Big Capital in an Unequal World

The Micropolitics of Wealth in Pakistan

Rosita Armytage (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

206 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-633-7 (ISBN)

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Inside the hidden lives of the global “1%”, this book examines the networks, social practices, marriages, and machinations of Pakistan’s elite.

Benefitting from rare access and keen analytical insight, Rosita Armytage’s rich study 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.

Rosita Armytage is an anthropologist and political scientist specialising in global development, governance reform and social class. She currently advises the Australian Government on aid effectiveness and development strategy in Cambodia.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	20.12.2022
Reihe/Serie	Dislocations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	1-80073-633-9 / 1800736339
ISBN-13	978-1-80073-633-7 / 9781800736337
Zustand	Neuware