The Global Middle Classes: Theorizing Through Ethnography

Abstract

Surging middle-class aspirations and anxieties throughout world have recently compelled anthropologists to pay serious attention to middle and middle-class spaces, sentiments, lifestyles, labours, and civic engagements. Middle classness has become a powerful category for self-identification, as political and corporate leaders increasingly hail the middle classes as ideal subject-citizenry. Ethnographically rich and culturally particular, essays in this volume elucidate middle-class experience and discourse and in so doing add critical nuance to theories of class itself.

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