Living with Precariousness

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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Precariousness has become a defining experience in contemporary society, as an inescapable condition and state of being. Living with Precariousness presents a spectrum of timely case studies that explore precarious existences – at individual, collective and structural levels, and as manifested through space and the body. These range from the plight of asylum seekers, to the tiny house movement as a response to affordable housing crises; from the global impacts of climate change, to the daily challenges of living with a chronic illness. This multidisciplinary book illustrates the pervasiveness of precarity, but furthermore shows how those entanglements with other agents, human or otherwise, that put us at risk are also the connections that make living with (and through) precariousness endurable.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-01-22
Mått:150 x 232 x 16 mm
Vikt:460 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9780755639335

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Christina Lee is a Senior Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies at Curtin University, Australia. She is the author of Screening Generation X: The Politics and Popular Memory of Youth in Contemporary Cinema (2010), and editor of books including Spectral Spaces and Hauntings: The Affects of Absence (2017) and Violating Time: History, Memory, and Nostalgia in Cinema (2012).Susan Leong is Honorary Senior Fellow at Edith Cowan University, Australia. She is the author of Global Internet Governance: Influences from Malaysia and Singapore (2020), China’s Digital Presence in the Asia-Pacific: Culture, Technology and Platforms (2020), and New Media and the Nation in Malaysia: Malaysianet (2014).

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Represents a significant contribution to the study of precarity ... the dedication of the book’s authors to depicting the visceral nature of precariousness in this volume is invaluable.

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DedicationTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsForeword by Anne AllisonLiving with PrecariousnessChristina Lee and Susan Leong Part I: Precarious Conditions1. Banal PrecariousnessSusan Leong2. A Life for a Voice: The Work of Journalist James W. Foley through the Eyes of his FamilyDiane Foley 3. Teaching for Buoyancy in the Pre-carious Present for an Evitable FutureJulian C. H. Lee, Anna Branford, Sam Carroll-Bell, Aya Ono and Kaye Quek4. ‘Will there be a day that I say I am an equal human being?’ Living with the Compounding Precarity of Seeking Asylum in Australia Salem Askari and Caroline FleayPart II: Precarious Spaces5. Haunted Futures: (Making) Home in the Ghost City of Ordos Kangbashi Christina Lee 6. Upgrading Downsizing: Tiny Houses as a Response to PrecarityMadeleine Esch7. Thinking Climate Through PrecarityBen Beitler8. Precarity in a Time of Fire and PandemicJulie Macken and Sonia M. TascónPart III: Precarious Bodies9. The Road to AsylumAlice Driver10. Grieve-able Lives: Precarity in Residential Aged CareHelen Fordham11. The Precarious Lives of Slavery SurvivorsAlicia Rana and Kevin Bales12. 216 Westbound: A Topography of Latent FearShona Illingworth, John Tulloch and Caterina Albano13. Precarious States: Small Explosions in the Time of COVID-19Alexandra HalkiasList of ContributorsBibliographyIndex