The Promise of Diversity
Autor: | Nicolas Wasser |
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EAN: | 9783839437544 |
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Sprache: | Englisch |
Produktart: | eBook |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 06.02.2017 |
Untertitel: | How Brazilian Brand Capitalism Affects Precarious Identities and Work |
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Schlagworte: | Brands Brazil Capitalism Cultural Sociology Gender Studies LGBT Latin America Minorities Neo-Liberalism Postcolonialism Precarity Racial Identities Sales Employees Sexual Identities Social Ineq Sociology Sociology of Work and Industry |
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Nicolas Wasser critically examines how sexual and racial identities are currently being articulated through capitalist brands and labor. On the basis of an ethnographic case study about a Brazilian fashion enterprise, he shows how young - lesbian, gay and black - sales employees align themselves with the ambivalent promises put forward by diversity management. Their affective labor, the study argues, is at the center of new and globally unfolding regimes of the precarious. Readers will thus find a rich sociological account from the Global South on how neoliberal logics of self-optimization both traverse and fuel the aspirations of the minoritized.
Nicolas Wasser (PhD UFRJ/Brazil) is a member of the Graduiertenkolleg Gender Studies at the University of Basel. His research focuses on affective labor, LGBT issues, precarity, and difference in Latin America.