Entrepreneurial Selves: Neoliberal Respectability and the Making of a Caribbean

Description: Entrepreneurial Selves by Carla Freeman Steeped in more than a decade of ethnography on the emergent middle class of Barbados, this remarkable book turns a spotlight on the entrepreneur, a figure saluted across the globe as the very embodiment of neoliberalism. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher 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. Author Biography Carla Freeman is Winship Distinguished Research Professor of Womens, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and associated faculty in Anthropology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies, at Emory University. She is the author of High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women, Work, and Pink Collar Identities in the Caribbean, also published by Duke University Press, and a coeditor of Global Middle Classes: Ethnographic Particularities, Theoretical Convergences. Table of Contents Acknowledgments ixEntrepreneurial Selves: An Introduction 11. Barbadian Neoliberalism and the Rise of a New Middle-Class Entrepreneurialism 172. Entrepreneurial Affects: "Partnership" Marriage and the New Intimacy 573. The Upward Mobility of Matrifocality 974. Neoliberal Work and Life 1315. The Therapeutic Ethic and the Spirit of Neoliberalism 169Conclusion 207Notes 217References 235Index 251 Review "Carla Freemans scholarship reveals a delicate omnivorousness. She offers a unique perspective on the affective economies through which neoliberal capitalism and its middle-class subjects are made and remade, demonstrating that neoliberalism is not monolithic or guaranteed. Its varied structures of feeling are produced, contested, and differentiated. Freemans way of making and working with theory is rare; it traverses multiple registers, holding in tension the specific, the general, the abstract, and the concrete." "Carla Freemans remarkable book, at once ethnographically thick and theoretically sophisticated, is written with characteristic grace and clarity. Freeman complicates neoliberalism and the crafting of the entrepreneurial subject. She eschews easy generalizations that posit causation from neoliberalism to entrepreneurial subjects wherever they happen to co-exist, by pointing to the articulations of entrepreneurialism with the Caribbean dialectic of respectability/reputation, and by situating the complicated history of neoliberalism in the regions long engagement with global capitalism." Review Quote "Freemans book provides an ethnographically thick and theoretically elaborated contribution, not only to Caribbean anthropology but also, more broadly, to our understanding of the profound affective dimension of work and life at stake in the expansion of entrepreneurship across every sphere of everyday life." Details ISBN0822358034 Author Carla Freeman Publisher Duke University Press ISBN-10 0822358034 ISBN-13 9780822358039 Publication Date 2014-12-03 Short Title ENTREPRENEURIAL SELVES Series Next Wave: New Directions in Womens Studies Language English Media Book Format Paperback Residence GA, US Pages 272 Year 2014 Imprint Duke University Press Subtitle Neoliberal Respectability and the Making of a Caribbean Middle Class Place of Publication North Carolina Country of Publication United States Illustrations 12 illustrations UK Release Date 2014-12-03 AU Release Date 2014-12-03 NZ Release Date 2014-12-03 US Release Date 2014-12-03 Alternative 9780822357926 DEWEY 305.5509729 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:127147832;

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