Living with Precariousness

Dr Christina Lee, Susan Leong (Herausgeber)

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304 Seiten

2026
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Verlag)
978-0-7556-3933-5 (ISBN)

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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.

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).

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

Erscheinungsdatum	05.08.2023
Zusatzinfo	20 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	0-7556-3933-2 / 0755639332
ISBN-13	978-0-7556-3933-5 / 9780755639335
Zustand	Neuware