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Record Nr.

UNINA9910954902903321

Autore

Mirchandani Kiran

Titolo

Borders in Service : Enactments of Nationhood in Transnational Call Centres / / Kiran Mirchandani, Winifred Poster

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]

©2016

ISBN

1-4875-1186-8

1-4875-1185-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 pages) : illustrations, charts

Disciplina

658.812

Soggetti

Call centers - Employees

Call centers - Social aspects

Service industries workers

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Cover ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Enactments of Nationhood in Transnational Call Centres ; Part 1. Call Centres as Building Blocks for Narratives of the Nation State ; 2. "El Salvador Works": The Creation and Negotiation of a National Brand and the Transnational Imaginary; 3. Growing Downhill? Contestations of Sovereignty and the Creation of Itinerant Workers in Guyanese Call Centres; 4. "An Island Off the West Coast of Australia": Multiplex Geography and the Growth of Transnational Telemediated Service Work in Mauritius.

Part 2. Constructing Nationally Appropriate (and Inappropriate) Workers5. Serving the World, Serving the Nation: Everyday Nationalism and English in Philippine Offshore Call Centres; 6. Transnational "Homies" and the Urban Middle Class: Enactments of Class, Nation, and Modernity in Guatemalan Call Centres; Part 3. Caught in the Middle -- Labours of Borders and Crossings; 7. Migrations a l'envers: Global Service Work and Discursive Crossings; 8. Border Speech between Two National Linguistic Ideologies: The Case of Bilingual El Paso Call Centres; Summary.



Sommario/riassunto

In this collection, Kiran Mirchandani and Winifred Poster have gathered a wide range of contributors to explore the dynamics within global call centres.