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Middle Class Identities and Social Crisis Cultural and Political Perspectives on the ‘Global Rebellion’
This book explores the dynamics of the "middle-class global rebellion" born of the frustration at declining living standards. Addressing narratives constructed by different social and political agents and groups, it examines contexts of social crisis in Latin America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania, understanding the middle classes as a set of complex and conflicting political relationships. With attention to the manner in which people create "situated habits", consolidating new expectations and desires through a concrete biography, it analyzes continuities and changes in classed self-perceptions based on performative use.
With new perspectives, including historical and intersectional approaches, Middle Class Identities and Social Crisis transcends disciplinary boundaries to explore the hybridity of research methods and techniques and challenge established analytical frameworks. It will therefore appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in class and questions of class identity.
Introduction. Configuring the Middle Class
Alejandro Grimson, Menara Guizardi, and Silvina Merenson
- Unequal and Divided: The Middle Classes in Contemporary Brazil
- Middle Sectors and Classes in Colombia: Confluences and Contrasts between Bogota and Tumaco
- Middle-Class Political and Cultural Subjectivities in the Chilean Social Outburst: Meritocracy, Social Justice, and Malaise
- The Middle Classes in Bolivia: "Not a Good Idea"?
- The Russian Middle Class: A Sociological Observation
- The Middle Class in Portugal and Brazil: From Consent to Rebellion (2011-2013)
- Political Struggles and the Transformation of the Conservative Middle Class in Turkey
- Searching for a Global Middle Class in Nairobi and Berlin
- Surveillance and the Selva? Digital Middle-Class Identities in Angola and across the South Atlantic
- The Malaise of the Chinese Middle Class
- 'Middle-class' Educational Strategies and Right-wing Politics in Australia: From Conflict to Consensus?
Sérgio Costa
Eduardo Restrepo
María-Luisa Méndez and Modesto Gayo
Amaru Villanueva Rance, Eduardo Paz Gonzales, and Susanna Rance
Jouko Nikula, Mikhail Chernysh, and Harri Melin
Elísio Estanque
Aksu Akçaoğlu
Gunter Weidenhaus and Eva Korte
Jess Auerbach
Jean-Louis Rocca
Joel Windle
Biography
Alejandro Grimson is full researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research and Full Professor in the Interdisciplinary School of Higher Social Studies at the National University of San Martín, Argentina.
Menara Guizardi is an adjunct researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research and at the Interdisciplinary School of Higher Social Studies at the National University of San Martín, Argentina and associate researcher at the University of Tarapacá, Chile.
Silvina Merenson is an adjunct researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research and adjunct professor in the School of Higher Social Studies at the National University of San Martín, Argentina.