Big Capital in an Unequal World - The Micropolitics of Wealth in Pakistan

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.

About the author

Rosita Armytage is an anthropologist and political scientist specialising in global development, governance reform and social class. She currently advises the Australian Government on aid effectiveness and development strategy in Cambodia.

Product details

• Authors: Rosita Armytage
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2023
• EAN: 9781800736337
• ISBN: 978-1-80073-633-7
• No. of pages: 206
• Series: Dislocations
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Pakistan, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Political Economy, Social and cultural anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity