The Global Middle Classes

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

Epistemology · Ethnography · Middle class · Middle East · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Cross-cultural studies · Ethnology