Precarious Japan (chronicles Of The New World Encounter)
by Anne Allison /
2013 / English / PDF
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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
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 ofPrecarious Japan
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 middle-class lifestyle. Now, as fewer and fewer
people are able to find full-time work, hope turns to
hopelessness and security gives way to a pervasive unease. Yet
some Japanese are getting by, partly by reconceiving notions of
home, family, and togetherness.
.
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 middle-class lifestyle. Now, as fewer and fewer
people are able to find full-time work, hope turns to
hopelessness and security gives way to a pervasive unease. Yet
some Japanese are getting by, partly by reconceiving notions of
home, family, and togetherness.