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Title Considering class : theory, culture and the media in the 21st century / edited by Deirdre O'Neill, Mike Wayne
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 320 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps
Series Studies in critical social sciences, 1573-4234 ; volume 113
Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 113.
Contents 1. Introduction / Deirdre O'Neill and Mike Wayne -- 2. Class and the classical marxist tradition / Joseph Choonara -- 3. Social class and education / Dave Hill -- 4. Marxist class theory : competition, contingency and intermediate class positions / Jonathan Pratschke -- 5. Class segregation / Danny Dorling -- 6. The "secret" of the restoration : increased class exploitation / Maurizio Donato and Roberto Taddeo -- 7. Exploitation, oppression, and epistemology / Holly Lewis -- 8. Peasants, migrants and self-employed workers : the masks that veil class affiliation in Latin America : the Argentine case / Marina Kabat and Eduardo Sartelli -- 9. Capitalism, class and collective identity : social movements and public services in South Africa / Adrian Murray -- 10. On intellectuals / Deirdre O'Neill and Mike Wayne -- 11. The British working class post-Blair consensus : we do not exist / Lisa Mckenzie -- 12. From class solidarity to cultural solidarity : immigration, crises, and the populist right / Ferruh Yilmaz -- 13. Recovering the Australian working class / Tony Moore, Mark Gibson and Catharine Lumby -- 14. "Everything changes. Everything stays the same" : documenting continuity and change in working class lives / Anita Biressi -- 15. Ghettos and gated communities in the social landscape of television : representations of class in 1982 and 2015 / Fredrik Stiernstedt and Peter Jakobsson -- 16. Class, culture and exploitation : the case of reality TV / Milly Williamson -- 17. Class warfare, the neoliberal man and the political economy of methamphetamine in Breaking Bad / Michael Seltzer -- 18. "The thing is I'm actually from Bromley" : queer/class intersectionality in Pride (2014) / Craig Haslop -- Index
Summary Considering Class: Theory, Culture and Media in the 21st Century' offers the reader international and interdisciplinary perspectives on the importance of class analysis in the 21st century. Political economists, sociologists, educationalists, ethnographers, cultural and media analysts, combine to provide a multi-dimensional account of current class dynamics. The crisis consists precisely in the gap between the objective reality and efficacy of class forces shaping international politics and the relative paucity of class-consciousness at a popular level and appreciation of class as an explanatory optic at a theoretical level. This important book shows why the process of reconstructing class consciousness must also take place on the ground of cultural and subjective formation where everyday values, habits and media practices are in play
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Social classes -- History
Social stratification.
Working class -- History -- 21st century
Culture -- 21st century
Mass media -- Social aspects.
social stratification.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Working class
Social stratification
Social classes
Mass media -- Social aspects
Culture
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author O'Neill, Deirdre, 1956- editor.
Wayne, Mike, editor
LC no. 2017043062
ISBN 9789004319523
9004319522