1st Edition

Middle Class Identities and Social Crisis Cultural and Political Perspectives on the ‘Global Rebellion’

248 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

248 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

248 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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.... Read more

Introduction. Configuring the Middle Class

Alejandro Grimson, Menara Guizardi, and Silvina Merenson

  1. Unequal and Divided: The Middle Classes in Contemporary Brazil
  2. Sérgio Costa

  3. Middle Sectors and Classes in Colombia: Confluences and Contrasts between Bogota and Tumaco
  4. Eduardo Restrepo

  5. Middle-Class Political and Cultural Subjectivities in the Chilean Social Outburst: Meritocracy, Social Justice, and Malaise
  6. María-Luisa Méndez and Modesto Gayo

  7. The Middle Classes in Bolivia: "Not a Good Idea"?
  8. Amaru Villanueva Rance, Eduardo Paz Gonzales, and Susanna Rance

  9. The Russian Middle Class: A Sociological Observation
  10. Jouko Nikula, Mikhail Chernysh, and Harri Melin

  11. The Middle Class in Portugal and Brazil: From Consent to Rebellion (2011-2013)
  12. Elísio Estanque

  13. Political Struggles and the Transformation of the Conservative Middle Class in Turkey
  14. Aksu Akçaoğlu

  15. Searching for a Global Middle Class in Nairobi and Berlin
  16. Gunter Weidenhaus and Eva Korte

  17. Surveillance and the Selva? Digital Middle-Class Identities in Angola and across the South Atlantic
  18. Jess Auerbach

  19. The Malaise of the Chinese Middle Class
  20. Jean-Louis Rocca

  21. 'Middle-class' Educational Strategies and Right-wing Politics in Australia: From Conflict to Consensus?

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.