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Author:   Beatrice Quarshie Smith
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 16.10cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.503kg
ISBN:  

9780739137840

ISBN 10:   0739137840
Pages:   210
Publication Date:   14 June 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments List of Tables Acronyms Part One: Preface and Background Preface: Gender, Biography, and the Researcher: Locating the Self in the Study of New Workspaces Chapter 1: Gender and Globalizing Processes Knowledge Work and Development The Sites, Research Paradigms and the Issues Workplace Literacies and New Work Overview of the Book Chapter 2: The Ethnographic Context: Ghana Fifty-Five Years after Independence The Nation State: a Political, Social and Economic Evolution Literacies, Development and Work The Companies, Management Personnel and Research Participants Part Two: Gender in the Globalization Debate Chapter 3: Gender Politics and Women in Ghana: A Short Herstory Women and Education Women and Work Women and Work in New Times Conclusion: Transnational Feminist Activism and Cross Border Articulations Chapter 4: Gender, Knowledge and New Work Gender in the Globalization Debate Development, Gender and Macro/Micro-Analyses of Globalization Feminisms, Politics, Labels and Discourses on Gender Gender and Neoliberalism Gender, Technology and Globalizing Processes Gender, Knowledge, and New Work Part Three: Research Practices Chapter 5: Multi-sited Ethnography and Hybrid Spaces Seeking Entry Empirical Material Collection Designing research Practices The Field and Fieldwork in Ethnographic research Ethnographic Practices in Hybrid Environments Ethnography and Virtual Work: Other conceptions of Field Methodological Challenges Ethical Tensions in Research in Hybrid Settings Researching Women's Lives on and off Line Part Four: Literacy Practices in the New Workspaces of the Global South Chapter 6: Outsourcing as Glocalization: Material Practices and Fluid Workspaces The Laborscape: Continuities and Discontinuities in Geographies The Network and the Transformation of Work Glocalizing/hybridizing Labor Practices: Shaping Work Cultures Why Outsourcing?: Work, Gender and Identity in the 21st Century Ghana Work, Desire and the Imagination Chapter 7: Literacies of Outsourcing: Scapes and Flows of New Work Literacy, Self-making and the Co-construction of Cyber Workers Recruiting Cyber Workers: Aims, Values, and Realities of Literacies in Use Situated Literacies: Contexts and Practices Online Literacies Offline Literacies at Work Literacies and the Negotiation of Asymmetrical Power Relations Part Five: Conclusion-New Workplace Practices for New Times Chapter 8: The New World of Work: Women and Workplace Literacy Practices-A Social Practice Perspective Education, Knowledge and Work Implications of Networks Work and the Imagination: Of Scapes and Flows Is Globalized Work Empowering for the Women who Work at CTI and CDN? Policy and Practice: Some Implications Contributions of the Project Unfinished Business: Workplace Literacy and Globalization Representation and Legitimization: Nola's Question NOTES APPENDIX: A: RESEARCH QUESTIONS B: INTERVIEW GUIDE C: LETTER TO PARTICIPANTS D: CONSENT FORM E: SAMPLE FLOOR PLANS F: SAMPLE KEY WORDS G: SAMPLE PAY STUB BIBILIOGRAPHY INDEX ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Using a multi-site design, Quarshie-Smith exposes the ways that outsourcing operates as a gendered globalizing activity in Ghana. The contributions to our understanding of processes of globalization and to the need for the development of new methodologies that enrich our understanding of literacy in networked environments in this book are vital and significant. Anyone who thinks they know about networked literacies and gender and anyone who wants to know needs to read this book.--Nancy DeJoy, Michigan State University

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Beatrice Quarshie Smith is an associate professor of Literacy Studies in the Department of Humanities at Michigan Technological University where she is also the Director of the Intensive English as a Second Language Program. Her research interests include explorations of the relationships among globalization, gender, English language literacies and work-related practices.

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