Does Skill Make Us Human? : : Migrant Workers in 21st-Century Qatar and Beyond / / Natasha Iskander.
An in-depth look at Qatar's migrant workers and the place of skill in the language of control and powerSkill—specifically the distinction between the “skilled” and “unskilled”—is generally defined as a measure of ability and training, but Does Skill Make Us Human? shows instead that skill disti...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Regulation: How the Politics of Skill Become Law
- Chapter 2 Production: How Skill Makes Cities
- Chapter 3 Skill: How Skill Is Embodied and What It Means for the Control of Bodies
- Chapter 4 Protest: How Skillful Practice Becomes Resistance
- Chapter 5 Body: How Definitions of Skill Cause Injury
- Chapter 6 Earth: How the Politics of Skill Shape Responses to Climate Change
- Conclusion
- Postscript
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index