All Work Is Cultural Work: Paid Labor and Cultural Citizenship

Nikita Carney
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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.
一切工作都是文化工作:有偿劳动与文化公民
摘要:本文以波士顿、蒙特利尔和巴黎的民族志研究为基础,考察散居海地妇女在有偿劳动过程中如何创造和再创造多重民族语境。这个多地点的田野调查揭示了个别妇女的经验,这些经验指向更广泛的地方、国家和跨国的社会学过程。这个项目将民族归属作为一种文化公民的形式进行考察,使用文化工作的概念来强调劳动与民族归属之间的复杂关系。文化工作与公民身份有关,因为它提供了创造和维持国家的劳动力;文化工作是一种文化公民行为,因为它说明了一个人在国家背景中的位置。使用文化工作作为分析的镜头,我断言工作场所的互动在日常的文化价值观、规范和行为的谈判中塑造了国家认同,这些文化价值观、规范和行为表明了谁属于不同的国家背景。
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