Living with Precariousness

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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 Precariousness explores 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.

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 Screen Tourism and Affective Landscapes: The Real, the Virtual, and the Cinematic (co-editor, 2022), Spectral Spaces and Hauntings: The Affects of Absence (2017) and Violating Time: History, Memory, and Nostalgia in Cinema (2012). Her areas of research include cultural memory, spaces of spectrality and imagination, fandom and popular culture. 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). Her research centres on the intersections between technologies and societies, and includes work on diasporas, social imaginaries and the digital in China and Southeast Asia.