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2021 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

1. Introduction

Authors : Ritu Vij, Elisa Wynne-Hughes, Tahseen Kazi

Published in: Precarity and International Relations

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This book brings together a highly diverse group of critical scholars to explore the confluence between precarity and International Relations (IR). Drawn from varied theoretical commitments and perspectives, the contributors to the volume offer new pathways towards understanding the implications of precarity for IR. This introductory chapter presents the main themes covered in the collection and summarizes key arguments of individual authors. The three themes—Sovereignty, Solidarities, and Work—not only present new registers for engaging precarity, but also help recast the conversation in IR from all too familiar abstractions and towards material and symbolic experiences of precarity on local, national, and global terrains. This chapter introduces some of the principal questions addressed in subsequent chapters and considers how they might reconfigure IR discourses. Does precarity affirm or undermine sovereignty in challenging state-centric notions of the political? As a common condition and point of mobilization, does precarity represent a new labour activism or does it find ethical grounds for solidarities that destabilize identities? Is precarity an unavoidable global condition of work in the 21st century? These and similar questions pose new challenges for IR as theory and practice against the lengthening shadow of precarity.

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Metadata
Title
Introduction
Authors
Ritu Vij
Elisa Wynne-Hughes
Tahseen Kazi
Copyright Year
2021
Book
Precarity and International Relations

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-51095-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-51096-1

Copyright Year: 2021

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51096-1_1