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Precarious Japan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Allison, Anne, 1950-
- Series:
- Chronicles of the New World Encounter
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Japan--Economic conditions--1989-.
- Japan--Social conditions--1989-.
- Local Subjects:
- Japan--Economic conditions--1989-.
- Japan--Social conditions--1989-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Precarious Japany reflects on how the Japanese are experiencing insecurity in the contemporary era of nagging recession, irregular labor, nuclear contamination, and a shrinking overall population with more and more elderly.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Pain of Life; Chapter 2. From Lifelong to Liquid Japan; Chapter 3. Ordinary Refugeeism: Poverty, Precarity, Youth; Chapter 4. Home and Hope; Chapter 5. The Social Body-In Life and Death; Chapter 6. Cultivating Fields from the Edges; Chapter 7. In the Mud; Notes; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780822377245
- 0822377241
- OCLC:
- 1224278977
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