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Auteur(s) : Hennessy, Rosemary
Titre(s) : Fires on the border [Texte imprimé] : the passionate politics of labor organizing on the Mexican frontera / Rosemary Hennessy
Publication : Minneapolis ; London : Univ Of Minnesota Press, [2013]
Description matérielle : xxvi, 301 pages ; 23 cm
Comprend : History, affect, representation: Labor organizing in Mexico's entangled economies
; The materiality of affect ; Bearing witness ; Sex, labor, movement: Open secrets
; The value of a second skin ; Feeling bodies, jeans, justice ; The north-south encuentros
; The utopian question: Love in the common.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-280) and index
"The history of the maquiladoras has been punctuated by workers' organized resistance
to abysmal working and living conditions. Over years of involvement in such movements,
Rosemary Hennessy was struck by an elusive but significant feature of these struggles:
the extent to which organizing is driven by attachments of affection and antagonism,
belief, betrayal, and identification. What precisely is the "affective" dimension
of organizing for justice? Are affects and emotions the same? And how can their value
be calculated? Fires on the Border takes up these questions of labor and community
organizing--its "affect-culture"--on Mexico's northern border from the early 1970s
to the present day. Through these campaigns, Hennessy illuminates the attachments
and identifications that motivate people to act on behalf of one another and that
bind them to a common cause. The book's unsettling, even jarring, narratives bring
together empirical and ethnographic accounts--of specific campaigns, the untold stories
of gay and lesbian organizers, love and utopian longing--in concert with materialist
theories of affect and the critical good sense of Mexican organizers. Teasing out
the integration of affect-culture in economic relations and cultural processes, Hennessy
provides evidence that sexuality and gender as strong affect attractors are incorporated
in the harvesting of surplus labor. At the same time, workers' testimonies confirm
that the capacities for bonding and affective attachment, far from being entirely
at the service of capital, are at the very heart of social movements devoted to sustaining
life."
Sujet(s) : Délocalisations (économie politique) -- Région frontalière américano-mexicaine
Syndicalisation -- Région frontalière américano-mexicaine
Maquiladoras -- Personnel féminin -- Conditions sociales -- Mexique
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780816647583 (hardback) (acid-free paper). - ISBN 0816647585 (hardback) (acid-free
paper). - ISBN 9780816679621 (pb) (acid-free paper). - ISBN 0816679622 (pb) (acid-free
paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43889813n
Notice n° :
FRBNF43889813
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