Precarious Liberation
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Author |
: Franco Barchiesi |
Publisher |
: State University of New York Press |
Total Pages |
: 362 |
Release |
: 2011-06-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781438436128 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1438436122 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Precarious Liberation by : Franco Barchiesi
Winner of the 2012 CLR James Award presented by the Working Class Studies Association Millions of black South African workers struggled against apartheid to redeem employment and production from a history of abuse, insecurity, and racial despotism. Almost two decades later, however, the prospects of a dignified life of wage-earning work remain unattainable for most South Africans. Through extensive archival and ethnographic research, Franco Barchiesi documents and interrogates this important dilemma in the country's democratic transition: economic participation has gained centrality in the government's definition of virtuous citizenship, and yet for most workers, employment remains an elusive and insecure experience. In a context of market liberalization and persistent social and racial inequalities, as jobs in South Africa become increasingly flexible, fragmented, and unprotected, they depart from the promise of work with dignity and citizenship rights that once inspired opposition to apartheid. Barchiesi traces how the employment crisis and the responses of workers to it challenge the state's normative imagination of work, and raise decisive questions for the social foundations and prospects of South Africa's democratic experiment.
Author |
: Candice Amich |
Publisher |
: Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2020-05-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0810141825 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780810141827 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Precarious Forms by : Candice Amich
Precarious Forms: Performing Utopia in the Neoliberal Americas explores how performance art and poetry convey utopian desires even in the bleakest of times. Candice Amich argues that utopian longing in the neoliberal Americas paradoxically arises from the material conditions of socioeconomic crisis. Working across national, linguistic, and generic boundaries, Amich identifies new political and affective modes of reception in her examination of resistant art forms. She locates texts in the activist struggles of the Global South, where neoliberal extraction and exploitation most palpably reanimate the colonial and imperial legacies of earlier stages of capitalism. The poets and artists surveyed in Precarious Forms enact gestures of solidarity and mutual care at sites of neoliberal dispossession. In her analysis of poems, body art, and multimedia installations that illuminate the persistence of a radical utopian imaginary in the Americas, Amich engages critical debates in performance studies, Latin American cultural studies, literature, and art history.
Author |
: Sanja Dejanovic |
Publisher |
: Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages |
: 227 |
Release |
: 2015-01-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780748683208 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0748683208 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nancy and the Political by : Sanja Dejanovic
Focussed around three core themes "e; capitalism, the metaphysics of democracy and aesthetics "e; these 11 essays emphasise the potential of Nancy's political thought, and collectively situate it within a broader intellectual context which includes engageme
Author |
: Feyzi Baban |
Publisher |
: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages |
: 228 |
Release |
: 2021-09-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780228009191 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0228009197 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Precarious Lives of Syrians by : Feyzi Baban
Turkey now hosts the largest number of Syrian refugees in the world, more than 3.6 million of the 12.7 million displaced by the Syrian Civil War. Many of them are subject to an unpredictable temporary protection, forcing them to live under vulnerable and insecure conditions. The Precarious Lives of Syrians examines the three dimensions of the architecture of precarity: Syrian migrants' legal status, the spaces in which they live and work, and their movements within and outside Turkey. The difficulties they face include restricted access to education and healthcare, struggles to secure employment, language barriers, identity-based discrimination, and unlawful deportations. Feyzi Baban, Suzan Ilcan, and Kim Rygiel show that Syrians confront their precarious conditions by engaging in cultural production and community-building activities, and by undertaking perilous journeys to Europe, allowing them to claim spaces and citizenship while asserting their rights to belong, to stay, and to escape. The authors draw on migration policies, legal and scholarly materials, and five years of extensive field research with local, national, and international humanitarian organizations, and with Syrians from all walks of life. The Precarious Lives of Syrians offers a thoughtful and compelling analysis of migration precarity in our contemporary context.
Author |
: Hein Marais |
Publisher |
: NYU Press |
Total Pages |
: 230 |
Release |
: 2022-07-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781776147748 |
ISBN-13 |
: 177614774X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis In the Balance by : Hein Marais
Examines the need and prospects for a UBI As jobs disappear and wages flat-line, paid work is an increasingly fragile and unattainable basis for dignified life. This predicament, deepened by the COVID-19 pandemic, is sparking urgent debates about alternatives such as a universal basic income (UBI). Highly topical and distinctive in its approach, In the Balance: The Case for a Universal Basic Income in South Africa and Beyond is the most rounded and up-to-date examination yet of the need and prospects for a UBI in a global South setting such as South Africa. Hein Marais casts the debate about a UBI in the wider context of the dispossessing pressures of capitalism and the onrushing turmoil of global warming, pandemics and social upheaval. Marais surveys the meaning, history and appeal of a UBI before even-handedly weighing the case for and against such an intervention. The book explores the vexing questions a UBI raises about the relationship of paid work to social rights, about prevailing notions of entitlement and dependency, and the role of the state in contemporary capitalism. Along with cost estimates for different versions of a basic income in South Africa, it discusses financing options and lays out the social, economic and political implications. This incisive new book advances both our theoretical and practical understanding of the prospects for a UBI.
Author |
: Franco Berardi |
Publisher |
: AK Press |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1570272077 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781570272073 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Precarious Rhapsody by : Franco Berardi
Franco "Bifo" Berardi is a contemporary writer, media-theorist and media-activist. He founded the magazine A/traverso (1975-1981) and was part of the staff of Radio Alice, the first free pirate radio station in Italy (1976-1978). He is author of numerous books, including Cyberpunk, The Panther and the Rbizome, Politics of Mutation, Philosophy and Polities in the Twilight of Modernity, and The Factory of Unhappiness. He is currently collaborating on the magazine DeriveApprodi as well as teaching social history of communication at the Accademia di belle Arti in Milan. --Book Jacket
Author |
: Marcel Paret |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 233 |
Release |
: 2022-02-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501761812 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501761811 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fractured Militancy by : Marcel Paret
Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with activists, Fractured Militancy tells the story of postapartheid South Africa from the perspective of Johannesburg's impoverished urban Black neighborhoods. Nearly three decades after South Africa's transition from apartheid to democracy, widespread protests and xenophobic attacks suggest that not all is well in the once-celebrated "rainbow nation." Marcel Paret traces rising protests back to the process of democratization and racial inclusion. This process dangled the possibility of change but preserved racial inequality and economic insecurity, prompting residents to use militant protests to express their deep sense of betrayal and to demand recognition and community development. Underscoring remarkable parallels to movements such as Black Lives Matter in the United States, this account attests to an ongoing struggle for Black liberation in the wake of formal racial inclusion. Rather than unified resistance, however, class struggles within the process of racial inclusion produced a fractured militancy. Revealing the complicated truth behind the celebrated "success" of South African democratization, Paret uncovers a society divided by wealth, urban geography, nationality, employment, and political views. Fractured Militancy warns of the threat that capitalism and elite class struggles present to social movements and racial justice everywhere.
Author |
: Michael Neocosmos |
Publisher |
: NYU Press |
Total Pages |
: 733 |
Release |
: 2016-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781868148677 |
ISBN-13 |
: 186814867X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Thinking Freedom in Africa by : Michael Neocosmos
Thinking Freedom in Africa conceives an emancipatory politics beginning from the axiom that ‘people think’. Previous ways of conceiving the universal emancipation of humanity have in practice ended in failure. Marxism, anti-colonial nationalism and neo-liberalism all understand the achievement of universal emancipation through a form of state politics. Marxism, which had encapsulated the idea of freedom for most of the twentieth century, was found wanting when it came to thinking emancipation because social interests and identities were understood as simply reflected in political subjectivity which could only lead to statist authoritarianism. Neo-liberalism and anti-colonial nationalism have also both assumed that freedom is realizable through the state, and have been equally authoritarian in their relations to those they have excluded on the African continent and elsewhere.Thinking Freedom in Africa then conceives emancipatory politics beginning from the axiom that ‘people think’. In other words, the idea that anyone is capable of engaging in a collective thought-practice which exceeds social place, interests and identities and which thus begins to think a politics of universal humanity. Using the work of thinkers such as Alain Badiou, Jacques Rancière, Sylvain Lazarus, Frantz Fanon and many others, along with the inventive thought of people themselves in their experiences of struggle, the author proceeds to analyse how Africans themselves – with agency of their own – have thought emancipation during various historical political sequences and to show how emancipation may be thought today in a manner appropriate to twenty-first century conditions and concerns.
Author |
: Isabell Lorey |
Publisher |
: Verso Books |
Total Pages |
: 118 |
Release |
: 2015-02-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781781685976 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1781685975 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis State of Insecurity by : Isabell Lorey
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.
Author |
: Peter L. Berger |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 248 |
Release |
: 1961 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCAL:B4251839 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Precarious Vision by : Peter L. Berger