What is the impact of precariousness on the quality of life and human agency?
Precariousness has become a defining experience for many in contemporary society, as an inescapable condition and state of being. Living with Precariousnessexplores the effects and affects of precariousness through critical dialogue with the vulnerabilities and uncertainties that are evident in current social, economic and political environments worldwide.
A spectrum of timely international case studies 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 a national housing crisis; 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 entangled connections with other human and non-human agents that put us at risk are also the connections which make living with (and through) precariousness endurable.
Author(s): Christina Lee; Susan Leong (editors)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 303
City: London
Cover
Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Foreword Anne Allison
Introduction: Living with Precariousness Christina Lee and Susan Leong
Part 1 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 2 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 3 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-19Alexandra Halkias
Coda Susan Leong and Christina Lee
Bibliography
Index
