Precarity and international relations

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Precarity and the Nexus of Governmentality and Sovereignty -- Chapter 3: Biopolitics of Precarity -- Chapter 4: Notes on Abandonement -- Chapter 5: The Internationalization of Precarity? -- Chapter 6: Irregular Labor and the 'Life of the State' -- Chapter 7: Urban Informality and Precarity in the Modern International -- Chapter 8: Financing Precarity -- Chapter 9: Within the Factory of Mobility -- Chapter 10: Fashioning and Contesting Precariousness -- Chapter 11: Disability Counter-Communities -- Chapter 12: Perceptual Precarity and Butler's Ambivalent Social Bond -- Chapter 13: Precarity and the Struggle against Alienated Work -- Chapter 14: Conclusion.

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Praise for Precarity and International Relations -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- Prologue -- Precarity and Sovereignty -- Precarity and Solidarities -- Precarity and Work -- References -- Part I Precarity and Sovereignty -- 2 Notes on Abandonment -- Works Cited -- 3 The Global Subject of Precarity -- Introduction1 -- Precarity as a Liberal Analytic -- Ontological Precariousness: A Liberal Backstop? -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- 4 Precarity at the Nexus of Governmentality and Sovereignty: Entangled Fields of Power and Political Subjectivities -- Precarities -- Precarity Across Space -- Precarity Over Time -- Explaining Precarity -- Governmentality and Conceptualizations of Power and Resistance -- Questioning the Finality of Sovereign Power -- Transformative Processes and Dual Expressions of Power -- Precarity and Diverse Subjectivities -- Everyday Subjects and Shades of Objectifying Precarity -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II Precarity and Solidarities -- 5 Irregular Labour and the 'Life of the State': Precarity, Citizenship, and Sovereignty in Decolonizing Africa -- Introduction -- The Political Relations of Force -- Class and Nation in Decolonizing Africa -- Internationalizing the Politics of Precarity? -- Conclusion -- References -- 6 Struggling with Precarity: From 'More Jobs' to Post-work Politics -- Fordism as Exception, Precarity as Norm -- Post-Fordist Precarity: Between Discipline and Pleasure -- A Post-work Approach to Precarity -- References -- 7 Disability Counter-Communities: Resisting Precarity with Friendship -- Introduction -- The Ethic of Responsibility: Precarity -- Community and Society -- The Welfare Reform as Good Governance -- Countering Responsibilization: (A New) Collectivity -- Precarity and Resistance: Current Disability Narratives.