... narrative Deckard Sherae communal support agency Jesmyn Ward Climate Crisis: Ecocriticism Precarity Vulnerability Hurricane Katrina Salvage the Bones In Jesmyn Ward’s 2011 novel Salvage the Bones, an impending storm threatens to hit the Gulf Coast of Louisiana, where we meet Esch...

... satirical fiction, this chapter argues that Miss Lonelyhearts stages a conflict between absent yet massively needed political responses to socio-economic precarity and an intratextual world whose ‘superrealist’ absurdity revolves around the compassionate, male advice columnist Miss...

...This chapter connects the industrial pressures within acting culture, such as the scarcity of professional work and economic precarity between acting jobs, with the fickle cruelty of the casting process. Auditions are positioned as a highly specialized screen performance style, rather than...

...Part three discusses Hollywood’s representation of working practices in Silicon Valley. Its first chapter highlights their insistence that Silicon Valley’s utopian claims mask a dystopian working environment that condemns its workers to neo-feudal precarity. It places considerable emphasis...

... on Jacques Rancière’s discussions of duration in Tarr’s work, while engaging critically with Rancière’s apparent neglect of questions of animal labour. While bearing witness to modes of exhaustion and precarity that reach across human and animal worlds, The Turin Horse is a quietly...

... responsibility to protect Sudan UNMIS United Nations Mission in Sudan cordon and search operations attentiveness reciprocity Sen Amartya values fear trauma sexual exploitation and or abuse Liberia MacKinnon Catherine precarity women's peace movement displaced persons mourning consent...

... probabilities truth Bloom Harold genre Durkheim Émile Affect Paranoia Precarity Methodolgy Stewart Kathleen Critical methods Over the past decade there has been a growing chorus of discontent with what are perceived to be the suspicious reflexes of critical methods. The common charge is that critique...

...Chapter 3 traces the progressive alignment of portability with precarity from the late 1920s to the 1940s against a backdrop of political instability. The unfolding crisis of mass displacement across Europe served to reduce earlier literary fantasies of travelling light to nightmarish visions...

... for thinking through the rapport between abandonment and contemporary issues of precarity, a more recent term that has played a decisive role in mass demonstrations against forms of inequality and injustice, the recomposition of capital, transformations in the nature of work and labor, and contemporary forms...

...’ novel ‘the West’ Butler Judith ‘deficit’ human animal relations ‘humanising’ Pedwell Caroline Billington Josie Haraway Donna Karpf Anne Binaries Critical Technology Animal studies Service labour Science fiction Posthumanism Precarity Medical humanities In this book, I have sought...

...This chapter seeks to square accounts of Jacques Audiard as a fundamentally conservative director with those that see him as a progressive one who daringly reinvents gender roles by suggesting that these are two sides of the same neoliberal coin. Confronted with their precarity and moving...

... cohabitation Ingala E Athanasiou A Tzelepis E speech act universal universality translation Honig B agency dispossession precarity Locke J Fanon F Aloni U Hanson E mourning queer radical equality Freud S nonviolence Ertür B Brown W Appearance Dispossession Grievability Jettisoned...

... of precarization and deprofessionalization, we want people to address their grievances and to do so in a democratic way. Radical democratic theory, it suggests, should be particularly apt at addressing this problem - yet it cannot. In its turn towards the political, radical democracy has become too ‘socially...

..., professionals and semi-professionals – in a common struggle against alienation. At the same time, we are also in a better place to grasp the challenges that such a struggle would involve. Today, people from many different social milieus are precarized, and some of these are also alienated. Efforts to unite...