James M. Thomas, Jennifer G. Correa

Affective Labour

(Dis) assembling Distance and Difference

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A critical examination of affective labour based on ethnographic fieldwork. It traces the centrality of affective labor in enabling and constraining prevailing norms and practices of race, citizenship, class, gender, and sexuality across multiple spatial contexts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781783483891
• ISBN-10: 178348389X
• Artikelnr.: 42808531

Autorenporträt

James M. Thomas is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Mississippi. His research has been featured in international, peer-reviewed journals including Ethnic and Racial Studies, Ethnicities, and Ethnography. His first monograph is entitled Working to Laugh: Assembling Race and Heteronormativity in an American Stand-Up Comedy Club (Lexington, 2014)

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Difference, Distance, and Affective Labour
1. The Production of Good Times in Urban Nightlife
2. An Economy of Fear on the U.S. - Mexico Border
3. Diversity Regimes and Affective Labor in Higher Education
4. Affective Labour from Above and Below
5. Affective Labour and World Building: Toward a Theory of Affect for Radical Change
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index