In the Remains of Progress

Utopia and Suffering in Brazilian Popular Entrepreneurship

AvHenrique Costa

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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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 global discourse of self-realisation carries a strong attempt at modernisation aimed at young people, but which is also capable of embarrassing older people. From the shopping streets, social entrepreneurship and Pentecostal cults, this process is giving shape to political conflicts that are redrawing the sense of community in São Paulo, the country's largest city.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-12-05
Mått:155 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt:511 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Scholarship in Political Economy
Antal sidor:216
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004711853

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Henrique Costa is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of São Paulo, holds a PhD in Social Sciences from the State University of Campinas, and was a visiting scholar at the Centre of Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge.

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ForewordAcknowledgementsList of MapsIntroduction: In the Remains of Progress1 Wageless Life2 Structure of Feelings3 Questions of Approach4 Book’s GuidePart 1Ethnography1 The Sun Shines for Everyone: The New Peripheral Middle Class1 Utopia in Paraisópolis2 Middle Class in the Quebrada3 Through Generations4 Possible Goals5 Strugglers6 Recognition7 Onwards2 Between Lights and Shadows: Stories of Suffering and Religiosity1 Guiltless World2 Us and Them3 Mistrust4 Prosperity5 Family Ties6 God Willing7 Uncertainty8 Know-How3 Mirages: Utopias of Modernity in Social Entrepreneurship1 Anti-capitalist2 Social Impact3 Two Sides of the Bridge4 Spreading Wings5 Powers6 Competence7 Peripheral SubjectPart 2Structure of Feelings4 Reconfigurations1 Family, Community and Social Classes2 Social Entrepreneurship and the Classless Society3 From Precarious Labour to Popular Entrepreneurship5 Utopia and Suffering1 Self-Management and Therapeutic Narrative in Two Exemplary Cases2 The Guiltless World and Its DeconstructionConclusion: The Moral Economy of the Brazilian Wageless LivesReferencesIndex