Definitions
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- noun sociology a condition of
existence withoutpredictability or security, affecting material or psychological welfare
Etymologies
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Examples
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Normally Americans and Europeans fail to agree about "precarity" - Americans think their precarity is a kind of fluidity and dynamism, while Europeans are lazy featherbedders dawdling over two-hour lunches.
Renegade Futurist 2009
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Normally Americans and Europeans fail to agree about "precarity" - Americans think their precarity is a kind of fluidity and dynamism, while Europeans are lazy featherbedders dawdling over two-hour lunches.
Renegade Futurist 2009
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We now come to the useful word "precarity," which is part of the American lifestyle but distant from American politics.
Renegade Futurist 2009
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Post-autonomist terms such as precarity take on different and more precise meanings as Bifo's analysis of shifts in labour relations from an industrial to a post-industrial economy are tied to mutations in subjectivity and the proliferation of pathologies.
Mute magazine - Culture and politics after the net - CULTURE AND POLITICS AFTER THE NET 2009
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We now come to the useful word "precarity," which is part of the American lifestyle but distant from American politics.
Renegade Futurist 2009
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Young friends I have met in Afghanistan, faced with pervasive everyday precarity I cannot easily imagine, have expressed this idea in a YouTube video, which utterly takes my breath away.
Kathy Kelly: Staying Human: Preparing to Sail to Gaza Kathy Kelly 2011
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Young friends I have met in Afghanistan, faced with pervasive everyday precarity I cannot easily imagine, have expressed this idea in a YouTube video, which utterly takes my breath away.
Kathy Kelly: Staying Human: Preparing to Sail to Gaza Kathy Kelly 2011
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Young friends I have met in Afghanistan, faced with pervasive everyday precarity I cannot easily imagine, have expressed this idea in a YouTube video, which utterly takes my breath away.
Kathy Kelly: Staying Human: Preparing to Sail to Gaza Kathy Kelly 2011
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Young friends I have met in Afghanistan, faced with pervasive everyday precarity I cannot easily imagine, have expressed this idea in a YouTube video, which utterly takes my breath away.
Kathy Kelly: Staying Human: Preparing to Sail to Gaza Kathy Kelly 2011
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There are aesthetic and cultural strategies behind the Zapatista solidarity, the blockades of the G8/IMF/WTO, the No Border network, the pan-European precarity campaigns.
James Warren: This Week in Magazines: A Big Shot Journalist Vents at Being Lied to 20 Years Ago 2009
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Precarity means living in a state of insecurity, worry or stress; it means there is no back-up plan.
I will never regret the time I spent with my children, but society is punishing me for it in my 60s | Louise Ihlein Louise Ihlein 2022
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