In the Remains of Progress - Henrique Costa

In the Remains of Progress

Utopia and Suffering in Brazilian Popular Entrepreneurship

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
285 Seiten
2024
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-71185-3 (ISBN)
129,95 inkl. MwSt
This ethnography approaches the popular entrepreneurship based on popular experience in São Paulo, where self-employment and entrepreneurship carries the same utopia of autonomy, but the attempt of modernisation gives shape to political conflicts that are redrawing the sense of community.
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.

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.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag 12.12.2024
Reihe/Serie Studies in Critical Social Sciences / New Scholarship in Political Economy ; 301/29
Verlagsort Leiden
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 1 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Makrosoziologie
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10 90-04-71185-6 / 9004711856
ISBN-13 978-90-04-71185-3 / 9789004711853
Zustand Neuware
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