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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (3): 185–199.
Published: 01 August 2015
... in the postbubble 90s but in earlier decades, during the heyday of the so-called general middle-class society ( ichioku sōchūryū shakai ). © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Feminine Aspiration, Feminine Malaise: Kirino Natsuo’s Grotesque and the Tōden OL Debates...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (3): 145–168.
Published: 01 August 2021
... as a politico-cultural strategy in the context of a Southern European society such as Spain's? My underlying hypothesis is that the emergence of populism—whether left- or right-wing, though I will focus on its appearance on the left—is closely related to the precarization of the middle class. Though populism...
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boundary 2 (2008) 35 (2): 75–91.
Published: 01 May 2008
... missing in today’s China. Social inequality and social tensions are the inevitable result, since there is still no political safety valve called the middle strata to balance the highly stratified society with the newly emerging working class. As Li Qiang, a leading sociologist...
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boundary 2 (2007) 34 (1): 79–113.
Published: 01 February 2007
... to generate a cosmopolitan civilized and humane society through hyperdevelopment. But what is most troubling about the instrumentalization of FDWs is its implications for international feminist solidarity. I have already noted how the consolidation of middle-class liberal feminism...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (1): 201–213.
Published: 01 February 2020
... the middle- class and highly cultured Miranda. Miranda, less polite than Forster s Schlegel sisters, is openly contemptuous of him and his pretensions and does not hide her sense of cultural superiority in general. She dies in cap- tivity. What is the moral of this story, assuming it has one? A plague o...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (2): 71–89.
Published: 01 May 2020
... Jones Gareth . 1984 . Outcast London: A Study in the Relationship Between Classes in Victorian Society . New York : Pantheon . Stedman Jones Gareth . 2004 . An End to Poverty? A Historical Debate . London : Profile . Swenson James . 2009 . “ Style indirect libre...
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (1): 167–206.
Published: 01 February 2012
... of the popular classes and the middle class. However, in Europe and the United States, it is not so, because society benefits from the imperialist rent. The imperialist rent is not just 184”boundary 2 / Spring 2012 superprofit for monopolies; it has a social influence...
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boundary 2 (2016) 43 (3): 313–335.
Published: 01 August 2016
... and the need to know these societies that are called an Ummah [Arab Nation Turning their gazes inward from nation to class, these young intellectuals saw in Marxist theory and practice the answer to their desire to know, and the appropriate tool to effect the revolutionary transformations...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (2): 1–11.
Published: 01 May 2015
... of Ataturk were meant to infuse West- ern values and manners into Turkish society. Western ways of dressing were encouraged (and quite warmly embraced by urban middle classes); the Latin alphabet was adopted; the calendar, holidays, and so forth were rearranged according to Western norms. At the same...
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boundary 2 (2001) 28 (1): 153–194.
Published: 01 February 2001
... from which the antiracist discourses of the civil rights movement derive, and their educational (generally in the sciences) and career paths often bypass the arenas where the politics of race is engaged in a sustained way. This is not to suggest that middle-class Asian Americans are no longer...
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boundary 2 (2007) 34 (2): 171–186.
Published: 01 May 2007
...? This is one of the most complicated and difficult issues in South Africa, and it shapes many critical areas of South African society: the economy, the debate about who is an African, and the current relationship between race and class in postapartheid society. Black Empowerment...
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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (1): 181–200.
Published: 01 February 2018
..., as Moira Casey puts it, “the injustice of economic opportu- nities . . . promised to the middle and working classes in Ireland for years, but in reality [not] achievable by most” (2014: 101). In constructing their cultural responses to the crisis, McCann and Barry extend the Irish imagi- native...
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boundary 2 (2005) 32 (1): 131–189.
Published: 01 February 2005
... for international/domestic-elite pressure on the state will not remain primary forever. We cannot necessarily expect the old colonial sub- ject transformed into the new domestic middle-class urban radical, defined as ‘‘below’’ by Risse, Ropp, and Sikkink and by metropolitan Human Rights in general, to engage...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (1): 165–205.
Published: 01 February 2023
... of all generations, including now-famous matriarchs in their seventies and eighties, emerged from their homes in a working- and lower-middle-class neighborhood called Shaheen Bagh (or Falcon Park), children and grandchildren (including toddlers and infants) in tow in the midst of a Delhi winter, and took...
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boundary 2 (2008) 35 (3): 133–187.
Published: 01 August 2008
... transnational migrant laboring classgenerates contradictions that also contribute to the incoherence of organizations, if not actually to their disorganization. Besides, as Jameson argues in the essay mentioned above, it is important for us to keep in mind that contemporary society may be a society...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (2): 19–27.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., the lawyer, or others emerging in middle- class eighteenth- century society that would embody the central and value- giving character in a play (154). Such plays and characters should not, how- ever, be thought of as conscious embodiments of social conflict or class struggle. Later political and economic...
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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (1): 91–110.
Published: 01 February 2018
... a middleclass putsch. It was not a society that came out of the maelstrom. It was a class” (Quigley 2013: 116). Political scientists have long agreed with Ó Faoláin on the broadly bourgeois and conservative nature of the successor state. The Free State government developed an economic...
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boundary 2 (2007) 34 (1): 115–133.
Published: 01 February 2007
... differences films can use and amplify. I allude here to low-tech “minor” innovations, such as the drifting camera mode of Y Tu Mama Tam- bien (which digresses from the middle-class hedonistic narrative to focus on background characters working in the kitchen or to roadside accidents and NAFTA protests...
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boundary 2 (2004) 31 (3): 1–46.
Published: 01 August 2004
... traders as patrons, or receive land grants, tax-free subsidies, endowments, or reve- nue. The single device by which Meera generates a popular movement at diverse sites is coauthorship and cocomposing by men and women of sub- altern classes. We name this act of resistance and writing/reciting...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (3): 1–17.
Published: 01 August 2015
..., Islamic Political Identity in Turkey (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003). For a recent work that targets not just the Islamic bourgeoisie but the “new” middle class, the product of neoliberalism, see Ali Simsek, Yeni Orta Sinif: “Sinik Stratejiler” [The new middle class: “Cynical strategies...