Steeped in more than a decade of ethnography on the emergent middle class of Barbados, this remarkable book turns a spotlight on the entrepreneur, a figure saluted across the globe as the very embodiment of neoliberalism.
Steeped in more than a decade of ethnography on the emergent middle class of Barbados, this remarkable book turns a spotlight on the entrepreneur, a figure saluted across the globe as the very embodiment of neoliberalism.
Carla Freeman is Winship Distinguished Research Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and associated faculty in Anthropology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies, at Emory University. She is the author of High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women, Work, and Pink Collar Identities in the Caribbean, also published by Duke University Press, and a coeditor of Global Middle Classes: Ethnographic Particularities, Theoretical Convergences.
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Acknowledgments ix Entrepreneurial Selves: An Introduction 1 1. Barbadian Neoliberalism and the Rise of a New Middle-Class Entrepreneurialism 17 2. Entrepreneurial Affects: "Partnership" Marriage and the New Intimacy 57 3. The Upward Mobility of Matrifocality 97 4. Neoliberal Work and Life 131 5. The Therapeutic Ethic and the Spirit of Neoliberalism 169 Conclusion 207 Notes 217 References 235 Index 251
Acknowledgments ix Entrepreneurial Selves: An Introduction 1 1. Barbadian Neoliberalism and the Rise of a New Middle-Class Entrepreneurialism 17 2. Entrepreneurial Affects: "Partnership" Marriage and the New Intimacy 57 3. The Upward Mobility of Matrifocality 97 4. Neoliberal Work and Life 131 5. The Therapeutic Ethic and the Spirit of Neoliberalism 169 Conclusion 207 Notes 217 References 235 Index 251
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