{"title":"All Work Is Cultural Work: Paid Labor and Cultural Citizenship","authors":"Nikita Carney","doi":"10.1353/jhs.2021.0004","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Based on ethnographic research in Boston, Montreal, and Paris, this article examines how Haitian women in diaspora create and recreate multiple national contexts in the course of their paid labor. This multi-sited fieldwork sheds light on the experiences of individual women that point to broader local, national, and transnational sociological processes. This project examines national belonging as a form of cultural citizenship, using the concept of cultural work to highlight the complex relationship between labor and belonging in the nation. Cultural work relates to citizenship in that it provides the labor that creates and maintains the nation; cultural work is an act of cultural citizenship in that it illustrates one's place within the national context. Using cultural work as a lens of analysis, I assert that workplace interactions shape national identity in the daily negotiation of cultural values, norms, and behaviors that indicate who belongs within various national contexts.","PeriodicalId":137704,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Haitian Studies","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Haitian Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jhs.2021.0004","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Abstract
Abstract:Based on ethnographic research in Boston, Montreal, and Paris, this article examines how Haitian women in diaspora create and recreate multiple national contexts in the course of their paid labor. This multi-sited fieldwork sheds light on the experiences of individual women that point to broader local, national, and transnational sociological processes. This project examines national belonging as a form of cultural citizenship, using the concept of cultural work to highlight the complex relationship between labor and belonging in the nation. Cultural work relates to citizenship in that it provides the labor that creates and maintains the nation; cultural work is an act of cultural citizenship in that it illustrates one's place within the national context. Using cultural work as a lens of analysis, I assert that workplace interactions shape national identity in the daily negotiation of cultural values, norms, and behaviors that indicate who belongs within various national contexts.