Proposing a culture-centered approach to career scholarship: The example of subsistence careers in the US Arctic.
In this article, I draw from the culture-centered approach to explore contemporary negotiations of career and work, positing career as a form of cultural practice. Rooted in postcolonial theory and subaltern studies, the culture-centered approach examines the active accomplishment of culture through...
| Publicado en: | Human Relations Vol. 68; no. 12; pp. 1813 - 1836 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Dec2015
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