Jan M Padios

A Nation on the Line

Call Centers as Postcolonial Predicaments in the Philippines

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Produktbeschreibung

Jan M. Padios is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780822370475
• ISBN-10: 0822370476
• Artikelnr.: 48379881

Autorenporträt

Jan M. Padios is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction  1
1. Listening Between the Lines: Relational Labor, Productive Intimacy, and
the Affective Contradictions of Call Center Work  34
2. Contesting Skill and Value: Race, Gender, and Filipino/American
Relatability in the Neoliberal Nation-State  63
3 Inside Vox Elite: Call Center Training and the Limits of
Filipino/American Relatability  93
4. Service with a Style: Aesthetic Pleasures, Productive Youth, and the
Politics of Consumption  131
5. Queering the Call Center: Sexual Politics, HIV/AIDS, and the Crisis of
(Re)Production  157
Conclusion  181
Notes  189
Bibliography  213
Index  225