Overview

Considering Class: Theory, Culture and Media in the 21st Centuryoffers the reader international and interdisciplinary perspectives on the importance of class analysis in the 21st century. Political economists, sociologists, educationalists, ethnographers, cultural and media analysts have contributed to this volume to provide a multi-dimensional account of current class dynamics. The crisis consists precisely in the gap between the objective reality and efficacy of class forces shaping international politics and the relative paucity of class consciousness at a popular level and appreciation of class as an explanatory optic at a theoretical level. This important book shows why the process of reconstructing class consciousness must also take place on the ground of cultural and subjective formation where everyday values, habits and media practices are in play. Contributors are: Anita Biressi, Joseph Choonara, Maurizio Donato, Danny Dorling, Mark Gibson, Craig Haslop, Dave Hill, Peter Jakobsson, Marina Kabat, Holly Lewis, Catherine Lumby, Lisa Mckenzie, Tony Moore, Adrian Murray, Deirdre O'Neill, Jonathan Pratschke, Michael Seltzer, Eduardo Sartelli, Fredrik Stiernstedt, Roberto Taddeo, Mike Wayne, Milly Williamson, Ferruh Ylmaz.

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Author:   Mike Wayne ,  Deirde O'Neill
Publisher:   Haymarket Books
Imprint:   Haymarket Books
Volume:   113
ISBN:  

9781608461035

ISBN 10:   1608461033
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   15 January 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors i 1 Introduction  Deirdre O’Neill and Mike Wayne Part 1: Class Theory 2 Class and the Classical Marxist Tradition  Joseph Choonara 3 Social Class and Education  Dave Hill 4 Marxist Class Theory: Competition, Contingency and Intermediate Class Positions  Jonathan Pratschke 5 Class Segregation   Danny Dorling 6 The ‘Secret’ of the Restoration: Increased Class Exploitation  Maurizio Donato and Roberto Taddeo Part 2: Class and Culture 7 Exploitation, Oppression, and Epistemology  Holly Lewis 8 Peasants, Migrants and Self-Employed Workers: The Masks that Veil Class Affiliation in Latin America: The Argentine Case  Marina Kabat and Eduardo Sartelli 9 Capitalism, Class and Collective Identity: Social Movements and Public Services in South Africa  Adrian Murray 10 On Intellectuals  Deirdre O’Neill and Mike Wayne 11 The British Working Class Post-blair Consensus: We Do Not Exist  Lisa Mckenzie 12 From Class Solidarity to Cultural Solidarity: Immigration, Crises, and the Populist Right  Ferruh Yilmaz 13 Recovering the Australian Working Class  Tony Moore, Mark Gibson and Catharine Lumby Part 3: Class and the Media 14 ‘Everything Changes. Everything Stays the Same’: Documenting Continuity and Change in Working Class Lives  Anita Biressi 15 Ghettos and Gated Communities in the Social Landscape of Television: Representations of Class in 1982 and 2015  Fredrik Stiernstedt and Peter Jakobsson 16 Class, Culture and Exploitation: The Case of Reality tv   Milly Williamson 17 Class Warfare, the Neoliberal Man and the Political Economy of Methamphetamine in Breaking Bad   Michael Seltzer 18 ‘The Thing Is I’m Actually from Bromley’: Queer/Class Intersectionality in Pride (2014)  Craig Haslop Index

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Deirdre O'Neillis a working class lecturer and filmmaker. Her forthcoming bookFilm as a Radical Pedagogic Toolexplores the way in which film can be used as a means of working class people representing their own lives. (Bloomsbury, 2014).

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