Skip to main content

CURRENTLY SOLD OUT

Whatever Happened to Class?: Reflections from South Asia by Rina Agarwala, Ronald J. Herring (Hardcover, 2008)

About this product

About this product

Product Information

Class explains much in the differentiation of life chances and political dynamics in South Asia; scholarship from the region contributed much to class analysis. Yet class has lost its previous centrality as a way of understanding the world and how it changes. This outcome is puzzling; new configurations of global economic forces and policy have widened gaps between classes and across sectors and regions, altered people's relations to production, and produced new state-citizen relations. Does market triumphalism or increased salience of identity politics render class irrelevant? Has rapid growth in aggregate wealth obviated long-standing questions of inequality and poverty? Explanations for what happened to class vary, from intellectual fads to global transformations of interests. The authors ask what is lost in the move away from class, and what South Asian experiences tell us about the limits of class analysis. Empirical chapters examine formal and informal-sector labor, social movements against genetic engineering, and politics of the new middle class. A unifying analytical concern is specifying conditions under which interests of those disadvantaged by class systems are immobilized, diffused, coopted -- or autonomously recognized and acted upon politically: the problematic transition of classes in themselves to classes for themselves.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN-13
9780415454681
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96498290

Product Key Features

Subject Area
Regional History
Author
Rina Agarwala, Ronald J. Herring
Publication Name
Whatever Happened to Class?: Reflections from South Asia
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Type
Study Guide
Number of Pages
240 Pages

Dimensions

Item Weight
499g

Additional Product Features

Editor
Rina Agarwala, Ronald J. Herring
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

Best Selling in School Textbooks & Study Guides

Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Best Selling in School Textbooks & Study Guides

Self-Made Man: My Year Disguised as a Man by Norah Vincent (Paperback, 2006)
No ratings or reviews yet.
AU $25.45 New
---- Used
Conversations with Nostradamus: Volume 2: His Prophecies Explained by Dolores Cannon (Paperback, 1992)
No ratings or reviews yet.
AU $35.59 New
---- Used
The Big Book of Catapult and Trebuchet Plans! by Ron L Toms (Paperback, 2010)
4.5 out of 5 stars based on 2 product ratings
AU $30.45 New
---- Used
Tracks, Scats and Other Traces: Reissue by Barbara Triggs (Paperback, 2004)
4.9 out of 5 stars based on 7 product ratings
AU $54.89 New
AU $50.00 Used
Quantum Entanglement for Babies by Chris Ferrie (Board Book, 2017)
No ratings or reviews yet.
AU $24.60 New
---- Used

Save on School Textbooks & Study Guides

Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Save on School Textbooks & Study Guides

Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabb
AU $46.10
Trending at AU $53.64
Bindi: Winner of the Daisy Utemorrah Award by Kirli Saunders (Paperback) FREE Sh
AU $20.95
Trending at AU $26.52
Powerless: Tiktok Made Me Buy It! an Epic and Sizzling Fantasy Romance Not
AU $18.39
Trending at AU $20.22
The Meateater Fish and Game Cookbook: Recipes and Techniques for Every Hunter an
AU $54.99
Trending at AU $58.99

You may also like

Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- You may also like