Living with Precariousness

Name: Living with Precariousness
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9780755639298
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Living with Precariousness examines the widespread experience of precariousness in modern life through diverse case studies. It explores precarious existences on individual, collective, and structural levels, covering issues from asylum seekers and the tiny house movement to climate change and chronic illness. The book highlights how connections with various agents, human and non-human, both create risk and enable endurance in precarious conditions.
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Format: Hardback

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Living with Precariousness

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Ideal for readers interested in social sciences, contemporary societal challenges, and multidisciplinary approaches to understanding vulnerability and resilience. Suitable for students, academics, and those concerned with social justice and human rights.

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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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Praised as a significant contribution to the study of precarity, this volume is lauded for its vivid depiction of the visceral nature of precariousness. Professor Meaghan Morris commends its exploration of shared vulnerabilities across diverse situations and how people develop strategies to live amid uncertainty. The Hon. Michael Kirby notes its timely and measured assessment of contemporary global challenges, emphasising that the outlook is not entirely bleak.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780755639298

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 13 July 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Illustration: 20 bw illus

Contributors:

Edited by Dr Christina Lee
Edited by Susan Leong

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 164.0mm

Height: 236.0mm

Weight: 600g

Pages: 304

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About the Author

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).