The Global Middle Classes Theorizing Through Ethnography Rachel Heiman Editor by Rachel Heiman (editor), Carla Freeman (editor), Mark Liechty (editor), Krisztina Fehérváry, Carla Freeman, Rachel Heiman, Carla Jones, Cindi Katz, Mark Liechty, Samuli Schielke, Sanjay Srivastava, Rihan Yeh, Li Zhang 9781934691533, 9781938645051, 1934691534, 1938645057 instant download after payment.

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.
1.    Introduction: Charting an Anthropology of the Middle Classes
    Rachel Heiman, Mark Liechty, and Carla Freeman
2.   Living in the Future Tense: Aspiring for World and Class in Provincial Egypt
    Samuli Schielke
3.   National Identity, Bedrooms, and Kitchens: Gated Communities and New Narratives of Space in India
    Sanjay Srivastava
4.    Neoliberal Respectability: Entrepreneurial Marriage, Affective Labor, and a New Caribbean Middle Class
    Carla Freeman
5.   The Postsocialist Middle Classes and the New “Family House” in Hungary
    Krisztina Fehérváry
6.   Women in the Middle: Femininity, Virtue, and Excess in Indonesian Discourses of Middle Classness
    Carla Jones
7.   Just Managing: American Middle-Class Parenthood in Insecure Times
    Cindi Katz
8.   A Middle-Class Public at Mexico’s Northern Border
    Rihan Yeh
9.   Private Homes, Distinct Lifestyles: Performing a New Middle Class in China
    Li Zhang
10.   Gate Expectations: Discursive Displacement of the “Old Middle Class” in an American Suburb
    Rachel Heiman
11.   Middle-Class Déjà Vu: Conditions of Possibility, from Victorian England to Contemporary Kathmandu
    Mark Liechty