Precarious Politics
Anzaldúa's Reparative Reworking
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4520359 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alyson Cole (0000-0002-1911-6092, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 77-93 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women's studies quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0732-1562 • E-ISSN: 1934-1520 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/wsq.2017.0045 |
| OpenAlex | W2767194362 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 9 |
Precarity has become a keyword used to designate social and economic destabilization in a range of contexts. Despite the prevalence of the term, the political implications of burgeoning precarity remain undertheorized. Through an examination of the work of Gloria Anzaldúa, this article argues that the politics of precarity should be understood in relation to the ambivalence precarization generates and exacerbates. I chart Anzaldúa's changing conception of what ambivalence is and how to address it politically by focusing on three figures she employs to depict different modes of inhabiting ambivalence: Shiva, Mestiza , and Nepantlera . While most scholarly attention has concentrated on Anzaldúa's notion of "mestiza consciousness," I propose that she reconceives ambivalence and precarity through the figure of the Nepantlera. As I demonstrate, Anzaldúa moves from an almost Hegelian understanding of transforming fragmentation and instability into a higher form of unity to a conception that turns psychic division, political conflict, and ontological ambiguity from conditions to transcend or resolve into conditions of possibility
Aesthetics · Ambiguity · Ambivalence · Political science · Politics · Precarity · Psychic · Sociology · Gender Studies · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Psychology · Social Psychology · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
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The Precariat
A Place and Space for a Critical Geography of Precarity
The Queer Art of Failure
Nearly Utopian, Nearly Normal
Precariat - What it Is and Isn't - Towards an Understanding of What it Does
Precarity as a Political Concept, or, Fordism as Exception
Precarity's Forms
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2023 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |