Surging middle-class aspirations and anxieties throughout the world have recently compelled anthropologists to pay serious attention to middle classes and middle-class spaces, sentiments, lifestyles, labors, and civic engagements. Middle classness has become a powerful category for self-identification, as political and corporate leaders increasingly hail “the middle classes” as the ideal subject-citizenry. Ethnographically rich and culturally particular, the essays in this volume elucidate middle-class experience and discourse and in so doing add critical nuance to theories of class itself.
Surging middle-class aspirations and anxieties throughout the world have recently compelled anthropologists to pay serious attention to middle classes and middle-class spaces, sentiments, lifestyles, labors, and civic engagements. Middle classness has become a powerful category for self-identification, as political and corporate leaders increasingly hail “the middle classes” as the ideal subject-citizenry. Ethnographically rich and culturally particular, the essays in this volume elucidate middle-class experience and discourse and in so doing add critical nuance to theories of class itself.
The Global Middle Classes: Theorizing through Ethnography
368
The Global Middle Classes: Theorizing through Ethnography
368
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781934691533 |
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| Publisher: | School for Advanced Research Press |
| Publication date: | 06/20/2012 |
| Series: | School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series |
| Edition description: | New Edition |
| Pages: | 368 |
| Sales rank: | 360,171 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d) |