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.
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
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