The precarious nature of creative and cultural work is widely acknowledged in academic
literature. However, it has often been invisible in the eyes of policy and policymaking. As …

This review examines precarity through two foci. First, I focus on related terms of the
lumpenproletariat and informal economy, each of which have left their mark on the notion of …

How has capitalism created or enhanced racism? In what ways do the violent histories of
slavery and empire continue to influence the allocation of global resources? Rethinking …

Early in 2009, Denis and I had coffee outside a little café in Padua, Italy. We were attending
a symposium organized by the European Journal of Communication on the consequences …

Employment relations in advanced, post-industrial democracies have become increasingly
insecure and uncertain as the risks associated with work are being shifted from employers …

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 …

In this Foreword to the special issue 'In, Against and Beyond Precarity'the guest editors take
stock of the existing literature on precarity, highlighting the strengths and limitations of using …

Since the mid-1990s, affect has become central to the social sciences and humanities.
Debates abound over how to conceptualise affect, and how to understand the …

Humans are accustomed to being tool bearers, but what happens when machines become
tool bearers, calculating human labour via the use of big data and people analytics by …

This article addresses the question of how to understand the relation among precarity,
differential inclusion, and citizenship status with regard to Syrian refugees in Turkey. Turkey …