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Elite mobilities / edited by Thomas Birtchnell and Javier Caletrio.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Changing Mobilities
- Changing mobilities
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Elite (Social sciences).
- Emigration and immigration.
- Globalization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (284 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Small in number but great in influence, mobile elites have shaped the contours of global capitalism. Today these elites continue to flourish globally but in a changing landscape. The current economic crisis-and rising concerns about the moral legitimacy of extreme wealth-coincides with stern warnings over the risks posed by climate change and the unsustainable use of resources. Often an out-of-bounds topic in critical social science, elites are thought of as too inaccessible a group to interview and too variable a minority to measure.This groundbreaking collection sets out to challenge this pe
- Contents:
- Cover; Elite Mobilities; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: the movement of the few; 2 Elsewhere: tracking the mobile lives of globals; 3 Wealth segmentation and the mobilities of the super-rich: a conceptual framework; 4 Elite formation in the third industrial revolution; 5 Aeromobile elites: private business aviation and the global economy; 6 Super-rich lifestyles; 7 The ease of mobility; 8 The uneven pragmatics of "affordable" luxury tourism in inland Yucatán (Mexico)
- 9 Visible-invisible: the social semiotics of labour in luxury tourism10 'This is not me': conspicuous consumption and the travel aspirations of the European middle classes; 11 Tracing the super-rich and their mobilities in a Scandinavian welfare state; 12 The super-rich and offshore worlds; 13 Epilogue: the bodies, spaces and tempo of elite formations; 14 Postscript: elite mobilities and critique; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-138-09377-7
- 1-136-15541-4
- 0-203-07853-5
- 1-136-15542-2
- 9780203078532
- OCLC:
- 870590253
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