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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التنسيق: كتاب الكتروني
اللغة: English
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2025.
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Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
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جدول المحتويات:
- 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.