Precarious Writings

Scholarly debates over precarity are gaining unprecedented visibility across fields. From labor insecurity forming a growing dangerous class to the existential condition of vulnerability induced by millennial capitalism, has become an object both empirical study and theoretical reflection. While European social movements have been organizing writing about from late 1970s today, still, US perspective, term might be mistakenly taken as strictly scholarly invention. “Precarious Writings” offers important corrective ways that up in anthropology cognate disciplines, addressing specific epistemological political limitations existing usages returning concept its overlooked grassroots history movement struggles southern Europe. By these activist roots, this paper makes case for recognition knowledge producers well sources insight innovation their own right. failing recognize precarity’s development within contentious struggles, uses miss how notion enables identity reformulations toward kind “precarity pride.” That is, politicization source nurturing fluid space creation.