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... Based on six months of participant observation at a community center, chapter 8 examines poor women’s care work and their quest for recognition. We show that the community center is a site of intense sociability and collective care, central to the formation of a particular type of female...

... community work female labor care work recognition ethnography ...

... Globalization communication night work identity functional integration ...

... São Paulo urbanization working-class community Brazilian industrialization ...

... popular culture working-class community workers’ everyday life ...

... As work regimes become global, social communication increasingly occurs across locations far apart. In the absence of a common national, ethnic, or organizational culture across continents, this chapter asks: what makes communication possible among social worlds technologically integrated...

... but that can also run cover for failures to provide access to lifesaving treatments. Work in a cholera epidemic in Venezuela illustrates how health communication and education efforts can further stigmatize indigenous and other oppressed populations. HIV/AIDS cholera health communication global health...

... of the local workforce created unusual conditions for the formation of a working-class community. São Paulo urbanization working-class community Brazilian industrialization ...

... The introduction draws on work by Black feminist writers, especially Hortense Spillers and Savannah Shange, and the indigenous ethnographer Audra Simpson to launch an analysis of how models of communication and medicine have been embedded in colonialism, white supremacy, and racism for three...

... This chapter extends the book's key argument regarding the relationship between health inequities and health/communicative inequities. Like the "carceral apparatus" (Loïc Wacquant) that dominates the lives of U.S. working-class African Americans, officials' responses to the 1992–1993 cholera...

... This chapter is a conversation with a former member of the Bulgarian Women’s Committee who worked as a treasurer for the Women’s International Democratic Federation in the German Democratic Republic in the 1980s. German Democratic Republic communism Women’s International Democratic...

... This chapter is a conversation with a former member of the Bulgarian Women’s Committee who continues to be active with nongovernmental organizations in Bulgaria. It includes a detailed discussion of the domestic work of the Women’s Committee and the need for continuing activism. Bulgaria...

.... In response to repression and to meet the needs of local communities, the Panthers created community service programs. These programs thrust them into the hearts of poor black communities and provided key ways for ordinary people to support their political work. Peace and Freedom Party Bill Jennings...

... the research process. It encourages building project listening skills—knowing when to pause, rest, and work—in order to generate new forms of work and knowledge production. Together, these comprise a few possible creative openings for fostering careful and intentional community- and inquiry-building...

... of a Northeastern identity among migrant workers overlapped with ideals of work and worker. popular culture working-class community workers’ everyday life ...

... For Marta Colque, the past of the hacienda was associated with hard work from dawn to dusk, scarcity and poverty, and the constant lack of food. In contrast, she recalled the community of her birth, Punku Uyu (near the town of Huarina on Lake Titicaca), as a fertile, green place of communal...

... The introduction provides an overview of the book’s main themes and emphasizes its focus on Puerto Rican women’s activism. It begins by focusing on the life and work of Puerto Rican activist social worker Yolanda Sanchez, whose work demonstrates how Puerto Rican women used careers in social work...

... Chapter 3 considers modes of authority that undergird exhibitions and museums, a vital premise for their communicative work, before examining cultural identity and difference as an abiding exhibition concern. It introduces the broad sense of ethnographic used throughout the book, taking...