In the Remains of Progress : Utopia and Suffering in Brazilian Popular Entrepreneurship /

This book proposes an ethnographic approach to popular entrepreneurship based on the experience of the wageless life in Brazil. It starts from the historical premise that self-employment is at the heart of the popular way of life, whose main characteristic is the desire for autonomy. In turn, the gl...

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Main Author: Costa, Henrique (Author)

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Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2025.

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505 0 |t Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- List of Maps -- Introduction: In the Remains of Progress -- 1 Wageless Life -- 2 Structure of Feelings -- 3 Questions of Approach -- 4 Book's Guide -- Part 1 -- Ethnography -- 1 The Sun Shines for Everyone: The New Peripheral Middle Class -- 1 Utopia in Paraisópolis -- 2 Middle Class in the Quebrada -- 3 Through Generations -- 4 Possible Goals -- 5 Strugglers -- 6 Recognition -- 7 Onwards -- 2 Between Lights and Shadows: Stories of Suffering and Religiosity -- 1 Guiltless World -- 2 Us and Them -- 3 Mistrust -- 4 Prosperity -- 5 Family Ties -- 6 God Willing -- 7 Uncertainty -- 8 Know-How -- 3 Mirages: Utopias of Modernity in Social Entrepreneurship -- 1 Anti-capitalist -- 2 Social Impact -- 3 Two Sides of the Bridge -- 4 Spreading Wings -- 5 Powers -- 6 Competence -- 7 Peripheral Subject -- Part 2 -- Structure of Feelings -- 4 Reconfigurations -- 1 Family, Community and Social Classes -- 2 Social Entrepreneurship and the Classless Society -- 3 From Precarious Labour to Popular Entrepreneurship -- 5 Utopia and Suffering -- 1 Self-Management and Therapeutic Narrative in Two Exemplary Cases -- 2 The Guiltless World and Its Deconstruction -- Conclusion: The Moral Economy of the Brazilian Wageless Lives -- References -- Index. 
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