State of Insecurity
Government of the Precarious
Published on 3. February 2015
128 pages
978-1-78168-714-7 (ISBN)
Description
Years of remodelling the welfare state, the rise of technology, and the growing power of neoliberal government apparatuses have established a society of the precarious. In this new reality, productivity is no longer just a matter of labour, but affects the formation of the self, blurring the division between personal and professional lives. Encouraged to believe ourselves flexible and autonomous, we experience a creeping isolation that has both social and political impacts, and serves the purposes of capital accumulation and social control.
In State of Insecurity, Isabell Lorey explores the possibilities for organization and resistance under the contemporary status quo, and anticipates the emergence of a new and disobedient self-government of the precarious.
In State of Insecurity, Isabell Lorey explores the possibilities for organization and resistance under the contemporary status quo, and anticipates the emergence of a new and disobedient self-government of the precarious.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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Reflowable
ISBN-13
978-1-78168-714-7 (9781781687147)
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02/2015
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Persons
Isabell Lorey, political scientist, teaches political theory and gender studies at the University of Vienna and at the University of Basel.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword by Judith Butler
- The Government of the Precarious: An Introduction
- 1. Precariousness and Precarity
- 2. Biopolitical Governmentality
- 3. Welfare State and Immunization
- 4. Precarization as an Instrument of Governing
- 5. Virtuosity and the Post-Fordist Public Sphere
- 6. Care Crisis and Care Strike
- 7. Exodus and Constituting
- Acknowledgements
- References
