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Book SynopsisConsidering 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 have contributed to this volume to provide a multi-dimensional account of current class dynamics.
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1 Introduction
Deirdre O’Neill and Mike Wayne Part 1: Class Theory
2 Class and the Classical Marxist Tradition
Joseph Choonara3 Social Class and Education
Dave Hill4 Marxist Class Theory: Competition, Contingency and Intermediate Class Positions
Jonathan Pratschke5 Class Segregation
Danny Dorling6 The ‘Secret’ of the Restoration: Increased Class Exploitation
Maurizio Donato and Roberto Taddeo Part 2: Class and Culture
7 Exploitation, Oppression, and Epistemology
Holly Lewis8 Peasants, Migrants and Self-Employed Workers: The Masks that Veil Class Affiliation in Latin America: The Argentine Case
Marina Kabat and Eduardo Sartelli9 Capitalism, Class and Collective Identity: Social Movements and Public Services in South Africa
Adrian Murray10 On Intellectuals
Deirdre O’Neill and Mike Wayne11 The British Working Class Post-blair Consensus: We Do Not Exist
Lisa Mckenzie12 From Class Solidarity to Cultural Solidarity: Immigration, Crises, and the Populist Right
Ferruh Yilmaz13 Recovering the Australian Working Class
Tony Moore, Mark Gibson and Catharine Lumby Part 3: Class and the Media
14 ‘Everything Changes. Everything Stays the Same’: Documenting Continuity and Change in Working Class Lives
Anita Biressi15 Ghettos and Gated Communities in the Social Landscape of Television: Representations of Class in 1982 and 2015
Fredrik Stiernstedt and Peter Jakobsson16 Class, Culture and Exploitation: The Case of Reality tv
Milly Williamson17 Class Warfare, the Neoliberal Man and the Political Economy of Methamphetamine in Breaking Bad
Michael Seltzer18 ‘The Thing Is I’m Actually from Bromley’: Queer/Class Intersectionality in Pride (2014)
Craig HaslopIndex
