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Biographical note
Isabell Lorey, political scientist, teaches political theory and gender studies at the University of Vienna and at the University of Basel.A welcome short companion to critical debates on precarity, precariousness and precarization . Its first immediate value is that of bringing to anglophone audiences a collection of short and incisive texts that offer valuable insights into both critical debates and political practice on precarity, particularly around European networks and platforms.
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Lorey impresses with the scope and depth of her engagement with the concept of precariousness and the strength of her argument.
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The important contribution of this thoughtful work is to let us understand finally that precarity is not a passing or episodic condition, but a new form of regulation that distinguishes this historical time.
- Judith Butler, from the foreword,
In State of Insecurity, Isabell Lorey explores the possibilities for organization and resistance under the contemporary status quo, and anticipates the emergence of a new and disobedient self-government of the precarious.