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“Precariousness and precarity are intersecting concepts. Lives are by definition precarious: they can be expunged at will or by accident; their persistence is in no sense guaranteed”

Book:Frames of War: When is Life Grievable?

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Frames of War: When is Life Grievable?

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Judith Butler

Judith Butler is a renowned philosopher, born on February 24, 1956. Her research focuses on issues of gender, identity, and power, having a profound impact on postmodernism and gender theory. more

“In other words, they appeal to the state for protection, but the state is precisely that from which they require protection. To be protected from violence by the nation-state is to be exposed to the violence wielded by the nation-state, so to rely on the nation-state for protection from violence is precisely to exchange one potential violence for another. There may, indeed, be few other choices.”

Life War Death Violence Nation State Precariousness Grievability Precarity

Book:Frames of War: When is Life Grievable?

Source: Frames of War: When is Life Grievable?

“Precarity designates that politically induced condition in which certain populations suffer from failing social and economic networks of support and become differentially exposed to injury, violence, and death.”

Life War Death Violence Precariousness Grievability Precarity

Book:Frames of War: When is Life Grievable?

Source: Frames of War: When is Life Grievable?

“After all, poor people are only as good as their last service to the masters of the system, and it is based on that last service that they get to have one more paycheck for just one more month of uncertainty.”

Labor Injustice Working Class Precariousness Precarity Povery

Author:Louis Yako

“There are districts in which the position of the rural population is that of a man standing permanently up to the neck in water, so that even a ripple is sufficient to drown him.”