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Informationen zum Autor 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) Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer G. Correa, Correa Jennifer G., Thomas, James M. Thomas, Thomas James M.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2016
• EAN: 9781783483891
• ISBN: 978-1-78348-389-1
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Social groups, Social discrimination & inequality, Sociology: work & labour, Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Sociology: work and labour, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Social discrimination and social justice, Social groups, communities and identities