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aporia

the need described above is intensified by an aporia that occurs whenever someone tries to explain the most blatant contradiction that characterises austerity-and-crisis Greece

—p.157 Back to Piraeus: Precarity for All! (145) by Carolin Philipp, Dimitris Parsanoglou
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the precariat and post-Fordism

Since the emergence of precarity as "the central organising platform for a series of social struggles that spread across the space of Europe," there has been an effort, particularly by prearious activists, to build a subject that could be considered as the dominant form of the contemporary (post-Fo…

—p.151 Back to Piraeus: Precarity for All! (145) by Carolin Philipp, Dimitris Parsanoglou
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vitiate

These factors had a vitiating effect on the BDLB, which eventually saw a slow dismantling of the protective schemes for workers.

why do i always think this word means the opposite.

—p.133 Decoding the Transition in the Ports of Mumbai (129) by Johnson Abhishek Minz
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the "locking in" of economies

Global value chains (GVCs) have reconfigured production processes over numerous geographies of the globe, leading to an international division of the labor process. This division has been congruent tot he plot of the expansion of transnational corporations, posited within the logic of capitalism, w…

—p.129 Decoding the Transition in the Ports of Mumbai (129) by Johnson Abhishek Minz