Precarious Writings. Reckoning the Absences and Reclaiming the Legacies in the Current Poetics/Politics of Precarity

Casas Cortés, M. (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Resumen: Scholarly debates over precarity are gaining unprecedented visibility across fields. From labor insecurity forming a growing dangerous class to the existential condition of vulnerability induced by millennial capitalism, precarity has become an object of both empirical study and theoretical reflection. While European social movements have been organizing and writing about precarity from the late 1970s to today, still, from the US perspective, the term precarity might be mistakenly taken as strictly a scholarly invention. “Precarious Writings” offers an important corrective to the ways that precarity has been taken up in anthropology and cognate disciplines, addressing the specific epistemological and political limitations of existing usages and returning the concept to its overlooked grassroots history in social movement struggles in southern Europe. By returning precarity to these activist roots, this paper makes the case for the recognition of social movements as knowledge producers as well as sources of theoretical insight and innovation in their own right. By failing to recognize precarity’s development within contentious struggles, scholarly uses miss how the activist notion enables identity reformulations toward a kind of “precarity pride.” That is, the politicization of insecurity has become a source for nurturing a fluid space of political creation.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.1086/716721

Año: 2021

Publicado en: CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY 62, 5 (2021), 510-538
ISSN: 0011-3204

Factor impacto JCR: 3.226 (2021)

Categ. JCR: ANTHROPOLOGY rank: 10 / 93 = 0.108 (2021) - Q1 - T1

Factor impacto CITESCORE: 5.5 - Social Sciences (Q1)

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.83 - Archeology (Q1) - Anthropology (Q1)

Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/RYC-2018-024990-I

Tipo y forma: Artículo (Versión definitiva)

Área (Departamento): Área Sociología (Dpto. Psicología y Sociología)