The Rise Of An African Middle Class

Author : Henning Melber
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781783607167

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The Rise of Africa's Middle Class by Henning Melber Pdf

Across Africa, a burgeoning middle class has become the poster child for the 'Africa rising' narrative. Ambitious, aspirational and increasingly affluent, this group is said to embody the values and hopes of the new Africa, with international bodies ranging from the United Nations Development Programme to the World Bank regarding them as important agents of both economic development and democratic change. This narrative, however, obscures the complex and often ambiguous role that this group actually plays in African societies. Bringing together economists, political scientists, anthropologists and development experts, and spanning a variety of case studies from across the continent, this collection provides a much-needed corrective to the received wisdom within development circles, and provides a fresh perspective on social transformations in contemporary Africa.

Author : Henning Melber
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783607150

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The Rise of Africa's Middle Class by Henning Melber Pdf

Across Africa, a burgeoning middle class has become the poster child for the 'Africa rising' narrative. Ambitious, aspirational and increasingly affluent, this group is said to embody the values and hopes of the new Africa, with international bodies ranging from the United Nations Development Programme to the World Bank regarding them as important agents of both economic development and democratic change. This narrative, however, obscures the complex and often ambiguous role that this group actually plays in African societies. Bringing together economists, political scientists, anthropologists and development experts, and spanning a variety of case studies from across the continent, this collection provides a much-needed corrective to the received wisdom within development circles, and provides a fresh perspective on social transformations in contemporary Africa.

Author : Michael O. West
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2002-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0253215242

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The Rise of an African Middle Class by Michael O. West Pdf

"Offers an extremely sophisticated, nuanced view of the social and political construction of an African middle class in colonial Zimbabwe." —Elizabeth Schmidt Tracing their quest for social recognition from the time of Cecil Rhodes to Rhodesia's unilateral declaration of independence, Michael O. West shows how some Africans were able to avail themselves of scarce educational and social opportunities in order to achieve some degree of upward mobility in a society that was hostile to their ambitions. Though relatively few in number and not rich by colonial standards, this comparatively better class of Africans challenged individual and social barriers imposed by colonialism to become the locus of protest against European domination. This extensive and original book opens new perspective into relations between colonizers and colonized in colonial Zimbabwe.

Author : Mthuli Ncube,Charles Lufumpa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317634546

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The Emerging Middle Class in Africa by Mthuli Ncube,Charles Lufumpa Pdf

The emergence of the African middle class as a driver of Africa’s economic growth stands out as an important milestone in Africa’s contemporary economic history. This growth, though uneven, is a source of hope for Africa, but also a signal to the rest of the world on the prospects for economic recovery and renewal, particularly because it has been steady despite the global downturn. The Emerging Middle Class in Africa analyses specific aspects of the lives of the middle class in Africa. It looks at how people become and remain in the middle class through a series of thematic chapters. It examines how behaviour changes in the process, in terms of consumption patterns and spending on health and education. A further dimension of this analysis is how class impacts on gender relations and whether women are able to reap the same benefits of social advancement available to men. Africa is a continent of such scale and diversity that experiences across countries vary widely. The book thus captures the common patterns across the continent. This text is primarily aimed at Africanist researchers, policy makers, development practitioners, and bilateral and multilateral institutions, as well as students of African studies, political science, political economy, development studies, and development economics.

Author : Roger Southall
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781847011435

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The New Black Middle Class in South Africa by Roger Southall Pdf

Provides the most comprehensive account since the early 1960s of South Africa's black middle class.

Author : Lena Kroeker,David O'Kane,Tabea Scharrer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319621487

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Middle Classes in Africa by Lena Kroeker,David O'Kane,Tabea Scharrer Pdf

​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.

Author : Jason Sumich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108472883

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The Middle Class in Mozambique by Jason Sumich Pdf

Introduction -- Origins -- Asendance -- Collapse -- Democracy -- Decay -- 2016, concluding thoughts

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264150348

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Under Pressure: The Squeezed Middle Class by OECD Pdf

Middle-class households feel left behind and have questioned the benefits of economic globalisation.

Author : Henning Melber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1783607173

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The Rise of Africa's Middle Class by Henning Melber Pdf

The first comprehensive volume to offer a critical perspective on the role of the new middle classes in contemporary Africa.

Author : Rachel Spronk
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857454799

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Ambiguous Pleasures by Rachel Spronk Pdf

Among both male and female young urban professionals in Nairobi, sexuality is a key to achieving a 'modern' identity. These young men and women see themselves as the avant garde of a new Africa, while they also express the recurring worry of how to combine an 'African' identity with the new lifestyles with which they are experimenting. By focusing on public debates and their preoccupations with issues of African heritage, gerontocratic power relations and conventional morality on the one hand, and personal sexual relationships, intimacy and self-perceptions on the other, this study works out the complexities of sexuality and culture in the context of modernity in an African society. It moves beyond an investigation of a health or development perspective of sexuality and instead examines desire, pleasure and eroticism, revealing new insights into the methodology and theory of the study of sexuality within the social sciences. Sexuality serves as a prism for analysing how social developments generate new notions of self in postcolonial Kenya and is a crucial component towards understanding the way people recognize and deal with modern changes in their personal lives.

Author : Relli Shechter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108474481

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The Rise of the Egyptian Middle Class by Relli Shechter Pdf

Examines the results of the Middle Eastern oil boom of the 1970s-80s on the Egyptian economy and how this economic growth has an impact on Egyptian society.

Author : Mary Pattillo
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226021225

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Black Picket Fences by Mary Pattillo Pdf

First published in 1999, Mary Pattillo’s Black Picket Fences explores an American demographic group too often ignored by both scholars and the media: the black middle class. Nearly fifteen years later, this book remains a groundbreaking study of a group still underrepresented in the academic and public spheres. The result of living for three years in “Groveland,” a black middle-class neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side, Black Picket Fences explored both the advantages the black middle class has and the boundaries they still face. Despite arguments that race no longer matters, Pattillo showed a different reality, one where black and white middle classes remain separate and unequal. Stark, moving, and still timely, the book is updated for this edition with a new epilogue by the author that details how the neighborhood and its residents fared in the recession of 2008, as well as new interviews with many of the same neighborhood residents featured in the original. Also included is a new foreword by acclaimed University of Pennsylvania sociologist Annette Lareau.

Author : Christof Dejung,David Motadel,Jürgen Osterhammel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691195834

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The Global Bourgeoisie by Christof Dejung,David Motadel,Jürgen Osterhammel Pdf

This essay collection presents a global history of the middle class and its rise around the world during the age of empire. It compares middle-class formation in various regions, highlighting differences and similarities, and assesses the extent to which bourgeois growth was tied to the increasing exchange of ideas and goods and was a result of international connections and entanglements. Grouped by theme, the book shows how bourgeois values can shape the liberal world order.

Author : E. Franklin Frazier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Middle class African Americans
ISBN : OCLC:1167663889

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Black Bourgeoisie by E. Franklin Frazier Pdf

Author : Lawrence Samuel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134624683

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The American Middle Class by Lawrence Samuel Pdf

The middle class is often viewed as the heart of American society, the key to the country’s democracy and prosperity. Most Americans believe they belong to this group, and few politicians can hope to be elected without promising to serve the middle class. Yet today the American middle class is increasingly seen as under threat. In The American Middle Class: A Cultural History, Lawrence R. Samuel charts the rise and fall of this most definitive American population, from its triumphant emergence in the post-World War II years to the struggles of the present day. Between the 1920s and the 1950s, powerful economic, social, and political factors worked together in the U.S. to forge what many historians consider to be the first genuine mass middle class in history. But from the cultural convulsions of the 1960s, to the 'stagflation' of the 1970s, to Reaganomics in the 1980s, this segment of the population has been under severe stress. Drawing on a rich array of voices from the past half-century, The American Middle Class explores how the middle class, and ideas about it, have changed over time, including the distinct story of the black middle class. Placing the current crisis of the middle class in historical perspective, Samuel shows how the roots of middle-class troubles reach back to the cultural upheaval of the 1960s. The American Middle Class takes a long look at how the middle class has been winnowed away and reveals how, even in the face of this erosion, the image of the enduring middle class remains the heart and soul of the United States.