| Affective Labour: (Dis) assembling Distance and Difference Contributor(s): Thomas, James M. (Author), Correa, Jennifer G. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1783483903 ISBN-13: 9781783483907 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $55.44 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Human Geography - Social Science | Discrimination & Race Relations - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration |
| Dewey: 306.097 |
| LCCN: 2015038714 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 9" (0.60 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Urban |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Affective Labour explores four distinct landscapes in order to demonstrate how collective feelings are organized by social actors in order to both reproduce and contest hegemony. Utilizing a variety of methods, including participant observation, in-depth interviews across field sites, and content analysis of mass media, Correa and Thomas 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 U.S.- Mexico border, urban nightlife districts, American college campuses, and emergent social movements against the police state. The book demonstrates how the power of affective labour might be harnessed for progressively oriented world-building projects, including what the authors term an 'affective labour from below.' By tying an analysis of affective labour into movements for social justice, the authors aim to produce a critical theory of the world that can be practically applied. |
Contributor Bio(s): Thomas, James M.: - James M. Thomas is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Mississippi. His research has been featured in international, peer-reviewed journals including Ethnic and Racial Studies, Ethnicities, and Ethnography. His first monograph is entitled Working to Laugh: Assembling Race and Heteronormativity in an American Stand-Up Comedy Club (Lexington, 2014)Correa, Jennifer G.: - Jennifer G. Correa is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin. Her work has been published in academic journals such as Critical Sociology and Cultural Dynamics. |