Class Inequality in the Global City / Global Diversities (PDF)
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In striving to become cosmopolitan, global cities aim to attract highly-skilled workers while relying on a vast underbelly of low-waged, low status migrants. This book tells the story of one such city, revealing how national development produces both aspirations to be cosmopolitan and to improve one's class standing, along with limitations in achieving such aims. Through the analysis of three different groups of workers in Singapore, Ye shows that cosmopolitanism is an exclusive and aspirational construct created through global and national development strategies, transnational migration and individual senses of identity. This dialectic relationship between class and cosmopolitanism is never free from power and is constituted through material and symbolic conditions, struggles and violence. Class is also constituted through 'the self' and lies at the very heart of different constructions of personhood as they intersect with gender, race, sexuality, ethnicity and nationality.
- Autor: J. Ye
- 2016, 1st ed. 2016, 193 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN-10: 1137436158
- ISBN-13: 9781137436153
- Erscheinungsdatum: 29.04.2016
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"At a time of unprecedented global inequalities, Class Inequality in the Global City offers a compelling account of how material and social inequalities are produced at the intersection of global economies, labor migration, and locally grounded class subjectivities, relations and aspirations. Drawing on extended ethnographic research with differently secure and precarious groups of migrant workers, Ye's analysis teases out how the socio-political dynamics of class and cosmopolitanism in Singapore connect to broader processes and geographies. This book's relational approach to theorizing how labor migration and markets, national state aspirations and policies, and workers' diverse class identities, subjectivities, and aspirations express in place yet are always also embedded in the processes/relations that make a 'global' city is deeply important for critical scholars interested in contemporary urban development politics, global economies, labor migration, and relational approaches to poverty and inequality." - Sarah Elwood, University of Washington, USA
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