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The Global Middle Classes: Theorizing Through Ethnography

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Edited by Rachel Heiman, Carla Freeman, and Mark Liechty
2012
Published by: SAR Press
Series: Advanced Seminar
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This volume brings together ethnographers who have been doing research on the middle classes in a range of nation-states spanning the globe from Barbados, China, and Egypt to Hungary, India, and Indonesia, from Mexico and Nepal to the United States.

Table of Contents

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Cover

Title page, Contributors page, Copyright

pp. 2-7

Contents

pp. 8-9

List of Figures

pp. 10-13

1. Introduction

pp. 14-41

2. Living in the Future Tense

pp. 42-67

3. National Identity, Bedrooms, and Kitchens

pp. 68-95

4. Neoliberal Respectability

pp. 96-127

5. The Postsocialist Middle Classes and the New “Family House” in Hungary

pp. 128-155

6. Women in the Middle

pp. 156-179

7. Just Managing

pp. 180-199

8. A Middle-Class Public at Mexico’s Northern Border

pp. 200-223

9. Private Homes, Distinct Lifestyles

pp. 224-247

10. Gate Expectations

pp. 248-281

11. Middle-Class Déjà Vu

pp. 282-311

References

pp. 312-349

Index

pp. 350-359

Other titles in the Advanced Seminar Series

pp. 360-364

Participants

pp. 365-365
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