Mediating the global : expatria's forms and consequences in Kathmandu

Mediating the global : expatria's forms and consequences in Kathmandu /

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Transnational business people, international aid workers, and diplomats are all actors on the international stage working for organizations and groups often scrutinized by the public eye. But the very lives of these global middlemen and women are relatively unstudied. Mediating the global takes up t...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Hindman, Heather (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2013
Subjects:
Foreign workers > Nepal > Kathmandu > Social life and customs.
Professional employees > Nepal > Kathmandu > Social life and customs.
International agencies > Officials and employees > Nepal > Kathmandu.
International business enterprises > Nepal > Kathmandu > Employees.
Labor and globalization > Nepal > Kathmandu.
Culture and globalization > Nepal > Kathmandu.
International officials and employees.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : expatria in Nepal
  • Conjunctures of mediations : the historical logics of expatriate Nepal
  • Families that fail : the mechanisms and labor of productivity
  • Market basket economics : the practice of paperwork and shopping like an expatriate
  • The protean expatriate : flexibility and the modern worker
  • Saving business from culture : cross-cultural training and multicultural performances
  • Living in expatria : institutions and the mobile community
  • Conclusion : Kathmandu's twenty-first-century expatria.

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