- 288 pages
- English
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About this book
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 the challenge, uncovering the day-to-day experiences of elite foreign workers and their families living in Nepal, and the policies and practices that determine their daily lives. In this book, Heather Hindman calls for a consideration of the complex role that global middlemen and women play, not merely in implementing policies, but as objects of policy.
Examining the lives of expatriate professionals working in Kathmandu, Nepal and the families that accompany them, Hindman unveils intimate stories of the everyday life of global mediators. Mediating the Global focuses on expatriate employees and families who are affiliated with international development bodies, multinational corporations, and the foreign service of various countries. The author investigates the life of expatriates while they visit recreational clubs and international schools and also examines how the practices of international human resources management, cross-cultural communication, and promotion of flexible careers are transforming the world of elite overseas workers.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Title Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Expatria in Nepal
- 1. Conjunctures of Mediations: The Historical Logics of Expatriate Nepal
- 2. Families That Fail: The Mechanisms and Labor of Productivity
- 3. Market Basket Economics: The Practice of Paperwork and Shopping like an Expatriate
- 4. The Protean Expatriate: Flexibility and the Modern Worker
- 5. Saving Business from Culture: Cross-Cultural Training and Multicultural Performances
- 6. Living in Expatria: Institutions and the Mobile Community
- Conclusion: Kathmandu’s Twenty-First-Century Expatria
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index