Privileged precarities : an organizational ethnography on early career workers at the united nations / Linda M. Mülli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mülli, Linda M., author.

Series:

Work and everyday life ; v. 19.

Work and everyday life : ethnographic studies on work cultures ; volume 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United Nations--Officials and employees.

United Nations.

Job security.

Employees.

Physical Description:

354 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt ; New York : Campus Verlag, [2021]

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction

1.1. Point of Departure and Research Aim

1.2. Early Career Workers at the UN: Critical Perspectives on Work and International Organizations, Biographies and Mobility

1.3. From Description to Interpretation and Analysis: On Writing Ethnographies and the Purpose and Potential of Ethnographic Vignettes

1.4. Overview of the Chapters

The Futile Search for the Tourist Gaze

2. Assembling the Field: Insights into two UN Headquarters Duty Stations and the UN Staff System

2.1. Disparate Domains - A Multi-sited Research Study on Early Career UN Workers

2.2. Historic Entanglements and Administrative Continuations: The Legacy of the League of Nations and the Beginnings of the United Nations

2.3. Where Bureaucratic Threads Converge: Constructions of Atmosphere and Space at Two UN Headquarter Duty Stations in Europe

2.4. Staff Hierarchies - Insights into the UN Staff System

2.5. The UN as a Global Assemblage

On Interview Atmospheres and Linear Stories

3. Studying Self-aware Informants: Methodological Considerations on Research with Early Career UN Workers

3.1. Along the Vertical or the Horizontal Axis? Immersion in the Everyday Working Life at the UN

3.2. Oscillating between the Working Intern Self and the Observing Ethnographer Self: On Fieldwork Encounters and Positionality

3.3. The Para-ethnographic Knowledge and Sensibilities of UN Workers

3.4. Immersion in the UN as a Fluid Research Process

Promoting Cross-cultural Competences

4. Ritualized Practices and Interactions: Insights into the (In)formal Organizational Culture of the UN

4.1. Theories of Social Orders: Ritual Theories Applied to Contemporary Societies and Organizations

4.2. Routinized Moments and Habitualized Actions of the Everyday UN Work Culture

4.3. Habitualized Practices and Social Orders in the UN

"Youarenot UNICEF. You are not UNDP. You are UN!"

5. Homo UN and the Habitus of International Life and Work

5.1. The Discursive Creation (and Critical Analysis) of the (Employee-)Self in Contemporary Workplaces

5.2. Homo UN-the Wanted UN Worker

5.3. Skillful Rhetoric - the Narrative Habitus of UN Employees

5.4. Walking on the "Many Roads to Timbuktu"? Resonances of Explicit and Implicit Requirements

5.5. Habitus of International Life and Work or The Ability to Align Different Narratives

In Limbo between Internships, Consultancies and a Staff Position

6. Privileged Precarities: Mechanisms of Flexibility, Subjedification and Precarity at the UN

6.1. Discourses on Work and Precarity in the Era of Cognitive Capitalism

6.2. When Double Standards Are Applied: Aspects of Job (In)Security and (Im)Mobility at the UN

6.3. Precarity of Highly-Skilled Early Career Professionals

7. Conclusion

7.1. Summary of the Chapters

7.2. Narratives of Early Career UN Workers in Times of Cognitive and Affect-based Capitalism

7.3. Outlook.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783593513898

3593513897

OCLC:

1263810996