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• BEGINN
• Contents
• Prologue: Entering the Field of Research as an Intern-ethnographer
• 1 Introduction
• 1.1 Point of Departure and Research Aim
• 1.2 Early Career Workers at the UN: Critical Perspectives on Work and International Organizations, Biographies and Mobility
• 1.3 From Description to Interpretation and Analysis: On Writing Ethnographies and the Purpose and Potential of Ethnographic Vignettes
• 1.4 Overview of the Chapters
• The Futile Search for the Tourist Gaze
• 2 Assembling the Field: Insights into two UN Headquarters Duty Stations and the UN Staff System
• 2.1 Disparate Domains – A Multi-sited Research Study on Early Career UN Workers
• 2.2 Historic Entanglements and Administrative Continuations: The Legacy of the League of Nations and the Beginnings of the United Nations
• 2.3 Where Bureaucratic Threads Converge: Constructions of Atmosphere and Space at Two UN Headquarter Duty Stations in Europe
• 2.4 Staff Hierarchies – Insights into the UN Staff System
• 2.5 The UN as a Global Assemblage
• On Interview Atmospheres and Linear Stories
• 3 Studying Self-aware Informants: Methodological Considerations on Research with Early Career UN Workers
• 3.1 Along the Vertical or the Horizontal Axis? Immersion in the Everyday Working Life at the UN
• 3.2 Oscillating between the Working Intern Self and the Observing Ethnographer Self: On Fieldwork Encounters and Positionality
• 3.3 The Para-ethnographic Knowledge and Sensibilities of UN Workers
• 3.4 Immersion in the UN as a Fluid Research Process
• Promoting Cross-cultural Competences
• 4 Ritualized Practices and Interactions: Insights into the (In)formal Organizational Culture of the UN
• 4.1 Theories of Social Orders: Ritual Theories Applied to Contemporary Societies and Organizations
• 4.2 Routinized Moments and Habitualized Actions of the Everyday UN Work Culture
• 4.3 Habitualized Practices and Social Orders in the UN
• “You are not UNICEF. You are not UNDP. You are UN!†
• 5 Homo UN and the Habitus of International Life and Work
• 5.1 The Discursive Creation (and Critical Analysis) of the (Employee-)Self in Contemporary Workplaces
• 5.2 Homo UN – the Wanted UN Worker
• 5.3 Skillful Rhetoric – the Narrative Habitus of UN Employees
• 5.4 Walking on the “Many Roads to Timbuktu†? Resonances of Explicit and Implicit Requirements
• 5.5 Habitus of International Life and Work or The Ability to Align Different Narratives
• In Limbo between Internships, Consultancies and a Staff Position
• 6 Privileged Precarities: Mechanisms of Flexibility, Subjectification and Precarity at the UN
• 6.1 Discourses on Work and Precarity in the Era of Cognitive Capitalism
• 6.2 When Double Standards Are Applied: Aspects of Job (In)Security and (Im)Mobility at the UN
• 6.3 Precarity of Highly-Skilled Early Career Professionals
• 7 Conclusion
• 7.1 Summary of the Chapters
• 7.2 Narratives of Early Career UN Workers in Times of Cognitive and Affect-based Capitalism
• 7.3 Outlook
• Epilogue: “As soon as the opportunity comes.†
• Abbreviations and Acronyms
• Works Cited
• Annex
• Acknowledgments