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Big capital in an unequal world : the micropolitics of wealth in Pakistan / Rosita Armytage.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Armytage, Rosita, author.
- Series:
- Dislocations ; v. 29.
- Dislocations ; Volume 29
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wealth--Pakistan.
- Wealth.
- Rich people--Pakistan.
- Rich people.
- Pakistan--Economic conditions.
- Pakistan.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 195 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, [2020]
- Summary:
- "Following the hidden lives of the global "1%", this book examines the networks, social practices, marriages, and machinations of the elite in Pakistan. In doing so, it reveals the daily, even mundane, ways in which elites contribute to and shape the inequality that characterizes the modern world. Operating in a rapidly developing economic environment, the experience of Pakistan's wealthiest and most powerful members contradicts widely held assumptions that economic growth is leading to increasingly impersonalized and globally standardized economic and political structures."--Provided by vendor.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- DISLOCATIONS
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Note on Anonymity
- Introduction.
- Chapter 1. Middle-Class Woman in an Elite Man’s World
- Chapter 2. Creating and Protecting an Elite Class
- Chapter 3. Old Money, New Money
- Chapter 4. Making an Elite Family
- Chapter 5. The Elite Network
- Chapter 6. The Culture of Exemptions
- Conclusion.
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-83695-998-2
- 1-78920-617-0
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