Beyond the edges of the map: The ghost city of Ordos Kangbashi - Christina Lee, Senior Lecturer, Curtin University The ghost city phenomenon in China first came to international attention in 2009 in an Al Jazeera report. A combination of different factors, including the ways in which state planning works and the global financial crisis, … Continue reading Precarious Times: Precarious Spaces
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Precarious Times: Banal Precarity
The symposium opened with a panel on Banal Precariousness. Anne Allison, Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University, spoke on "Cleaning up dead remains in times of living/dying all alone: social singlification in Japan", building on her book, Precarious Japan. As demographic changes happen in Japan, many older people have become worried about dying alone rather … Continue reading Precarious Times: Banal Precarity