Search Results for immaterial labor

... This chapter details the history of the NGO’s interventions in the village of Chicacnab, paying particular attention to its fostering of the ecotourism project as a means to promote conservation of the cloud forest. It foregrounds the tense relation between immaterial labor (qua commodified...

.... Putting jokes and gifts together suggests another reading of the gift—as a material instantiation of the problem of commensuration. Both jokes and gifts help commensurate the dictates of work and the demands of middle-class identity. The chapter argues that jokes help ease the racial division of labor...

... Kwaito South Africa immaterial labor autonomous Marxists Johannesburg ...

... Born into Brothels pseudoparticipatory documentary photography immaterial labor indigenous media ...

... the ontology of music and the very nature of audition, that is, of what it means to hear empire.  Kwaito South Africa immaterial labor autonomous Marxists Johannesburg ...

... with literature on twentieth-century Black American Christian women, which informs the study’s findings. At the same time, viewing churchwomen’s work as labor is a crucial departure from existing studies. Engaging late twentieth-century feminist labor theories enables analysis of material and immaterial labor...

... coordinates for a digital media project. In an augmented reality format, the archive might be an alternative means of generating funds to mining. This chapter examines how what Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt describe as a form of “immaterial labor” driving “the postmodernisation of the global economy...

... that Worth and Adair’s dialectical investments in the figure of the child defamiliarize conventional engagements with documentary. Born into Brothels pseudoparticipatory documentary photography immaterial labor indigenous media ...

... of immaterial production, and he investigates the consequences of this idea. Looking at the economy of post-apartheid Johannesburg, Steingo shows that music is often conceived as metonymic of urban labor practices. He concludes by arguing that if the hegemonic form of contemporary production is performative...

... in the everyday (here called eros), which helps define being middle class. It argues that alternatives to the colonization of leisure by work exist even within neoliberal regimes of work. These alternatives to immaterial labor flourish in the interstices between work as organized by firms and a middle-class...

... of pleasure in the everyday (here called eros), which helps define being middle class. It argues that alternatives to the colonization of leisure by work exist even within neoliberal regimes of work. These alternatives to immaterial labor flourish in the interstices between work as organized by firms...

... This chapter reveals how women perform aesthetic labor in material and immaterial realms to (re-)produce and (re-)interpret the meanings of living a holy life. Regulations on dress demonstrate the standard of respectable appearance. Examining the aesthetics of presentation, we gain insight...

... of righteousness. Ultimately, women perform religious labor to produce holy Black womanhood. Navigating the webs of spiritual, social, and organizational relationships calls for women to acquire and hone a wide range of skills across material and immaterial realms, to carry out the demanding labor of faith. ...

... management will be thought of together. In thinking about land history, philanthropy, and the relationship between labor history and aesthetic movements together, the introduction displays the scope of the monograph. It also provides descriptions of the chapters. philanthropy racial capitalism...

... in translation to understand the quotidian politics in interactions among people with different cultural backgrounds. nature subjectivity freedom indeterminacy transnational labor ...

... Palace and on to the Eiffel Tower, monumental works of modernity are employed in this chapter, and the following chapters, to plot the development of this new world of market-based rationality, knowledge, and power. division of labor bored Dasein Joseph Paxton Lilly House Exposition Universelle...