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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Linda M Mülli |
| ISBN: | 9783593513898 3593513897 |
| OCLC Number: | 1263810996 |
| Description: | 354 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Point of Departure and Research Aim -- 1.2. Early Career Workers at the UN: Critical Perspectives on Work and International Organizations, Biographies and Mobility -- 1.3. From Description to Interpretation and Analysis: On Writing Ethnographies and the Purpose and Potential of Ethnographic Vignettes -- 1.4. Overview of the Chapters -- The Futile Search for the Tourist Gaze -- 2. Assembling the Field: Insights into two UN Headquarters Duty Stations and the UN Staff System -- 2.1. Disparate Domains -- A Multi-sited Research Study on Early Career UN Workers -- 2.2. Historic Entanglements and Administrative Continuations: The Legacy of the League of Nations and the Beginnings of the United Nations -- 2.3. Where Bureaucratic Threads Converge: Constructions of Atmosphere and Space at Two UN Headquarter Duty Stations in Europe -- 2.4. Staff Hierarchies -- Insights into the UN Staff System -- 2.5. The UN as a Global Assemblage -- On Interview Atmospheres and Linear Stories -- 3. Studying Self-aware Informants: Methodological Considerations on Research with Early Career UN Workers -- 3.1. Along the Vertical or the Horizontal Axis? Immersion in the Everyday Working Life at the UN -- 3.2. Oscillating between the Working Intern Self and the Observing Ethnographer Self: On Fieldwork Encounters and Positionality -- 3.3. The Para-ethnographic Knowledge and Sensibilities of UN Workers -- 3.4. Immersion in the UN as a Fluid Research Process -- Promoting Cross-cultural Competences -- 4. Ritualized Practices and Interactions: Insights into the (In)formal Organizational Culture of the UN -- 4.1. Theories of Social Orders: Ritual Theories Applied to Contemporary Societies and Organizations -- 4.2. Routinized Moments and Habitualized Actions of the Everyday UN Work Culture -- 4.3. Habitualized Practices and Social Orders in the UN -- "Youarenot UNICEF. You are not UNDP. You are UN!" -- 5. Homo UN and the Habitus of International Life and Work -- 5.1. The Discursive Creation (and Critical Analysis) of the (Employee-)Self in Contemporary Workplaces -- 5.2. Homo UN-the Wanted UN Worker -- 5.3. Skillful Rhetoric -- the Narrative Habitus of UN Employees -- 5.4. Walking on the "Many Roads to Timbuktu"? Resonances of Explicit and Implicit Requirements -- 5.5. Habitus of International Life and Work or The Ability to Align Different Narratives -- In Limbo between Internships, Consultancies and a Staff Position -- 6. Privileged Precarities: Mechanisms of Flexibility, Subjedification and Precarity at the UN -- 6.1. Discourses on Work and Precarity in the Era of Cognitive Capitalism -- 6.2. When Double Standards Are Applied: Aspects of Job (In)Security and (Im)Mobility at the UN -- 6.3. Precarity of Highly-Skilled Early Career Professionals -- 7. Conclusion -- 7.1. Summary of the Chapters -- 7.2. Narratives of Early Career UN Workers in Times of Cognitive and Affect-based Capitalism -- 7.3. Outlook. |
| Series Title: | Work and everyday life, v. 19. |
| Responsibility: | Linda M. Mülli. |
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