Precarious Japan

Name: Precarious Japan
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ISBN: 9780822355625

ISBN-10: 0822355620

ISBN-13: 9780822355625

Edition: 2013

Authors: Anne Allison

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In an era of irregular labor, nagging recession, nuclear contamination, and a shrinking population, Japan is facing precarious times. How the Japanese experience insecurity in their daily and social lives is the subject of Precarious Japan. Tacking between the structural conditions of socioeconomic life and the ways people are making do, or not, Anne Allison chronicles the loss of home affecting many Japanese, not only in the literal sense but also in the figurative sense of not belonging. Until the collapse of Japan's economic bubble in 1991, lifelong employment and a secure income were within reach of most Japanese men, enabling them to maintain their families in a comfortable…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 11/22/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English

Anne Allison is the Robert O. Keohane Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Professor of Women's Studies at Duke University.



Acknowledgments



Pain of Life



From Lifelong to Liquid Japan



Ordinary Refugeeism: Poverty, Precarity, Youth



Home and Hope



The Social Body-In Life and Death



Cultivating Fields from the Edges



In the Mud


Notes


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Index