Precarity/Coloniality

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ID15030615
AutoresLucas Van Milders (0000-0002-4412-2531, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume24
Fascículo4
Páginas1068-1089
Data de publicação2021-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoTheory & Event (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1092-311X • E-ISSN: 2572-6633
EditoraProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/tae.2021.0059
OpenAlexW4248367496
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas11

This paper explores the intricate relationship between precarity and coloniality. It argues that discussions and experiences of precarity—defined as the increased vulnerability to exploitative working and living conditions—are historically steeped in colonial and racial violence. It stages a critique of the recently-emerged scholarship on the future of work that tends to both trivialize the experience of precarity as the deprivation of futurity, and ignore the racialized dynamics through which these experiences are distributed. Through a meditation on the anti-work politics of Autonomia and the armed struggles of the Zapatistas, the argument concludes that it is only by reconnecting the resistances to precarity to the project of decolonization as one against dehumanization that discussions of precarity will find their resonance, strength, and efficacy

Dehumanization · Political science · Politics · Precarity · Scholarship · Sociology · Vulnerability (computing · Anthropology · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Employment and Welfare Studies · Gender Studies · Law