Global Middle Classes: Theorizing Through Ethnography

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1934691534
• ISBN13: 9781934691533
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 8.8"