Precarious Japan

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." "Precarious Japan"y 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. ""Precarious Japan" is a model of new modes of conceptualizing sociocultural theory. Here the theory is sober, mature, aspirational, hopeful, gracious. It pushes up against the limits of thinking categorically, of thinking that lived phenomena simply, magically, derive their force from the categorical--from identities, borders, inclusions and exclusions, ideals writ large. It will be important to scholars trying to get a better handle on what is going on in the historical present."--Kathleen Stewart, author of "Ordinary Affects" Zusammenfassung 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.

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*Precarious Japan*y 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.

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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