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work_bwvb4eoxorfllbeiusucujjh3a	Carl-Ulrik Schierup	Re-imagineering the Common in Precarious Times	2018	18	.pdf	application/pdf	8943	826	47	On the background of scenarios of a present, of environmental disasters, social polarisation, retrograde democracy, radical nationalism and antagonistic struggles, Karl Polanyi's (2001 [1944]) work The Great Transformation has gained contemporary relevance Transposed into a generic concept 'RC' embodies transformative movements of civil society for democracy, equity and emancipation of a composite twenty-first century precariat, rallying constituencies from across ethno-racially divided South, as well as their driving political forces, are shifting in character, compared to precarious conditions of the past; thus positing demands for 'flexibility' in terms of diminishing labour and social rights, excessive informalisation, contingent employment and 'uncivil society' as a discursive and political predicament; a state of estrangement conditioning the agency of precariat movements in general, and contestative RCs in particular, in a world where civil rights (of expression, assemblage, protest rallies, etc.) are Book Migration, Citizenship and the European Welfare State (Oxford University Press, 2006)	./cache/work_bwvb4eoxorfllbeiusucujjh3a.pdf	./txt/work_bwvb4eoxorfllbeiusucujjh3a.txt