Precarity Activism

Youth and Social Change in Southern Europe
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-26113-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 310 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Sociology

Activist networks throughout Europe developed the concept of precarity at the turn of the 21st century. Retail chain employees, freelancers, cultural workers, caregivers and university adjuncts alike, including those labeled natives or migrants, identified and organized themselves under the umbrella notion of precarity. This ethnography tells the story of precarity activism as it originated and evolved in Southern Europe, tracing its theoretical and linguistic legacy. Highlighting the currency of precarity-inspired proposals for social change, this empirically detailed appraisal recapitulates activist debates over the prospects of flexible labor markets entangled with questions of gender and citizenship. The book’s analysis offers insight into how precarity activism’s visionary notions of sustainable futures speak directly to the tensions of the platform economy.

This genealogy of a grassroots political concept will be of use for postgraduate students and scholars interested in anthropology, cultural studies, geography, sociology and political theory. It will appeal to interdisciplinary fields engaging processes of collective action, knowledge production and the so-called subaltern populations, such as social movements studies, gender studies, critical race and migration studies, dis/ability studies and labor studies. This book will further attract those concerned with changes in production, reproduction and mobility under platform capitalism as it further consolidates precarity as the new normal.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Zielgruppe

General and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Casas-Cortés, Maribel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Precarious thought

Section I. Changing Cultures of Labor

1. Flexible employment or garbage gigs?

2. The rise of a contentious precarity pride

Section II. Shifting Infrastructures of Care

3. Feminist drifts: Mapping uncertain lives

4. Care strikes and care-tizenship? Expanding the precarious glossary

Section III. Permanent Practices of Mobility

5. Mobility at the core of precarity: Nativi e migranti unite!

6. Platform precarities: Organizing efforts at the intersection of Prec-Mig-Gig

Conclusion: A living archive for possible futures: Rethinking labor markets, care organization and citizenship regimes

Über Autor(innen)

Maribel Casas-Cortés is a Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow in the Sociology Department at the Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain. She is currently leading a national research project on food delivery platforms. A PhD in Anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she has published articles in journals such as Current Anthropology, Anthropological Quarterly, Citizenship Studies, Antipode or Politics.