Dialectical Anthropology is an international journal fostering open debates through peer-reviewed articles, research, and commentary across social sciences and humanities.
Provides a forum for scholars and activists working in Marxist and political-economic traditions.
Established in 1975 by Stanley Diamond, dedicated to the transformation of class society.
Promotes international dialogue from authors outside English-speaking countries.
Committed to collaborations beyond the traditional concerns of Western academics.
This special issue interrogates how the precaritization of labor affects the form and possibilities of contemporary work-based politics. It does so in reference to ethnographic research conducted in a wide variety of contexts that consider how the experience of precarity vary between the Global North and South. It demonstrates strategies, histories, and experiences from South, East, and Central Asia, as well as the Middle East, Europe, and Latin America in order to analyze how labor politics are embedded in daily life and what it means to live with risk, resistance, aspiration, bureaucracy, morality, class conflict, and the state.