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Situations Vol. 19, No. 1 (2026)
Special Issue
Precarity as Critique
General Introduction
Vol.19, No. 1, 31 March 2026
This special issue consists of several papers presented at the 2025 conference, along with an additonal essay that speaks to the theme with compelling insights on a wide range of subjects: precarity occasioned by exclusion, by the violence of atomic boming and historical forgetting, by elite-centered development, and by marriage migration.
This special issue consists of several papers presented at the 2025 conference, along with an additonal essay that speaks to the theme with compelling insights on a wide range of subjects: precarity occasioned by exclusion, by the violence of atomic boming and historical forgetting, by elite-centered development, and by marriage migration.
Articles
Introduction: Precarity as Critique
Miseong Woo | Chih-Ming Wang
Anne Allison
2. Precarious Memory in the Post-Axial Age: The Structures of Feeling in Human Rights Museums
John Nguyet Erni
3. The Ontological Turn in Later Life: Reframing Successful Aging in Taiwan
Shao-hua Liu
4. Precarious by Design: Environmental Injustice and Institutional Functioning in India
Sourish Jha
5. Mirror Surfaces: Duplicity in Park Chan-wook's Decision to Leave
Sara Son