Skip to main content

ETHNOS_APP

Home • Search • Journals • List 0

Precarity/Coloniality

Bibliographic Data

ID15030615
AuthorsLucas Van Milders (0000-0002-4412-2531, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume24
Issue4
Pages1068-1089
Publication date2021-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueTheory & Event (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1092-311X • E-ISSN: 2572-6633
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/tae.2021.0059
OpenAlexW4248367496
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited11

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

  • Precarity

    Open Access•Louiza Odysseos, Ritu Vij•Global Studies Quarterly•2025

  • Building (and teaching) on shaky ground

    Carolyn Marvin•Multilingua•2026

  • Precarious Citizenship in Kenya

    Open Access•Wafula Yenjela•Eastern African Literary and…•2026

  • Storytelling, precarity and decolonizing practices

    Open Access•Yólotl González, Eliezer Sánchez-Lasaballett•Globalizations•2023

  • The politics of occupation

    Yousef R Babish•Journal of Occupational Science•2025

  • Codified Precarity in postcolonial governance

    Tamanna M Shah•International Review of Sociology•2025

  • Heroic citizenship

    Benjamin Boudou•Citizenship Studies•2024

  • The Precariat

    Open Access•Guy Standing•The Precariat•2011

  • Storming Heaven

    Ron Day•Genre•2002

  • The Imaginary Institution of Society

    Open Access•Cornelius Castoriadis, Kathleen Blamey•The Imaginary Institution of…•1987

  • A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None

    Kathryn Yusoff•A Billion Black Anthropocenes or…•2018

  • Marx beyond Marx

    Antonio Negri•Marx beyond Marx•1991

  • The Problem with Work

    Kathi Weeks•Problem with Work•2011

  • Postcapitalism

    Ian Mcgimpsey, Tannock et al.•British Journal of Sociology of…•2016

  • How many histories of labour? Towards a theory of postcolonial capitalism

    Mezzadra, Sandro Mezzadra•Postcolonial Studies•2011

  • Precarity as a Political Concept, or, Fordism as Exception

    Open Access•Brett Neilson, Ned Rossiter•Theory Culture & Society•2008

  • Racism in Foucauldian Security Studies

    Open Access•Alison Howell, Melanie Richter-Montpetit•International Political Sociology•2019

Unique citing works7
Citations per year2,33
Citation span2023 - 2026 (4)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 7
Ethnos_APP • Open Source Project • MIT License • Frontend v2.0.0 • Privacy and Cookies • API Documentation: api.ethnos.app/docs • API Source Code: GitHub • DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17049435 • Frontend Source Code: GitHub • DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17050053 • cruz.rio.br • Expectantes Misericordiae