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4. Precarity at the Nexus of Governmentality and Sovereignty: Entangled Fields of Power and Political Subjectivities

Author : Nancy Ettlinger

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Abstract

This chapter directs attention to precarity in the microspaces of everyday life. Departing from approaches that conceptualize precarity as an objectified condition, the chapter casts precarity in terms of processes entangled in continual slippage between fields of power that are diffuse and indirect on the one hand, and direct and coercive on the other. Recognizing multiple subjectivities associated with any one actor, the chapter also departs from aligning a particular objectified condition with a particular subjectivity to explain how and why individuals may experience the same objectified condition differently, and to give voice to those who refuse interpellated subjectivities.

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Title
Precarity at the Nexus of Governmentality and Sovereignty: Entangled Fields of Power and Political Subjectivities
Author
Nancy Ettlinger
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

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51096-1_4