Overview
- Highlights the overlooked complexities in thinking about the ‘New African Middle Class’
- Explores what the concept of a ‘middle class’ should mean in an African context
- Argues there is no single African middle class, but a plurality of middle classes in Africa
Part of the book series: Frontiers of Globalization (FOG)
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This volume challenges the concept of the ‘new African middle class’ with new theoretical and empirical insights into the changing lives in Sub-Saharan Africa. Diverse middle classes are on the rise, but models of class based on experiences from other regions of the world cannot be easily transferred to the African continent. Empirical contributions, drawn from a diverse range of contexts, address both African histories of class formation and the political roles of the continent’s middle classes, and also examine the important interdependencies that cut across inter-generational, urban-rural and class divides. This thought-provoking book argues emphatically for a revision of common notions of the 'middle class', and for the inclusion of insights 'from the South' into the global debate on class.
Middle Classes in Africa will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, as well as NGOs and policy makers with an interest in African societies.
Middle Classes in Africa will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, as well as NGOs and policy makers with an interest in African societies.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part II
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Reviews
“The volume is well structured, offers nuanced questions, and engages with relevant challenges relating to current trends in social formations of African societies.” (Henning Melber, Africa Spectrum, Vol. 53 (1), 2018)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Lena Kroeker is Research Fellow at the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies, University of Bayreuth, Germany
David O’Kane is an Associate of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany
Tabea Scharrer is Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany
David O’Kane is an Associate of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany
Tabea Scharrer is Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Middle Classes in Africa
Book Subtitle: Changing Lives and Conceptual Challenges
Editors: Lena Kroeker, David O'Kane, Tabea Scharrer
Series Title: Frontiers of Globalization
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62148-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-62147-0Published: 01 March 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09674-8Published: 30 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-62148-7Published: 19 February 2018
Series ISSN: 2946-3777
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3785
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 376
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Area Studies, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, African Culture, African Economics, Globalization