Precarity: A Short Literary History, from Colonial Slum to Cosmopolitan Precariat

Lawn, Jennifer

doi:10.1080/1369801x.2017.1401944

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“…Colonial imaginaries are re-inscribed yet again in claims about (false) equivalence between precarious subjects in the North and South. Seen in this light, there can be no conceptual straight lines that can be drawn "from the colonial slum to the cosmopolitan precariat" (Lawn 2017); nor can the vast swathes of humanity that make up the informal sector or the lumpen-proletariat in the Global South be seen simply as an instantiation of precarity in the south (Munck 2013), or as precursors to precarity in the North (Han 2018). the "patchwork quilt of the South, characterised by diversity, unclarity and insecurity in people's work and life" (Beck 2001, 1).…”

Section: Precarity As a Liberal Analyticmentioning

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The Global Subject of Precarity

Vij¹

2020

International Political Economy Series

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This article explores the universalizing logic of precarity and precariousness in global studies discourse. Originally articulated in the work of Guy Standing and Judith Butler, this logic presupposes a possibility for a global politics of equality between precarious subjects in the North and South based on an emergent shared horizon of suffering. In a close reading of Standing and Butler, I challenge claims about equivalence by calling attention to the liberal analytics that inform their work. Drawing on a postcolonial attunement to historically constituted exclusions, I argue that precarity is better understood as a disordering experience of sovereign subjectivity whose principal referent is the liberal not global subject of precarity. Globalizing the liberal subject of precarity entails the recuperation of its constitutive outside, namely the Third World, as the original site of abjection. The de-politicizing implications of attempts to universalize the subject of precarity are briefly outlined in conclusion.

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Section: Precarity As a Liberal Analyticmentioning

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The Global Subject of Precarity

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2020

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The global subject of precarity

Vij

2019

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This article explores the universalizing logic of precarity and precariousness in global studies discourse. Originally articulated in the work of Guy Standing and Judith Butler, this logic presupposes a possibility for a global politics of equality between precarious subjects in the North and South based on an emergent shared horizon of suffering. In a close reading of Standing and Butler, I challenge claims about equivalence by calling attention to the liberal analytics that inform their work. Drawing on a postcolonial attunement to historically constituted exclusions, I argue that precarity is better understood as a dis-ordering experience of sovereign subjectivity whose principal referent is the liberal not global subject of precarity. Globalizing the liberal subject of precarity entails the recuperation of its constitutive outside, namely the Third World, as the original site of abjection. The de-politicizing implications of attempts to universalize the subject of precarity are briefly outlined in conclusion.

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Dwivedi

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Representations of Precarity in South Asian Literature in English

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Precarity: A Short Literary History, from Colonial Slum to Cosmopolitan Precariat

Cited by 9 publications

References 7 publications

The Global Subject of Precarity

The Global Subject of Precarity

The global subject of precarity

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