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Whatever Happened to Class? - Reflections from South Asia (Paperback)
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Whatever Happened to Class? - Reflections from South Asia (Paperback)
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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,
co-opted or autonomously recognized and acted upon politically: the
problematic transition of classes in themselves to classes for
themselves.
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