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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Table of contents(14 chapters)
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Part II
About this book
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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Editors and Affiliations
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Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies, Bayreuth, Germany
Lena Kroeker
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Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany
David O'Kane, Tabea Scharrer
About the editors
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