Big Capital in an Unequal World

The Micropolitics of Wealth in Pakistan
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78920-616-6
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 29, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 459 g

Reihe: Dislocations

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Armytage, Rosita

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaften einzelner Länder und Regionen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Materielle Kultur, Wirtschaftsethnologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wohlfahrtsökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Note on Anonymity

Introduction: Making Money in an Unequal and Unstable World

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: What Pakistan’s Elite Reveals About Global Capitalism

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Armytage, Rosita
Rosita Armytage is an anthropologist specialising in elites, social class, capitalism, and global development. Her recent publications include ‘Elite ethnography in an insecure place: The methodological implications of “studying up” in Pakistan’, Focaal - Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology (2018).