Allison Precarious Japan

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7724-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Reihe: Chronicles of the New World Encounter

Precarious Japany reflects on how the Japanese are experiencing insecurity in the contemporary era of nagging recession, irregular labor, nuclear contamination, and a shrinking overall population with more and more elderly.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Allison, Anne

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

1. Pain of Life 1

2. From Lifelong to Liquid Japan 21

3. Ordinary Refugeeism: Poverty, Precarity, Youth 43

4. Home and Hope 77

5. The Social Body–In Life and Death 122

6. Cultivating Fields From the Edges 166

7. In the Mud 180

Notes 207

References 219

Index 231

Über Autor(innen)

Anne Allison is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. She is the author of Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination; Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan; and Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club and a coeditor of the journal Cultural Anthropology.