Middle Class Identities and Social Crisis

✍ Scribed by Alejandro Grimson (editor), Menara Guizardi (editor), Silvina Merenson (editor)

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Tongue: English
Leaves: 249
Series: Entangled Inequalities: Exploring Global Asymmetries
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Figures
Tables
Contributors
Introduction: Configuring the Middle Class
Setting the Scene
On Global Crises and Rebellions
Theoretical Contours
The Volume and Its Analytical Contributions
Notes
References
1. Unequal and Divided: The Middle Classes in Contemporary Brazil
Introduction
Class Situation and Political Articulation
Social Classes and Political Subjects
Class Situation
Recent Fluctuations in the Class Situation of Brazilian Middle Classes
The PT Era (2003-2014/2016)
The Right-Wing Backlash (2016-2022)
Heterogeneity and Volatility of Middle-Classes' Class Situation
Articulations of the Middle Classes as Political Subjects
Interpretations of the Brazilian Crisis
Intersectional Articulations of the Middle Classes
Conclusion
Notes
References
2. Middle Sectors and Classes in Colombia: Confluences and Contrasts between Bogota and Tumaco
Introduction
From the Middle "Classes" to the "Sectors"
Bogotá: "Enclassed" Strata
Tumaco: "Enclassed" Ethics and Esthetics
Conclusion
Notes
References
3. Middle-Class Political and Cultural Subjectivities in the Chilean Social Outburst: Meritocracy, Social Justice, and Malaise
Introduction
Fragmented Feelings of (In)Justice
Acting Out Malaise
The Socio-Economic and Political Structure of a Heterogeneous Class
Cultural Subjectivities and Middle Classness in the Making
Notes
References
4. The Middle Classes in Bolivia: "Not a Good Idea"?
Introduction
Poverty Reduction and the Emergence of the Middle Class
"Poor" and Middle-Income Strata: Where to Draw the Line?
Middle-Class Identities
Social Ascent, between Changes and Continuities
The Middle Class as a Policy Objective
After the Fall of Evo Morales
Conclusion
Notes
References
5. The Russian Middle Class: A Sociological Observation
Introduction
Analyzing the Middle Class(es)
The Consumer Middle Class in Russia
The Russian Middle Class According to Wright's Criteria
The Middle Class as a Policy Objective
Conclusion
Note
References
6. The Middle Class in Portugal and Brazil: From Consent to Rebellion (2011-2013)
Introduction
A Cycle of Global Protest: Revolution and Action
Individualism and Precariousness
The Portuguese Case
A New Cycle of Protests
The Brazilian Case
The June 2013 Social Rebellions
Conclusion
Notes
References
7. Political Struggles and the Transformation of the Conservative Middle Class in Turkey
Introduction
Republican Revolutions and Conservative Opposition
Islamist Movement and Oppositional Lifestyles
The Legitimacy Problem of Islamist Opposition and the Birth of AKP
The Rule of AKP and the Reconstruction of the Conservative Middlebrow Taste
Conclusion
Notes
References
8. Searching for a Global Middle Class in Nairobi and Berlin
Introduction
The Conceptual Debate
Economic Definitions
Cultural Definition
Methodology
Lifestyle Homologies and Differences
Urban-Rural Connections and Divisions
Globalized Self?
Emerging Reflections
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
9. Surveillance and the Selva? Digital Middle-Class Identities in Angola and across the South Atlantic
Introduction: Reindeer in Angola
The Danger of a Single Nation
Navigating the South Atlantic
Making Class through Screens
Conclusion: Surveillance and the Selva?
Notes
References
10. The Malaise of the Chinese Middle Class
Introduction
The Emergence of the Middle Class
A State of Anxiety: The Middle-Class Trap
Reproduction of Class
Exceptionality
The Chinese Middle Class Protesting on the Social Networks
Why Does the New Generation Want to "Lie Flat"?
Avoiding Politics?
Notes
References
11. 'Middle-Class' Educational Strategies and Right-Wing Politics in Australia: From Conflict to Consensus?
Introduction
Social Restriction as a Fault-Line for Educational Crises
The State Aid Crisis
The Educational Standards Crisis
The COVID-19 Crisis
Conclusion
Note
References
Index

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