Overview
- Considers the implications of precarity for Sovereignty, Solidarities and Work in International Relations
- Draws on a broad range of critical theoretical resources including literatures on aesthetics and psychoanalysis as well as feminist, Foucauldian, Marxian and postcolonial social theory
- Examines the entanglements of the global, national and local in the discursive and material production of precarity and precariousness in the present conjuncture
Part of the book series: International Political Economy Series (IPES)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Precarity and Sovereignty
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Precarity and Solidarities
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Precarity and Work
Reviews
“This book is an outstanding contribution to much needed innovative conceptual work in IR. It engages the debates on precarity to problematize the sovereign imagination that informs, and limits, critical investigations of contemporary world politics. It moves beyond the commonplace denunciations of precarity/precariousness as a concept restricted to the experiences of capitalist social formations of the ‘North’ turning its focus on the multiple and transversal connections that make the fractured space of the international today. Without giving in to universalistic readings of a common global precariousness, the authors in this volume explore paradoxes, complexities, and potentials of different instantiations of precarity in the production of politics of contestation, resistance and solidarity. An indispensable collection for researchers and students invested in reimagining critical IR.”
–Joẵo Nogueira, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
–Anna M. Agathangelou, Department of Politics, York University “Intervening in ‘precarity talk’ across a variety of fields, this important volume brings together critical transnational analyses of the key IR concepts of Sovereignty, Solidarities, and Work. Highlighting precarious working conditions, lived experience, and contracts as politically produced effects the chapters carefully draw out the heterogeneous and ongoing implications of the withdrawal of the welfare state, the gradual erosion of social protection in the era of financialized neoliberal capitalism, the (re)emergence and recognition of the fragile and precarious condition of workers in capitalist social relations. Scholars and students of Critical Management Studies and intersectional decolonisation will equally benefit from close consideration of these fine chapters.” –Amit S. Rai, Queen Mary, University of London
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ritu Vij is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Aberdeen, UK.
Tahseen Kazi is Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Georgia Southern University, USA.
Elisa Wynne-Hughes is Lecturer in International Relations at Cardiff University, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Precarity and International Relations
Editors: Ritu Vij, Tahseen Kazi, Elisa Wynne-Hughes
Series Title: International Political Economy Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51096-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-51095-4Published: 06 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-51098-5Published: 07 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-51096-1Published: 05 October 2020
Series ISSN: 2662-2483
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2491
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 336
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: International Political Economy, International Relations Theory, Comparative Politics