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Inside the hidden lives of the global "1%", this book examines the networks, social practices, marriages, and machinations of Pakistan's elite.
Benefitting from rare access and keen analytical insight, Rosita Armytage's rich study reveals the daily, even mundane, ways in which elites contribute to and shape the inequality that characterizes the modern world. Operating in a rapidly developing economic environment, the experience of Pakistan's wealthiest and most powerful members contradicts widely held assumptions that economic growth is leading to increasingly impersonalized and globally standardized economic and political structures.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
Note on Anonymity
Introduction: Making Money in an Unequal and Unstable World
Chapter 1. Middle Class Woman in an Elite Man's World
Chapter 2. Creating and Protecting an Elite Class
Chapter 3. Old Money, New Money
Chapter 4. Making an Elite Family
Chapter 5. The Elite Network
Chapter 6. The Culture of Exemptions
Conclusion: What Pakistan's Elite Reveals About Global Capitalism
References
Index
About the author
Rosita Armytage is an anthropologist specialising in elites, social class, capitalism, and global development. Her recent publications include 'Elite ethnography in an insecure place: The methodological implications of "studying up" in Pakistan',
Focaal - Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology (2018).
Summary
Following the hidden lives of the global "1%", this book examines the networks, social practices, marriages, and machinations of the elite in Pakistan. In doing so, it reveals the daily, even mundane, ways in which elites contribute to and shape the inequality that characterises the modern world.
