The global middle classes : theorizing through ethnography / edited by Rachel Heiman, Carla Freeman, and Mark Liechty.

Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/​Created
Santa Fe, N.M. : SAR Press, 2012.
Description
ix, 348 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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Series
School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series [More in this series]
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-337) and index.
Contents
  • Introduction: charting an anthropology of the middle classes / Rachel Heiman, Mark Liechty, Carla Freeman
  • Living in the future tense: aspiring for world and class in provincial Egypt / Samuli Schielke
  • National identity, bedrooms, and kitchens: gated communities and new narratives of space in India / Sanjay Srivastava
  • Neoliberal respectability: entrepreneurial marriage, affective labor, and a new Caribbean middle class / Carla Freeman
  • The postsocialist middle classes and the new "family house" in Hungary / Krisztina Fehérváry
  • Women in the middle: femininity, virtue, and excess in Indonesian discourses of middle classness / Carla Jones
  • Just managing: American middle-class parenthood in insecure times / Cindi Katz
  • A middle-class public at Mexico's northern border / Rihan Yeh
  • Private homes, distinct lifestyles: performing a new middle class in China / Li Zhang
  • Gate expectations: discursive displacement of the "old middle class" in an American suburb / Rachel Heiman
  • Middle-class déjà vu: conditions of possibility, from Victorian England to contemporary Kathmandu / Mark Liechty.
ISBN
  • 9781934691533 (alk. paper)
  • 1934691534 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2011047607
OCLC
771424995
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