Isabell Lorey. <i>State of Insecurity: Government of the Precarious</i>

Bower, Kathrin M.

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“…Social and political conditions are important here because this uncertainty derives in large part from the absence of adequate protections for, and safeguards of, the means required to guarantee one's well-being. Those living in a state of precarity are balancing on a thin line that holds them within the sphere of persons who are seen as valuable contributors to society but risk losing this position through even a small change in their circumstances (Thomas, 2008;Lorey, 2015). Precarity thus expresses itself as a condition of social and economic instability and unsafety that puts people at risk of failing to meet even their fundamental needs.…”

Section: Vulnerability As Frailtymentioning

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Balancing words, balancing lives: framing vulnerability in times of crisis

Ruiter

Dekking

Leget

et al. 2024

International Journal of Care and Caring

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Words matter, especially in times of crisis. This article analyses the complexities of political discourse on vulnerability by considering the case of the Dutch COVID-19 response. Our study finds that the framing of vulnerability as a predetermined and naturalised condition, linked to old age and pre-existing medical conditions, draws attention away from aspects of precarisation tied to economic position, social class, cultural background and living conditions. This rhetorical strategy can be understood as a practice of de-responsibilisation through which attention is rhetorically diverted from the way(s) in which political authorities are implicated in producing, exacerbating or failing to mitigate vulnerabilities.

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Section: Vulnerability As Frailtymentioning

confidence: 99%

Balancing words, balancing lives: framing vulnerability in times of crisis

Ruiter

Dekking

Leget

et al. 2024

International Journal of Care and Caring

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“…Stewart‐Robertson (2022) explicitly extended Butler's (2009) conceptualization of precarity into information practices, noting that information science must engage with precarity to “address various situations and causes of inequity, inequality, marginalization and dehumanization at multiple levels” (p. 1354). Stewart‐Robertson also drew from Lorey (2015) to describe precarization as the ways that “states of precarity become aspects of the everyday lives of larger groups of the population” (p. 1356). Information practices are informed by, and in turn shape, social, political, economic, and cultural contexts.…”

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Information precarity and the agentic practices of marginalized communities: Puerto Rican activists addressing the crisis before, during, and after Hurricane Maria

Vasquez

Oltmann

2023

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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In this study, we propose that information precarity leads to and perpetuates information marginalization; communities then engage with marginalization with various types of proactive information practices. For this project, we explore how Puerto Ricans activists responded to information precarity before, during, and after Hurricane Maria. We interviewed activists about their experiences navigating the local and federal institutional environment and their information practices. We show that although Puerto Rico suffered catastrophic damage after Hurricane Maria, its already‐weakened infrastructure, coupled with fiscal instability, had created a state of information precarity for many people before the hurricane hit. We also show how Puerto Rican activists engaged in solidarity‐based, anti‐colonial, and anti‐neoliberal information activities. While previous models argue that people respond to marginalization with defensive/protective behavior, we propose people go beyond just responding; they enact their agency, resourcefulness, collective interests, and locally based knowledge to engage in proactive and subversive information practices. We conclude that marginalized actors who are critical of the structures that marginalize them transform their state of precarity into an alternative space where they can achieve their goals.

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“…While precariousness is shared, it is not the same for all. Young people's control over their destinies is affected by poverty, unequal access to education and health systems, the globalization of capitalist production, the rise of information technologies, the flexible labor arrangements that emerge along with these trends, and gender-, sexuality-, and race-based discrimination, which, taken together, are also referred to as "precarity" (Lorey 2015). 3 Precariousness thus refers to the condition of vulnerability shared by youth, while precarity refers to the regulatory, labor, welfare, education and health structures that shape these vulnerabilities Han 2018).…”

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“…Although increased access to education, and images that they view online fuel dreams for a better future, the precariousness of their everyday lives led the youth we spoke with to doubt if their aspirations could really be achieved (see also Butler 2004b;Lorey 2015). Many young people inhabit a commercially mediated "nowhere place" between a devalued local past and an unreachable future (Liechty 2003).…”

Section: Navigating Precaritymentioning

confidence: 99%

Chemical Youth

Hardon¹

2021

Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty

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Isabell Lorey. State of Insecurity: Government of the Precarious

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Balancing words, balancing lives: framing vulnerability in times of crisis

Balancing words, balancing lives: framing vulnerability in times of crisis

Information precarity and the agentic practices of marginalized communities: Puerto Rican activists addressing the crisis before, during, and after Hurricane Maria

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