In the Remains of Progress

Utopia and Suffering in Brazilian Popular Entrepreneurship
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-71185-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 301/29, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: Studies in Critical Social Sciences / New Scholarship in Political Economy

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Costa, Henrique

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensführung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftssysteme, Wirtschaftsstrukturen

Über Autor(innen)

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.