Living with precariousness. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Christina Lee and Susan Leong.
• Editors: Lee, Christina, 1976-; Leong, Susan (Susan Mee Mee)
• Contents: DedicationTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword by Anne Allison Living with PrecariousnessChristina Lee and Susan Leong Part I: Precarious Conditions1. 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 Spaces5. 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 Bodies9. The Road to Asylum Alice Driver 10. Grieve-able Lives: Precarity in Residential Aged Care Helen Fordham 11. The Precarious Lives of Slavery SurvivorsAlicia Rana and Kevin Bales12. 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 ContributorsBibliography Index.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (304 pages), illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 339.46; Economic security -- Social aspects; Precarious employment -- Social aspects; Human security -- Social aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780755639304; 9780755639311
• Related ISBNs: 9780755639298
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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