The Global Middle Classes
Author | : Rachel Heiman |
Publisher | : School for Advanced Research Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
ISBN-10 | : 1934691534 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781934691533 |
Rating | : 4/5 (533 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Global Middle Classes written by Rachel Heiman and published by School for Advanced Research Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.