Birch
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Pain of Life
- From Lifelong to Liquid Japan
- Ordinary Refugeeism
- Home and Hope
- The Social Body—in Life and Death
- Cultivating Fields From the Edges
- In the Mud
- Notes
- References
- Participant Activism: Exploring a Methodology for Scholar-Activists Th...
- “Work That Body”: Precarity and Femininity in the New Economy
- The Politics of Precarity: Views Beyond the United States
- Anarchy, Geography and Drift
- Autonomous Youth? Independence and Precariousness in the Indonesian Un...
- Between Inclusion and Exclusion: On the Topology of Global Space and B...
- From Despair to Resistance: Maya Workers in the Maquilas of Guatemala
- Precarity
- WikiLeaks Affects: Ideology, Conflict and the Revolutionary Virtual
- Creative Economy and Labor Precarity: A Contested Convergence
- The Rise of the Productive Non-Place...
- Class
- TEA PARTY MOVEMENT: THE AMERICAN ‘PRECARIAT’?
- Dualização dúplice: sobre a flexibilização dos serviços de ensino em P...
- Introduction
- Cruel Optimism
- Intuitionists
- Slow Death (Obesity, Sovereignty, Lateral Agency)
- Two Girls, Fat and Thin
- Nearly Utopian, Nearly Normal
- After the Good Life, an Impasse
- On the Desire for the Political
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Neoliberalism as unexceptional: Economic zones and the everyday precar...
- Craft labour and creative industries
- Autonomy Guaranteed? Cultural Work and the “Art–Commerce Relation”
- ‘Thinking Outside the Box’? Trade Union Organizing Strategies and Poli...
- Rebels with a Cause: The December 2008 Greek Youth Movement as the Con...
- The world seen from a taxi: Students-migrants-workers in the global mu...
- Transforming work: new forms of employment and their regulation
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