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The promise of diversity : how Brazilian brand capitalism affects precarious identities and work /

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 wit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wasser, Nikolaus (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcipt Verlag, 2017.
Colección:Postcolonial studies ; Bd. 29.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (296 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-296).
ISBN:9783839437544
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