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Rooted globalism : Arab-Latin American business elites and the politics of global imaginaries

Funk, Kevin, author

2022

Overview

Does the concept of nationality apply to the economic elite, or have they shed national identities to form a global capitalist class? Kevin Funk unpacks dozens of ethnographic interviews he conducted with Latin America's urban-based, Arab-descendant elite class, some of whom also occupy positions of political power in countries such as Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. Based on extensive fieldwork, Funk illuminates how these elites navigate their Arab ancestry, Latin American host cultures, and roles as protagonists of globalization. With the term 'rooted globalism,' Funk captures the emergence of classed intersectional identities that are simultaneously local, national, transnational, and global. The book analyses the identities, worldviews, and motivations of this group and ultimately reveals that rather than obliterating national identities, global capitalism relies on them.

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Subject: Elite (Social sciences) Latin America. / Businesspeople Latin America Social conditions. / Arabs Latin America Social conditions. / Society. / Latin America Relations Arab countries. / Arab countries Relations Latin America.
• ISBN: 9780253062536, 9780253062543

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HN110.5.Z9 E444 2022	1	BOOK	WAITINSERT