Event Highlights: Precarity For All—On the Constitution of Unfreedom in 21st-Century Liberal Democracies
In this lecture, based on her latest book Capitalism on Edge. How Fighting Precarity Can Achieve Radical Change Without Crisis or Utopia (Columbia University Press, 2020), Albena Azmanova, Associate Professor of Social Thought at the University of Kent’s Brussels School of International Studies, makes the case that it is precarity, not inequality, that is the main driver of discontent in modern societies. She offers a radical alternative to traditional anti-capitalist narratives, which place class conflict at the center of their critique. Responses are offered by Vivien A. Schmidt, Professor of International Relations and Political Science, and Daniela Caruso, Professor of Law, both at Boston University.