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After Work : Japanese Silver Backpackers in Malaysia. 赤藤詩織著 マレーシアにおける日本人のシルバー・バックパッカー
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| 著者・編者 | Shakuto, Shiori, |
|---|---|
| 出版社 | (U. Pennsylvania Pr., US) |
| 出版年月 | 2025.01 |
| ページ数 | 224 pp. |
| 言語 | ENG |
| ニュース番号 | ＜742-191 742-487＞ |
解説
An ethnography of "silver backpackers" that offers a feminist perspective on what makes a good retirement in contemporary societies
The moniker "silver backpackers" refers to Japanese couples who, in their mid-fifties to seventies, move to Malaysia to enjoy their retirement. Recent scholarship on Japan has revealed how the gendered division of labor impacts the lives of middle-class workers and their families. But how do cultural values live on-or change-when these professionals retire from work, move on from identities built through salaried careers, and embark on a new phase of life? After Work takes up this question to focus on what comes after work, and in the process, expands our understanding of aging, gender, migration, and the future of work.
Based on fifteen months of fieldwork in Kuala Lumpur and employing a transnational feminist framework, After Work investigates moments of difference in the experiences of older women and men to examine patriarchal conversations that dominate ideas about contemporary retirement. Shiori Shakuto argues that anxiety around self and belonging in retirement are instigated by the capitalist labor regime and the discourse of successful aging, both of which devalue nonremunerated activities conducted at home. What is needed instead, she contends, is a re-valuation of key domestic activities-from caring for children to pursuing individual hobbies-so that "life" can be appreciated in its entirety.
Shakuto also takes into account the fact that this transnational retirement is set in Malaysia-a nation that Japan occupied during World War II and thereafter subject to decades of economic investment and resource exploitation by Japanese corporations. Highlighting how historical, cultural, and racialized complexities entangle with intimate relations in increasingly connected Asian countries while simultaneously acknowledging how the boundaries between work and life blur ever more in contemporary society, After Work complicates our perceptions of aging and a "good" retirement as well as our understandings of gender, migration, and the future of work as we know it.