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Book Title
This Restless Life
Publication Name
This Restless Life : Churning Through Love, Work and Travel
Title
This Restless Life
Author
Brigid Delaney
Format
Trade Paperback
EAN
9780522855968
ISBN
9780522855968
Publisher
Melbourne University Publishing
Genre
Society & Culture
Topic
Social Sciences
Release Year
2009
Release Date
01/08/2009
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
AU
Item Height
0.9in
Item Length
9.2in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
13.9 Oz
Publication Year
2009
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
320 Pages

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We often live in transit, shifting between jobs, cities and countries, trying to build communities in a virtual world, but longing - maybe before dropping off to sleep at night - for some stronger connection. The savage playground of speed dating. High-risk, low-loyalty workplaces, scattered around the world. Friendships and love affairs conducted through technology. Globalisation and the long boom have changed the way young people love, work and travel. In This Restless Life , journalist Brigid Delaney looks at the impact that hyper-mobility and the excesses of consumer culture have had on the restless generation. She hears stories from young Australians in the departure lounges of outer London airports, at parties in Rome and Sydney, in the cafés of Berlin and Paris. They feel 'nation-stateless', adrift. Their affluence in the new economy has come at a cost. Having lived the restless life herself - fifteen cities over the past fifteen years - Delaney laments the loss of the things that for previous generations held life together, like romantic love, full-time permanent work and real-world communities. But just as the pace of the new economy changed us into restless human beings, might the global financial crisis provide this generation with an opportunity to slow down and reassess how it might live?

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Melbourne University Publishing
ISBN-10
0522855962
ISBN-13
9780522855968
eBay Product ID (ePID)
71650004

Product Key Features

Author
Brigid Delaney
Publication Name
This Restless Life : Churning Through Love, Work and Travel
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
320 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
13.9 Oz

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Reviews
"Echoing an Alain de Botton investigation . . . Delaney's excavation into 'project self'-and the churning it entails-is an entertaining and insightful read."  -Sun Herald, "Echoing an Alain de Botton investigation . . . Delaney's excavation into 'project self''--and the churning it entails--is an entertaining and insightful read." -- Sun Herald, "Echoing an Alain de Botton investigation . . . Delaney's excavation into 'project self'-and the churning it entails-is an entertaining and insightful read." - Sun Herald, "Echoing an Alain de Botton investigation . . . Delaney's excavation into 'project self'—and the churning it entails—is an entertaining and insightful read."  — Sun Herald, "Echoing an Alain de Botton investigation . . . Delaney's excavation into 'project self'--and the churning it entails--is an entertaining and insightful read."  -- Sun Herald
Copyright Date
2009
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Sociology / General, Personal Memoirs, Sociology / Marriage & Family, Sociology / Urban
Dewey Decimal
302.509051
Dewey Edition
22
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Social Science

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