Titlebook: Development at Work; Postcolonial Imagina André Weißenfels Book 2024 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licen

Thymus

亲爱

Armut, Ausgrenzung, UnterklasseThis chapter argues for a multi-dimensional understanding of development as an empirical fact and analytical lense. It analyzes some of those dimensions and presents the according academic debates in order to situate this book in existing academic scholarship.

CREST

Insufficient

Lebensformen, städtische und ländlicheThis chapter shows how the development promises reverberate in the ways employees at the factory imagine and assess their lives. It argues that even though they work in a neoliberal environment, their aspirations are not an expression of neoliberal subjectivity but of the post-colonial imaginary of a secure and steady career.

字谜游戏

Armut, Ausgrenzung, UnterklasseThis chapter shows how global enterprises and international markets are intrinsically bureaucratic. It argues that this bureaucracy, in the case of the factory, speaks to the development imaginary of the employees, generates positive affects and thus alligns their aspirations withthe profit interests of the firm.

创作

Introduction,This chapter introduces the factory as the main field site of this research. It presents the research questions, the contributions, and the structure of the book.

Spinal-Fusion

Method and Methodology,This chapter presents the methods used to gather and analyze the data that this thesis is based on. It also positions ethnography inside the discipline of political science.

富饶

Conceptual Framework: Towards a Multilayered Understanding of Development,This chapter argues for a multi-dimensional understanding of development as an empirical fact and analytical lense. It analyzes some of those dimensions and presents the according academic debates in order to situate this book in existing academic scholarship.

压迫

,Context: A Brief History of Tunisia’s Political Economy,This chapter summarizes the literature on the history of Tunisia’s economic policies. It assesses Tunisia’s economy as dependent as well as uneven and combined and argues that this is the result of the contradictions and limits of governments’ decade-long efforts to establish legitimacy.

我就不公正

Analysis Part II: Development Imaginaries at CERAT,This chapter shows how the development promises reverberate in the ways employees at the factory imagine and assess their lives. It argues that even though they work in a neoliberal environment, their aspirations are not an expression of neoliberal subjectivity but of the post-colonial imaginary of a secure and steady career.