Considering class : theory, culture and the media in the 21st century / edited by Deirdre O'Neill, Mike Wayne.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

O'Neill, Deirdre, 1956- editor.

Wayne, Mike, editor.

Series:

Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 113.

Studies in critical social sciences, 1573-4234 ; volume 113

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social classes--History.

Social classes.

History.

Social stratification.

Working class--History--21st century.

Working class.

Culture--21st century.

Culture.

Mass media--Social aspects.

Mass media.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 320 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

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.0.

Contents:

Introduction / Deirdre O'Neill and Mike Wayne

Class theory

Class and the classical marxist tradition / Joseph Choonara

Social class and education / Dave Hill

Marxist class theory : competition, contingency and intermediate class positions / Jonathan Pratschke

Class segregation / Danny Dorling

The "secret" of the restoration : increased class exploitation / Maurizio Donato and Roberto Taddeo

Class and culture

Exploitation, oppression, and epistemology / Holly Lewis

Peasants, migrants and self-employed workers : the masks that veil class affiliation in Latin America : the Argentine case / Marina Kabat and Eduardo Sartelli

Capitalism, class and collective identity: social movements and public services in South Africa / Adrian Murray

On intellectuals / Deirdre O'Neill and Mike Wayne

The British working class post-Blair consensus : we do not exist / Lisa Mckenzie

From class solidarity to cultural solidarity : immigration, crises, and the populist right / Ferruh Yilmaz

Recovering the Australian working class / Tony Moore, Mark Gibson and Catharine Lumby

Class and the media

"Everything changes. everything stays the same" : documenting continuity and change in working class lives / Anita Biressi

Ghettos and gated communities in the social landscape of television : representations of class in 1982 and 2015 / Fredrik Stiernstedt and Peter Jakobsson

Class, culture and exploitation : the case of reality tv / Milly Williamson

Class warfare, the neoliberal man and the political economy of methamphetamine in breaking bad / Michael Seltzer

"The thing is i'm actually from bromley" : queer/class intersectionality in pride (2014) / Craig Haslop

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Considering class.

ISBN:

9789004319516

9004319514

OCLC:

1001880105

Publisher Number:

9789004319516