Mediating the global
Subtitle: expatria's forms and consequences in Kathmandu
By: Heather Hindman
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780804786515
Subjects: Foreign workers; Social life and customs; Professional employees; International agencies; Officials and employees; International business enterprises; Employees; Labor and globalization; Culture and globalization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-263) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : expatria in Nepal; title: Conjunctures of mediations : the historical logics of expatriate Nepal; title: Families that fail : the mechanisms and labor of productivity; title: Market basket economics : the practice of paperwork and shopping like an expatriate; title: The protean expatriate : flexibility and the modern worker; title: Saving business from culture : cross-cultural training and multicultural performances; title: Living in expatria : institutions and the mobile community; title: Conclusion : Kathmandu's twenty-first-century expatria.