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Banki. "Precarity of place: a complement to the growing precariat literature." Global Discourse 3, no. 3 (December 1, 2013): 450–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2014.881139.

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Fernández-Caparrós, Ana. "Intimations of Precarity in Twenty-First-Century U.S. Drama: Faltering Voices of the Precariat in Annie Baker’s The Flick." Cultura, Lenguaje y Representación 25 (May 1, 2021): 119–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.6035/clr.2021.25.7.

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While much critical attention as been devoted to the representation of precarity on the European stages, and in British theatre in particular, dramatic texts produced in the United States that concern, depict and represent the lives of members of the so-called precariat have barely been the object of critical scrutiny. This article traces the emergence of a growing concern with economic hardship in the second decade of the twenty-first century in American drama and presents a case study of Annie Baker’s The Flick (2013). Baker’s play is illustrative of an aesthetics of precarity that refrains from victimizing the members of the precariat and that plays out the paradoxes of scenarios of precarity as being at once troubling and enabling transformation and visions of possibility.
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Bailey, Lucy. "International school teachers: precarity during the COVID-19 pandemic." Journal of Global Mobility: The Home of Expatriate Management Research 9, no. 1 (February 2, 2021): 31–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jgm-06-2020-0039.

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PurposeThis article explores the initial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on international school teachers, using the findings to theorise agency and elective precarity amongst self-initiated, middling expatriates.Design/methodology/approachContent analysis of online posts on a teaching abroad discussion forum is used to critically examine the thesis that international school educators form part of a global precariat (Bunnell, 2016; Poole, 2019a, 2019b). Thematic analysis charts participants' discussion of aspects of precarity as consequences of the pandemic.FindingsThe data suggest that whilst dimensions of precarity have been exacerbated by the pandemic some dimensions of privilege remain. The term elective precarity is employed to describe the position of international school teachers, and it is noted that the pandemic has eroded the sense of agency within precarity. Posts suggest that teachers are reluctant to be globally mobile when lacking this sense of agency.Research limitations/implicationsFurther research is needed to establish whether agency and elective precarity are useful concepts for exploring the experiences of other self-initiated expatriates during the pandemic. There is a need for further research into the supply of international school educators as key enablers of other forms of global mobility.Originality/valueThe paper proposes two new concepts, elective precarity and agency within precarity, to capture the discourse of self-initiated expatriates. It contributes to the emerging literature charting the impact of the pandemic on self-initiated expatriation.
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Trivedi, Tana. "Precarity and Resistance in Oceanic Literature." South Asian Review 39, no. 3-4 (October 2, 2018): 356–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02759527.2018.1544807.

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SIMONSEN, PETER, and MATHIES G. AARHUS. "Theater of the Precariat: Staging Precarity in Alexander Zeldin’s Love." Contemporary Literature 61, no. 3 (2021): 335–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.3368/cl.61.3.335.

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Akalin, Ayse. "Affective Precarity." South Atlantic Quarterly 117, no. 2 (April 1, 2018): 420–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00382876-4374933.

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Chan, Ngai Keung. "Place-Making and Communication Practice: Everyday Precarity in a Night Market in Hong Kong." Space and Culture 21, no. 4 (November 10, 2017): 439–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1206331217741085.

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Drawing insights from the literature around cultural discourse theory, urban informality, and precarity, this article explores how a group of unlicensed hawkers in Hong Kong engage in a place-making process of precarity. Existing research on precarity has examined the structural change in the labor market in advanced economies and labor unions’ collective resistance. Few empirical studies, however, have explicated how informal workers experience precarity in their everyday life. To contribute to this literature, therefore, this study examines how hawkers in Hong Kong constitute their class identities and the meanings of place while facing legal and spatial ambiguities on a daily basis. While interlocutors articulate different class identities, they constitute themselves as precarious beings through spatial practice. Rather than engaging in collective resistance against precarity, hawkers develop culturally distinctive practices to adapt to the power structure in which they operate. This article highlights the dialectical relationship between spatial practice and precarity as contextualizing precarity in developing Asia.
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Darias-Beautell, Eva. "Who said “vulnerable”? Literature, Canada, precarity, affect." Journal of Postcolonial Writing 55, no. 4 (May 21, 2019): 445–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2019.1602846.

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Kathöfer, Gabi, and Beverly Weber. "Introduction: Precarity/Heimatlosigkeit." Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 54, no. 4 (November 2018): 411–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/seminar.54.4.001.

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Harris, Ella. "Compensatory Cultures: Post -2008 Climate Mechanisms for Crisis Times." New Formations 99, no. 99 (December 1, 2019): 66–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.3898/newf:99.04.2019.

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This paper charts emerging scholarship on what I conceptualise as 'compensatory cultures'; cultures that are, in essence, compensatory responses to crisis, but are presented and received as desirable, even preferable ways of organising life. Since the 2008 crash, precarity has become a new normal and a dominant structure-of-feeling in the global north. I argue that compensatory cultures alleviate precarity's affective impacts, enabling 'business as usual', yet do so in ways that perpetuate that precarity and the conditions that reproduce it. I survey literature on compensatory urbanisms, compensatory labour and compensatory consumption; demonstrating the compensatory as a pervasive mechanism operating across various cultural settings in the post-recession, austerity context. The work explored reveals compensatory cultures as central in remaking places, structuring social relations and producing meaning in crisis times.
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Roy, Nilanjana, and Amy Verdun. "Bangladeshi Migrants of Italy and Their Precarity." Social Sciences 8, no. 4 (April 19, 2019): 123. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci8040123.

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Over the past years much attention has been placed on the ordeal of migrants as they leave their home countries and seek refuge or better lives in others. Given the sudden surge of Bangladeshi migration to Italy in recent years, this article focuses on Bangladeshi migrants in Italy and examines the precarity that they face or have faced. Our analysis is based on observations gleaned from the existing literature and our own field study of 18 Bangladeshi migrants in two adjacent regions in Italy. We look at the precarity faced by Bangladeshi migrants (1) pre-migration in Bangladesh, (2) during migration from Bangladesh as they passed through different countries, and (3) in their current host country, Italy. Precarity can have different but often overlapping meanings, for example, “labor precarity”, “life precarity”, and “place/legal precarity”, among others. We have used these different lenses of precarity to examine the experience of Bangladeshi migrants of Italy. The existing literature on Bangladeshi migrants does not use a precarity lens explicitly, nor does it consider the experience of the migrants in all three of the above stages of their migration together. We conclude that generally these Bangladeshi migrants face precarity in its various forms, in all stages of their journey, and in many spheres of life in their current host country. Recognizing the precarious nature of the existence of many of the Bangladeshi migrants is very important in any discussion of migrant issues that their host country, Italy, is facing.
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Parfitt, Claire, and Tom Barnes. "Rethinking Economic Security in a Precarious World." Critical Sociology 46, no. 4-5 (March 5, 2020): 487–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0896920519850266.

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The introduction to this special issue of Critical Sociology offers an interpretation of recent debates in the precarity literature and the role precarity plays in a wide range of disciplines’ scholarship. It makes the case for a broad conceptualization of precarity, one that recognises many dimensions and sites of precariousness in contemporary life. In addition to providing grounded examples of precarity experienced in this broad sense, this collection of articles focuses on responses to precarity and strategies that individuals, collectives and institutions are taking to address an increasingly precarious life. The collection focuses on Australia, where the authors are based. This affords readers an opportunity to observe the particularities of precarity in Australia, where some elements of the neoliberal welfare state have cushioned, and others have sharpened, people’s experience of volatility and uncertainty.
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Harris, Ella, and Mel Nowicki. "cultural geographies of precarity." cultural geographies 25, no. 3 (March 21, 2018): 387–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1474474018762812.

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This article introduces a Special Issue on ‘cultural geographies of Precarity’. In recent years, the term precarity has become increasingly prevalent in geographical literature. And yet, to date, there remains limited discussion regarding how precarity is being culturally, as well as socially and economically, entrenched. To that end, this Special Issue provides timely perspectives on the cultural geographies of precarity in two key ways. First, it highlights how precarity is mediated and reproduced through a set of collective affects and imaginaries that not only normalize but often actively celebrate precarious modes of living in contemporary society, by branding them, for example, as innovative, flexible and entrepreneurial. Second, it focuses attention on how precarity is lived and resisted through the materialities and micro-space-times of everyday routines and places. Together, the four papers that constitute this Special Issue highlight the importance of a cultural geographies perspective on precarity in examining and challenging precarity as a new normal, which, in an increasingly precarious world, is a key concern for future geographical scholarship.
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Wilson, Janet M., Om Prakash Dwivedi, and Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández. "Planetary precarity and the pandemic." Journal of Postcolonial Writing 56, no. 4 (July 3, 2020): 439–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2020.1786904.

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Ridout, Nicholas, and Rebecca Schneider. "Precarity and Performance: An Introduction." TDR/The Drama Review 56, no. 4 (December 2012): 5–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/dram_a_00210.

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Precarity has become a byword for life in late and later capitalism. How do we pay attention to precarity—economic precarity, neoliberal precarity—through a close reading of the performing body? Does the place of the arts in global capitalism, and the particular relations implied by “affective labor” and “creative capital,” mean that we are working and living in the affect factory? What can theatre and performance tell us about this condition?
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Grenier, Amanda, Stephanie Hatzifilalithis, Debbie Laliberte-Rudman, Karen Kobayashi, Patrik Marier, and Chris Phillipson. "Precarity and Aging: A Scoping Review." Gerontologist 60, no. 8 (November 1, 2019): e620-e632. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnz135.

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Abstract Background and Objective The concept of precarity holds the potential to understand insecurities and risks experienced by older people in the contemporary social, economic, political and cultural context. This study maps existing conceptualizations of precarity in relation to aging and later life, identifies key themes, and considers the use of precarity in two subfields. Research Design and Methods This article presents the findings of a two-phase scoping study of the international literature on precarity in later life. Phase I involved a review of definitions and understandings of precarity and aging. Phase II explored two emerging subthemes of disability and im/migration as related to aging and late life. Results A total of 121 published studies were reviewed across Phase I and Phase II. Findings reveal that the definition of precarity is connected with insecurity, vulnerability, and labor and that particular social locations, trajectories, or conditions may heighten the risk of precarity in late life. Implications and Discussion The article concludes by outlining the need for conceptual clarity, research on the unique multidimensional features of aging and precarity, the delineation of allied concepts and emerging applications, and the importance of linking research results with processes of theory building and the development of policy directives for change.
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Hodge, Edwin. "Making Precarious: The Construction of Precarity in Refugee and Migrant Discourse." Borders in Globalization Review 1, no. 1 (November 25, 2019): 83–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.18357/bigr11201919265.

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In popular media, and sometimes even in academia, people in movement across borders are described as “precarious”; their lives are precarious, their journeys are precarious, their existence is one of precarity. Yet, precarity is not—and never has been—an emergent property of people or their actions. Precarity is a function of the state. It is the state which defines precarity through policy, action (and inaction), and which inscribes that precarity onto those bodies it wishes to regulate. By attaching the label of precarity to migrants and refugees, rather than by describing the actions of states as “making precarious,” discourse obfuscates the disciplinary and normative powers of the state, both at its borders and throughout its area of control. By examining the experiences of non-binary, queer, and trans migrants at Canadian points of entry, and through a critical examination of the literature surrounding the concept of precarity, this paper argues that state interactions with vulnerable people in motion across borders constitute a claims-making process by which bodies are a) made precarious, and b) made into objects for moral regulation and discipline. Bodies in motion across borders are an empirical reality, but their precarity is constructed, reified by the state, and their existence subject to a normative discourse which paints them as threats to be regulated or repelled, or objects of humanitarian concern.
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Shildrick, Margrit. "Neoliberalism and Embodied Precarity." South Atlantic Quarterly 118, no. 3 (July 1, 2019): 595–613. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00382876-7616175.

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The term neoliberalism has appeared in the policies of the Global North for several decades, with the concept of precarity in employment practices coming from the same period. In the last few years, however, precarity has been embodied and personalized, coming to signify not only an epistemological category but something more akin to an ontological state that raises complex questions of identity. My contribution uses it in that latter sense and will take the links between precarity, debility, and more specifically disability as central concerns. In feminist thought in particular, precarity mobilizes both a critical perspective on neoliberalism and a transformative prospective. It allows us to both acknowledge and go beyond a concern with inequities of power, which so strongly signal an expectation of negativity and lack of social justice, to ask how the notion of precarious bodies might already signal a potential for communality and promote the strength of relationality. Rather than following the familiar path of putting the globalization of inequality center stage and calling for new social and political rights for disabled people that take account of their asymmetric specificities, I want to disturb some of the issues—and not least the unproblematized resort to identity categories—through thinking the phenomenological implications of global intercorporeality. As one highly significant aspect of contemporary globalization, neoliberalism pursues a policy of putative self-dependency and rational self-management that seem at odds with the widely recognized capacity of globalization to undermine the certainties of spatial and temporal orientations. While the latter clearly has its own risks, it would be a mistake, I think, to equate the two movements as though both were equally damaging. Instead we should ask how new configurations of time and space are operationalized, and new flows of energy enhanced. What can be gained from the apparent precarity of disorientation, and the entry into what Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari call zones of proximity? For feminist and disability scholars, the task is surely to think new horizons by considering how we might multiply possibilities of revitalization.
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Chaudhury, Sabyasachi Basu Ray. "Dispossession, Un-freedom, Precarity." South Atlantic Quarterly 120, no. 1 (January 1, 2021): 209–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00382876-8795866.

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The partition of the Indian subcontinent forced millions of people to flee to the other side of the borders, freshly demarcated by the British colonial rulers just on the eve of their departure from South Asia. Almost a decade-long migration of people could not, however, settle the boundaries and lives of the people once and for all. The postcolonial rulers retained many of the draconian laws of the late colonial period, like the Foreigners’ Act in India, and laced them with new laws and regulations, thus leading to greater dispossession of people of homes, generating widespread situations of un-freedom, and creating countless refugees and stateless persons, mostly forced to survive in sites of precarious life, without any right to have rights. The concern of this contribution is this politics of dispossession in postcolonial South Asia and its relation with citizenship laws of the region.
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Choonara, Joseph. "The Precarious Concept of Precarity." Review of Radical Political Economics 52, no. 3 (August 28, 2020): 427–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0486613420920427.

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This paper traces the roots of precarity as a concept emerging from French sociological discourse, then permeating through networks informed by Italian autonomism, before re-emerging in the writings of figures such as Guy Standing and Arne Kalleberg. It is shown that, despite the claims of the literature, precarity in employment is not typical in the United Kingdom. Here, temporary employment remains the exception and employment tenure remains stable. This can best be explained by radical political economy. Capital is not interested simply in engendering precarity; it is also concerned with the retention and reproduction of labor power, leading to contradictory imperatives. The resonance of the narrative of precarity, in spite of this, reflects a long retreat from class within radical theory and the insecurities present in working life.
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Barnes, Tom, and Sally A. Weller. "Becoming Precarious? Precarious Work and Life Trajectories After Retrenchment." Critical Sociology 46, no. 4-5 (January 23, 2020): 527–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0896920519896822.

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Much of the large literature on precarious work has largely tended to assume that precarity is shaped by job quality: that precarious work leads to precarious lives. This paper adds to the literature by questioning this line of causality and highlighting the broader range of influences shaping the lives of older workers who enter precarious work after retrenchment from secure, long-term careers. Drawing on a study of Australia’s automotive manufacturing industry, which closed in 2017, this article finds that for older retrenched workers, exposure to precarious employment sharpened life precarity for some but did not lead to precarious lives for others. Instead of a uniform transition from security to precarity, these workers’ life trajectories diverged depending on their household-scale financial security. Key issues influencing the likelihood of older workers’ lives becoming precarious were enterprise benefits and asset wealth accumulated through their previous careers.
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Nguyen, Tu Phuong. "Legal Reform and Struggles Against Precarity: The Case of State Workers' Early Retirement in Vietnam." Pacific Affairs 92, no. 4 (December 1, 2019): 665–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.5509/2019924665.

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This paper contributes to the literature on precarity in Asia by examining the way in which state law interacts with social, political, and ideological factors in shaping experiences of precarity. Different from studies of precarity that see law as a set of state regulations underpinning the precarious economic and political status of individual workers, this paper adopts a socially grounded view of law that incorporates workers' understandings of and engagements with state law in commonplace settings. It also adopts a view of precarity as a complex dynamic of social, legal, and political processes shaping and reproducing workers' experiences of insecurity and vulnerability at work, rather than a broad, identity-based category of non-standard and informal types of employment. Through an ethnographic study of former state workers' working experiences in Vietnam, this paper sheds light on different aspects of workers' collective and individual struggles against precarity and workplace injustice, and the role that law plays in these struggles. It argues that law contributes to reinforcing workers' precarious experiences, which are underpinned by the tension between their expectations grounded in the socialist era and the realities of workplace injustice and insecurity in a market economy.
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Bates-Eamer, Nicole. "Border and Migration Controls and Migrant Precarity in the Context of Climate Change." Social Sciences 8, no. 7 (June 26, 2019): 198. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci8070198.

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Climate change impacts natural and human systems, including migration patterns. But isolating climate change as the driver of migration oversimplifies a complex and multicausal phenomenon. This article brings together the literature on global migration and displacement, environmental migration, vulnerability and precarity, and borders and migration governance to examine the ways in which climate-induced migrants experience precarity in transit. Specifically, it assesses the literature on the ways in which states create or amplify precarity in multiple ways: through the use of categories, by externalizing borders, and through investments in border infrastructures. Overall, the paper suggests that given the shift from governance regimes purportedly based on protection and facilitation to regimes based on security, deterrence, and enforcement, borders are complicit in producing and amplifying the vulnerability of migrants. The phenomenon of climate migration is particularly explicative in demonstrating how these regimes, which categorize individuals based on why they move, are and will continue to be unable to manage future migration flows.
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Ramsey-Kurz, Helga. "Precarity in Transit: Travellers by Helon Habila." Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa 32, no. 2 (July 2, 2020): 168–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1013929x.2020.1795349.

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Crépon, Marc, D. J. S. Cross, and Tyler M. Williams. "Precarity: The Conditions of Labor and Employment." Diacritics 47, no. 1 (2019): 80–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/dia.2019.0012.

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Zechner, Manuela. "Precarity, Militancy and Network-Families." Parallax 19, no. 2 (April 2013): 70–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13534645.2013.778498.

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Schneider, Rebecca. "It Seems As If…I Am Dead: Zombie Capitalism and Theatrical Labor." TDR/The Drama Review 56, no. 4 (December 2012): 150–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/dram_a_00220.

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Reading the zombie marches of the Occupy Wall Street movement beside a 2011 production of Ibsen's play John Gabriel Borkman raises questions about theatrical labor in neoliberal capitalism. What happens when “dead labor” plays live onstage? Or when live protest actions are played across the living dead? Perhaps the answers can be found in considering economic precarity and precarity in/as performance together.
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Sen, Malcolm. "Risk and Refuge: Contemplating Precarity in Irish Fiction." Irish University Review 49, no. 1 (May 2019): 13–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/iur.2019.0376.

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Financial speculation and capitalist accumulation leave spatial and temporal traces. When the waves of the global financial collapse reached Ireland and culminated in the extreme measure of the comprehensive state guarantee, the receding excesses of the Celtic Tiger revealed a landscape that was gentrified and alienating. The spectrality of the ghost estates of Ireland became a synecdochal signifier of Ireland's ignominious fall from the podium of neoliberal grace and the focus of both popular lament and critical intervention. This essay provides a deferred assessment of the uncanniness of dwelling in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland by concentrating on the socioecological fallout of ruins and the longterm casualties of land speculation: that is, transformations of landscape into real estate, and of place into property. Reading Ireland's ghost estates as ‘imperial formations’ that ‘register the ongoing quality of processes of decimation, displacement, and reclamation’ – to use Ann Laura Stoler's term – the essay brings to the fore questions of dwelling and homeliness that suggest more protracted imperial processes which ‘saturate the subsoil of people's lives and persist, sometimes subjacently, over a longer durée’. To demonstrate these arguments the essay will analyse works by Kevin Barry, Sara Baume, and Claire Keegan.
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Bhattacharya, Snehashish, and Surbhi Kesar. "Precarity and Development: Production and Labor Processes in the Informal Economy in India." Review of Radical Political Economics 52, no. 3 (February 11, 2020): 387–408. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0486613419884150.

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We take off from the recent critiques of precarity as an emerging global phenomenon to argue that the processes of precarity in the Global North and the Global South need to be analytically distinguished to bring forth their specificities. We further argue that such an analysis challenges the idea of development as transition, as is prevalent in much of the literature. We focus on the informal economy in India to show that the notion of precarity conceptually involves three distinct aspects of production and labor processes—“non-capitalist” petty commodity production (PCP), subcontracted PCP, and informal wage-labor. We argue that these dimensions have their own particularities that have distinct implications for the process of capitalist development in India. We contend that reproduction of these informal spaces during a period of high economic growth unsettles the imaginary of development as transition.
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Curti, Lidia. "Female Literature of Migration in Italy." Feminist Review 87, no. 1 (September 2007): 60–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400361.

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Starting symbolically from a place of transit and mobility such as the Galleria in Naples, I look at the pace of immigration movements to Italy from both ex-colonial territories and other countries. Precarity characterizes the migrant condition in Italy: entrance and stay permits; work and housing, which are difficult to obtain and always temporary; bureaucratic control is severe and the right to citizenship is distant. The collective amnesia of the colonial enterprise obscures the fact that at least some of the guests of today were the hosts of yesterday. I analyse these, and other aspects, in the literature of migration that in recent decades has emerged in Italy, focusing on women's writing and confronting the problem of how long it will take for this literature to receive recognition in the Italian literary canon. In women's narratives, precarity emerges in the journey of emigration, described as a real odyssey; in tensions over identity and language; in contrasting cultures of departure and cultures of destination; in the problematic concept of ‘home’. Racial and gender differences subsumed in the colour of skin are a recurrent motif. For women, hardships may be more deeply felt: isolation and loneliness is augmented by the distance from children and family; the relationship between past and present more troublesome as it often leads to a double oppression. independence is more fiercely fought for in the affirmation of identity. Finally, I show that, alongside conditions of isolation and despair, strength and hope in the new life emerge from these writings, touching on the importance of writing in Italian and on the motives leading to this choice.
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Johnston, Lynda. "Gender and sexuality III: Precarious places." Progress in Human Geography 42, no. 6 (September 20, 2017): 928–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309132517731256.

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This progress report considers precarious geographies of genders and sexualities at a range of intersecting scales. In a time currently characterized as precarious, anxious and insecure, feminist and queer geographers are well placed to examine vulnerable geographies – including their own – of bodies, lives and labours. The review considers the ways precarity operates as a concept, condition and experience by first asking what and where is precarity? Second, a recurring theme throughout feminist and queer precarious geographical literature is the importance of foregrounding relationality, the multiscalar, and marginalized bodies. Ultimately, what it means to feel ‘secure’ shifts and changes across places, genders and sexualities.
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Bloom, Lisa E. "Planetary precarity and feminist environmental art practices in Antarctica." Journal of Postcolonial Writing 56, no. 4 (July 3, 2020): 547–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2020.1782576.

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Cole, Catherine M. "Volatility and Precarity in the Rainbow Nation." Theater 50, no. 3 (November 1, 2020): 87–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01610775-8651235.

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Bulut, Ergin. "Can the Intern Resist? Precarity of Blue-Collar Labor and the Fragmented Resistance of the White-Collar Intern in Laurent Cantet’s Human Resources." Journal of Communication Inquiry 41, no. 1 (July 24, 2016): 42–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0196859916658028.

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Drawing on the literature regarding internships and cinema of precarity, this article addresses how one “learns” to intern and negotiate his or her class identity between a blue-collar past and white-collar future through an analysis of Laurent Cantet’s Human Resources. In contrast to Lauren Berlant’s astute though pessimist reading of the movie, I propose that internships may highlight the creative and organizing potential of labor power. A critique of Human Resources serves as an analytical lens through which the constitutive role of internship, its political desire to lead to crisis at work and its ability to resist precarity, albeit in a fragmented manner, may be revealed.
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Chattarji, Subarno. "Labor, Precarity, and the University: Thinking about Indian Higher Education." English Language Notes 54, no. 2 (September 1, 2016): 167–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00138282-54.2.167.

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Mt. Pleasant, Alyssa. "Emotional Labor and Precarity in Native American and Indigenous Studies." English Language Notes 54, no. 2 (September 1, 2016): 175–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00138282-54.2.175.

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García Díaz, Lara. "Precarity as a common foundation for `Networks of Subsistence’." Arte y Políticas de Identidad 19 (December 30, 2018): 165–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.6018/reapi.359861.

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El texto crea un análisis teórico que contrasta la literatura relevante sobre temas de precariedad, reproducción social y Commoning, o prácticas sociales de comunización. El propósito del texto es plantear así cómo métodos alternativos de organización creativo social que intentan dar respuesta a la precariedad actual deberían incorporar lo que las economistas feministas Maria Mies y Veronika Benholdt-Thomsen han denominado como `perspectiva de subsistencia’ (1999). Al centrar el estudio en el colectivo de arquitectos españoles Recetas Urbanas y, más concretamente, en su papel en la configuración de la red Arquitecturas Colectivas, el texto propone cómo una `perspectiva de subsistencia’ podría beneficiarse de lo que se ha referido aquí como una `red de subsistencia’. En conjunto, este texto representa una primera aproximación de futuros análisis teóricos sobre las posibilidades de estructuras organizacionales descentralizadas basadas en los Comunes a través de una perspectiva feminista marxista del trabajo reproductivo y las relaciones cotidianas. The paper builds a theoretical analyses contrasting relevant literature around issues of precarity, social reproduction and practices of Commoning. By doing so, the paper raises how alternative methods of creative-social organization responding to precarity should incorporate what feminist economists’ Maria Mies and Veronika Benholdt-Thomsen has coined as `subsistence perspective’ (1999). By drawing on Spanish architect collective Recetas Urbanas (Urban Prescriptions) and, more concretely, their role in the network Arquitecturas Colectivas (Collective Architecture), the paper proposes how a `subsistence perspective’ could beneficiate from, what will be addressed as, a `network of subsistence’. Taken together this text represents a first approximation on future theoretical analyses around the possibilities of decentralized organizational structures based on the Commons through a Marxist Feminist perspective of reproductive work and everyday relations.
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Marshall, Sarah. "Human rights-based conceptions of deservingness: health and precarity." International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care 16, no. 3 (July 4, 2020): 279–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijmhsc-07-2019-0071.

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Purpose Ideas of health-related deservingness in theory and practise have largely been attached to humanitarian notions of compassion and care for vulnerable persons, in contrast to rights-based approaches involving a moral-legal obligation to care based on universal citizenship principles. This paper aims to provide an alternative to these frames, seeking to explore ideas of a human rights-based deservingness framework to understand health care access and entitlement amongst precarious status persons in Canada. Design/methodology/approach Drawing from theoretical conceptualizations of deservingness, this paper aims to bring deservingness frameworks into the language of human rights discourses as these ideas relate to inequalities based on noncitizenship. Findings Deservingness frameworks have been used in public discourses to both perpetuate and diminish health-related inequalities around access and entitlement. Although, movements based on human rights have the potential to be co-opted and used to re-frame precarious status migrants as “undeserving”, movements driven by frames of human rights-based deservingness can subvert these dominant, negative discourses. Originality/value To date, deservingness theory has primarily been used to speak to issues relating to deservingness to welfare services. In relation to deservingness and precarious status migrants, much of the literature focuses on humanitarian notions of the “deserving” migrant. Health-related deservingness based on human rights has been under-theorized in the literature and the authors can learn from activist movements, precarious status migrants and health care providers that have taken on this approach to mobilize for rights based on being “human”.
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Kongerslev, Marianne, and Clara Juncker. "Appalachia as Trumpland: Honor, Precarity, and Affect in Literature from the Mountain South." Polish Journal for American Studies, no. 13 (Autumn 2019) (October 15, 2019): 179–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.7311/pjas.13/2/2019.02.

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Literary and cultural texts by southern poor whites in the hills of the Ozarks and Appalachia and southern migrants in Rustbelt Ohio explode with feelings such as hatred, desperation, and anger, resulting from the continual precaritization and marginalization of the mountain communities. In (auto)biographical texts as well as in literary fiction, the ?hillbilly? community is represented as self-segregated, proud, and independent, with special notions of honor and loyalty. Exploring the (dis)connections between the literary emotions of the people of the Mountain South and the code of southern honor that has produced and sustained them, this article argues that the anxious and angry emotions that Donald Trump taps into as a political strategy are not new, but rather have been building throughout the 20th and into the 21st centuries. The first manifestations that this precarious affective structure was forming can be seen in this regional literature, illustrating the potential in explorations of literary ugly feelings (Ngai, 2005) of marginalized southerners. Thus, the article uncovers how poor whites position their precarious existences in Trump?s USA and how they employ various affective strategies to articulate their whiteness and their anxiety.
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Pratt, Geraldine, Caleb Johnston, and Vanessa Banta. "A Traveling Script: Labor Migration, Precarity, and Performance." TDR/The Drama Review 61, no. 2 (June 2017): 48–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/dram_a_00647.

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Originally performed in Vancouver, the testimonial play Nanay was developed to address the politics and hard ethical dilemmas of caregivers and migrant labor in Canada. When moved from Vancouver to the Philippines, the play was considerably revised with input from the community to consider the problems facing Filipino live-in caregivers from within the context of their home country.
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Usoz de la Fuente, Maite. "Belén Gopegui’s literature in crisis: Anticipating the literatura de la crisis?" International Journal of Iberian Studies 33, no. 1 (March 1, 2020): 9–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ijis_00008_1.

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In recent years, and in response to the global financial crisis of 2008, Spain has seen the surge of a new literary sub-genre, that of literatura de la crisis: novels, essays and short stories attempting to reflect and make sense of the crisis and its effects in the country. In this article, I propose that there is an alternative literature in crisis that, while at times overlapping with the aforementioned literatura de la crisis, also antedates it. Such literature shows a concern with socio-economic phenomena such as unemployment and job insecurity, precarity, the effects of globalization or the rise in inequality long before these issues became fashionable. In this article, I analyse four novels by Belén Gopegui that predate the crisis in order to trace the key features of her literature in crisis ‐ chief among them is her meta-literary exploration of her own assimilation of (or possible complicity with) the hegemonic discourses she seeks to critique. Finally, I contend that the vindication of this literature in crisis is timely and relevant not only because of its connection to the booming sub-genre of literatura de la crisis but also because it is only through the radical interrogation of the status quo carried out by this author that the full emancipatory potential of literature and culture may be realized.
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Banerjee, Bidisha. "Picturing precarity: Diasporic belonging and camp life in Leila Abdelrazaq’s Baddawi." Journal of Postcolonial Writing 57, no. 1 (January 2, 2021): 13–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2020.1866258.

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Maloney-Mangold, Michelle. "Working-Class Hero? Fighting Neoliberal Precarity inBuffy's Sixth Season." Journal of Popular Culture 51, no. 5 (September 16, 2018): 1152–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.12725.

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Jackson, Shannon. "Just-in-Time: Performance and the Aesthetics of Precarity." TDR/The Drama Review 56, no. 4 (December 2012): 10–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/dram_a_00211.

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Integrating post-Operaismo social theory with recent turns in performance studies shows how such theory complicates and is complicated by cross-arts questions around virtuosity and affective labor. Such complications emerge, not only in the contemporary art sphere, but also in the history and theory developed by performance studies as a discipline.
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Alberti, Gabriella, Ioulia Bessa, Kate Hardy, Vera Trappmann, and Charles Umney. "In, Against and Beyond Precarity: Work in Insecure Times." Work, Employment and Society 32, no. 3 (June 2018): 447–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0950017018762088.

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In this Foreword to the special issue ‘In, Against and Beyond Precarity’ the guest editors take stock of the existing literature on precarity, highlighting the strengths and limitations of using this concept as an analytical tool for examining the world of work. Concluding that the overstretched nature of concept has diluted its political effectiveness, the editors suggest instead a focus on precarization as a process, drawing from perspectives that focus on the objective conditions, as well as subjective and heterogeneous experiences and perceptions of insecure employment. Framed in this way, they present a summary of the contributions to the special issue spanning a range of countries and organizational contexts, identifying key drivers, patterns and forms of precarization. These are conceptualized as implicit, explicit, productive and citizenship precarization. These forms and patterns indicate the need to address precariousness in the realm of social reproduction and post-wage politics, while holding these in tension with conflicts at the point of production. Finally, the guest editors argue for a dramatic re-think of current forms of state and non-state social protections as responses to the precarization of work and employment across countries in both the Global ‘North’ and ‘South’.
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Ndlovu, Isaac. "Politically induced economic precarity, syncretism and female representations in Chigumadzi’s Sweet Medicine." Agenda 30, no. 3 (July 2, 2016): 96–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10130950.2016.1251227.

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Attewell, Nadine. "Not the Asian You Had in Mind: Race, Precarity, and Academic Labor." English Language Notes 54, no. 2 (September 1, 2016): 183–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00138282-54.2.183.

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Gagiano, Annie. "Precarity, Protectedness and Power in Emmanuel Jal's WARchild: A Boy Soldier's Story." Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa 32, no. 2 (July 2, 2020): 187–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1013929x.2020.1795352.

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Macdonald, Marie-Paule, and Sheila Petty. "Afrofuture ecosystems." International Journal of Francophone Studies 23, no. 3 (December 1, 2020): 331–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ijfs_00026_4.

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Recently, there has been a surge of African screen media representations of environmental awareness and solutions for sustainable communities as the Global South experiences increasing urban migration and climate change. Much of the focus in this work is on the precarity of daily life for those on the margins of large urban agglomerations. This article brings together theories and practices from the disciplines of urbanism, architecture and documentary cinema studies to examine some examples of how African artists are bringing attention to issues of urban precarity, climate change, survival and growth on the continent.
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Owen, Louise. "“Work That Body”: Precarity and Femininity in the New Economy." TDR/The Drama Review 56, no. 4 (December 2012): 78–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/dram_a_00215.

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Adapting elements of exotic dance, burlesque, and circus, fitness pole dancing is taught and practiced globally. Exemplifying post-feminism's putative “freedoms,” it represents a scene of precarious labor in the new economy, and evidences the continued purchase of older patriarchal constructions of “women's work” and “precarity” in capitalism.
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