Living with Precariousness

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).

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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