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We Have Never Been Middle Class - Couverture rigide

Weiss, Hadas

 
9781788733915: We Have Never Been Middle Class
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1788733916 ISBN 13 : 9781788733915
Editeur : Verso Books, 2019

Synopsis

Taking apart the ideology of the "middle class" Tidings of a shrinking middle class in one part of the world and its expansion in another absorb our attention, but seldom do we question the category itself. We Have Never Been Middle Class proposes that the middle class is an ideology. Tracing this ideology up to the age of financialization, it exposes the fallacy in the belief that we can all ascend or descend as a result of our aspirational and precautionary investments in property and education. Ethnographic accounts from Germany, Israel, the USA and elsewhere illustrate how this belief orients us, in our private lives as much as in our politics, toward accumulation-enhancing yet self-undermining goals. This original meshing of anthropology and critical theory elucidates capitalism by way of its archetypal actors.

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À propos de l'auteur

Hadas Weiss is an anthropologist based at the Madrid Institute for Advanced Study

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Éditeur
Verso Books
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1788733916
ISBN 13 
9781788733915
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
176
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