Citation

Agathangelou AM. Globalizations 2019; 16(4): 541-558.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019)

DOI

10.1080/14747731.2018.1464686

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Many see precarity and precariousness as a 'global condition', others do not. Most of these authors share the idea that populations suffer from economic displacements and ought to be at the forefront of states' economic and labor policy agendas. However, these same authors, from different disciplines, presume an equivalency in precarity, missing that many peoples are racially exposed to injury, violence, and death. This article problematizes some of these disciplinarian notions and logics and argues that raciality is a global structure and a set of institutions of ordering and differencing through which the state resolves its contradictory demands by 'checking claims' about justice. Second, this article expands an analytics about subjectification and biofinancialization by reading how suicide and Greece are not projects but rather sites that expose the works of global raciality which aids, through the logics of precarity and the logics of 'obliteration,' the state's work for global capital. © 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Language: en

Keywords

suicide; Greece; global capital; biofinancialization; Global raciality; precarity