Affective labour : (dis)assembling distance and difference / James M. Thomas and Jennifer G. Correa.
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TextPublisher: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2015Description: 234 pagesContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781783483907 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Social conflict -- United States | Equality -- United States | Society | Society | United States -- Social conditions -- 21st centuryDDC classification: 306'.0973 Summary: This study explores four distinct landscapes in order to demonstrate how collective feelings are organised by social actors in order to both reproduce and contest hegemony. Utilising a variety of methods, including participant observation, in-depth interviews across field sites, and content analysis of mass media, it demonstrate the centrality of affective labor in enabling and constraining prevailing norms and practices of race, citizenship, class, gender and sexuality across multiple spatial contexts: the US-Mexico border, urban nightlife districts, American college campuses, and emergent social movements against the police state.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
This study explores four distinct landscapes in order to demonstrate how collective feelings are organised by social actors in order to both reproduce and contest hegemony. Utilising a variety of methods, including participant observation, in-depth interviews across field sites, and content analysis of mass media, it demonstrate the centrality of affective labor in enabling and constraining prevailing norms and practices of race, citizenship, class, gender and sexuality across multiple spatial contexts: the US-Mexico border, urban nightlife districts, American college campuses, and emergent social movements against the police state.
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