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Locating precarization: the state, livelihoods and the politics of precarity in contemporary Portugal

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This article explores the themes of precarity and precarization by looking at
specific historical conjunctures in the recent history of Portuguese capitalist
development, relevant because of their enduring influence in shaping the
mutual constitution of state-led projects of accumulation and development,
dominant waged regimes and emergent normative livelihood models and
projects. The broader aim is to locate and understand precarization as an
ongoing process limiting the options and conditions of ‘wage earning’, and
the kin-based, classed and generational structures of feeling through which
ordinary people imagine and aspire to be ‘livelihood earners’. It is argued
that addressing the dialectic between being a wage earner and a livelihood
earner is absolutely central to a deeper understanding of precarization and its
multiple manifestations.

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Articles publicats en revistes (Antropologia Social)

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Locating precarization: the state, livelihoods and the politics of precarity in contemporary Portugal