Common Bodies
The Ethics of Precarity Politics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3774285 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julia Cooper (0000-0001-6642-6926, University of Toronto) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 3-15 |
| Publication date | 2016-04-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Angelaki (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0969-725X • E-ISSN: 1469-2899 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0969725x.2016.1182717 |
| OpenAlex | W2407923040 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 8 |
The politics of precarity have emerged on the contemporary scene of critical theory with great social force in recent years. This paper looks at the risks and obstacles of positing precariousness and vulnerability as the basis of a universal ethics while also arguing for the socially transformative potential of such a model. More broadly, it considers the crucial question of what stands in the way of human relation and ethical life in an age of neoliberalism and biopolitics, and posits an ethics of resemblance grounded in the commonality of flesh and in the at once singular and universal experience of loss
Biopower · Critical theory · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Neoliberalism (international relations · Political science · Politics · Posthumanism · Precarity · Relation (database · Social science · Sociology · Transformative learning · Vulnerability (computing · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Political Economy and Marxism · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.38 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2019 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |