Description: Entrepreneurial Selves is an ethnography of neoliberalism. Bridging political economy and affect studies, Carla Freeman turns a spotlight on the entrepreneur, a figure saluted across the globe as the very embodiment of neoliberalism. Steeped in more than a decade of ethnography on the emergent entrepreneurial middle class of Barbados, she finds dramatic reworkings of selfhood, intimacy, labor, and life amid the rumbling effects of political-economic restructuring. She shows us that the deja vu of neoliberalism, the global hailing of entrepreneurial flexibility and its concomitant project of self-making, can only be grasped through the thickness of cultural specificity where its costs and pleasures are unevenly felt. Freeman theorizes postcolonial neoliberalism by reimagining the Caribbean cultural model of 'reputation-respectability.' This remarkable book will allow readers to see how the material social practices formerly associated with resistance to capitalism (reputation) are being mobilized in ways that sustain neoliberal precepts and, in so doing, re-map class, race, and gender through a new emotional economy.
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EAN: 9780822357926
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Book Title: Entrepreneurial Selves: Neoliberal Respectability
Item Length: 23.1 cm
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Name: Entrepreneurial Selves: Neoliberal Respectability and the Making of a Caribbean Middle Class
Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Item Height: 229 mm
Subject: Zoology, Anthropology
Publication Year: 2014
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 494 g
Author: Carla Freeman
Item Width: 152 mm
Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
Format: Hardcover
