Bargains! PROMOTIONS
Jonas Hassemer is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna, Austria. His research focuses on ethnographic approaches to multilingualism, language and social inequality, subjectivation and the lived experience of language.
This fascinating ethnography of an Austrian refugee support organisation provides an exceptionally unique window into the fault lines of inequality constituting the neoliberalised workplace in the non-profit sector. Through an extremely thorough analysis of empirical data, Hassemer builds a compelling case for centring language in the analysis of contemporary labour. * Eva Codó, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain * How does being a responsible and professional social service worker position one within relations of power? Jonas Hassemer’s clear-eyed and thought-provoking ethnography traces the complex dynamics of language underlying refugee support work, uncovering the insidious process by which neoliberal subjectivities are crafted under precarious conditions of labor. * Joseph Sung-Yul Park, National University of Singapore * Through a carefully crafted ethnography and close attention to socially situated linguistic practices, this book offers rare and compelling insights into language as labor, as well as into the everyday lives and struggles of precarious institutions and workers committed to refugee support. * Alexandre Duchêne, University of Fribourg, Switzerland *
