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Mediating the global : expatria's forms and consequences in Kathmandu /
Transnational business people, international aid workers, and diplomats are all actors on the international stage working for organizations and groups often scrutinized by the public eye. But the very lives of these global middlemen and women are relatively unstudied. Mediating the global takes up t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
[2013]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : expatria in Nepal
- Conjunctures of mediations : the historical logics of expatriate Nepal
- Families that fail : the mechanisms and labor of productivity
- Market basket economics : the practice of paperwork and shopping like an expatriate
- The protean expatriate : flexibility and the modern worker
- Saving business from culture : cross-cultural training and multicultural performances
- Living in expatria : institutions and the mobile community
- Conclusion : Kathmandu's twenty-first-century expatria.