{"product_id":"downwardly-global-9780822363019","title":"Downwardly Global","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLalaie Ameeriar follows the experiences of immigrant Pakistani women in Toronto who—despite being skilled, white-collar workers—suffer high levels of unemployment and poverty and who are advised by government-sanctioned worker programs to conform to an embodied form of multiculturalism that privileges whiteness and erases difference.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Ameeriar’s book echoes an important refrain from diasporic feminist scholars, insisting that despite the various scales at which disenfranchisement and violence function, migrant women resourcefully find ways to persist.” -- Kareem Khubchandani * Journal of Asian American Studies *\u003cbr\u003e“Radically subversive, superbly written.” -- Pnina Werbner * Pacific Affairs *\u003cbr\u003e\"Of interest to scholars of citizenship and governance, globalization and neoliberalism, gender and embodiment, multiculturalism and race, this book is a rich read for its deployment of analytical concepts and the creation of two new ones: pedagogies of affect and sanitized sensorium.\" -- Alison Shaw * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Bodies and Bureaucracies  25\u003cbr\u003e 2. Pedagogies of Affect  53\u003cbr\u003e 3. Sanitizing Citizenship  75\u003cbr\u003e 4. Racializing South Asia  101\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Catastrophic Present  127\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion  153\u003cbr\u003e Notes  169\u003cbr\u003e References  181\u003cbr\u003e Index  201","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406100341079,"sku":"9780822363019","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822363019.jpg?v=1730494528","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/downwardly-global-9780822363019","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}