James M. Thomas

Affective Labour

(Dis) assembling Distance and Difference

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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 th… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Correa, Jennifer G.

ISBN: 978-1-78348-390-7
EAN: 9781783483907
Produktnummer: 21105390
Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 236 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.4 cm 369 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 369

Über den Autor

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)