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)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

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

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Call Number: F1418

Table of Contents:
  • 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.