Entrepreneurial Selves: Neoliberal Respectability and the Making of a Caribbean Middle Class

by Carla Freeman

Book Overview

Entrepreneurial Selves is an ethnography of neoliberalism. Bridging political economy and affect studies, Carla Freeman turns a spotlight on the entrepreneur, a figure saluted across the globe as the very embodiment of neoliberalism. Steeped in more than a decade of ethnography on the emergent entrepreneurial middle class of Barbados, she finds dramatic reworkings of selfhood, intimacy, labor, and life amid the rumbling effects of political-economic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822358034
• ISBN13: 9780822358039
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 3.5" x 10.3"