This restless life : churning through love, work and play / Brigid Delaney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Delaney, Brigid.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quality of life.

Life skills.

Life.

Physical Description:

xi, 276 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Publishing, 2009.

Summary:

We often live in transit, shifting between jobs, cities and countries, trying to build communities in a virtual world, but longing - maybe before dropping off to sleep at night - for some stronger connection. The savage playground of speed dating. High-risk, low-loyalty workplaces, scattered around the world. Friendships and love affairs conducted through technology. Globalisation and the long boom have changed the way young people love, work and travel. In This Restless Life, journalist Brigid Delaney looks at the impact that hyper-mobility and the excesses of consumer culture have had on the restless generation. She hears stories from young Australians in the departure lounges of outer London airports, at parties in Rome and Sydney, in the cafés of Berlin and Paris. They feel 'nation-stateless', adrift. Their affluence in the new economy has come at a cost. Having lived the restless life herself - fifteen cities over the past fifteen years - Delaney laments the loss of the things that for previous generations held life together, like romantic love, full-time permanent work and real-world communities. But just as the pace of the new economy changed us into restless human beings, might the global financial crisis provide this generation with an opportunity to slow down and reassess how it might live?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-276).

ISBN:

9780522855968

0522855962

OCLC:

340641067