After Work is a compelling account of Japanese retirees who move to Malaysia as “silver backpackers,” where they seek to achieve a “good” retirement. Set against contemporary inter-Asian migration, After Work offers a feminist perspective on what makes a good retirement when the boundaries between work and life are blurred.

Highlighting the ways in which racialization, power, and the legacy of colonialism affect the procurement and transmission of secret knowledge in West Africa and beyond, Landry demonstrates how, paradoxically, secrecy is critically important to Vodún's global expansion.