Living with Precariousness / edited by Christina Lee and Susan Leong.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lee, Christina, editor.

Leong, Susan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic security--Social aspects.

Economic security.

Human security--Social aspects.

Human security.

Precarious employment--Social aspects.

Precarious employment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2023.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Dedication Table of Contents Acknowledgements Foreword by Anne Allison Living with Precariousness Christina Lee and Susan Leong Part I: Precarious Conditions 1. Banal Precariousness Susan Leong 2. A Life for a Voice: The Work of Journalist James W. Foley through the Eyes of his Family Diane Foley 3. Teaching for Buoyancy in the Pre-carious Present for an Evitable Future Julian C. H. Lee, Anna Branford, Sam Carroll-Bell, Aya Ono and Kaye Quek 4. '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 Fleay Part II: Precarious Spaces 5. Haunted Futures: (Making) Home in the Ghost City of Ordos Kangbashi Christina Lee 6. Upgrading Downsizing: Tiny Houses as a Response to Precarity Madeleine Esch 7. Thinking Climate Through Precarity Ben Beitler 8. Precarity in a Time of Fire and Pandemic Julie Macken and Sonia M. Tascón Part III: Precarious Bodies 9. The Road to Asylum Alice Driver 10. Grieve-able Lives: Precarity in Residential Aged Care Helen Fordham 11. The Precarious Lives of Slavery Survivors Alicia Rana and Kevin Bales 12. 216 Westbound: A Topography of Latent Fear Shona Illingworth, John Tulloch and Caterina Albano 13. Precarious States: Small Explosions in the Time of COVID-19 Alexandra Halkias List of Contributors Bibliography Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780755639328

0755639324

9780755639304

0755639308

9780755639311

0755639316

OCLC:

1377819675