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Caribbean Middlebrow
It is commonly assumed that Caribbean culture is split into elite highbrow culture-which is considered derivative of Europe and not rooted in the Caribbean-and authentic working-class culture, which is often identified with such iconic island activities as salsa, carnival, calypso, and reggae. InCaribbean Middlebrow, Belinda Edmondson recovers a middle ground, a genuine popular culture in the English-speaking Caribbean that stretches back into the nineteenth century.
Edmondson shows that popular novels, beauty pageants, and music festivals are examples of Caribbean culture that are mostly created, maintained, and consumed by the Anglophone middle class. Much of middle-class culture, she finds, is further gendered as \"female\": women are more apt to be considered recreational readers of fiction, for example, and women's behavior outside the home is often taken as a measure of their community's respectability.
Edmondson also highlights the influence of American popular culture, especially African American popular culture, as early as the nineteenth century. This is counter to the notion that the islands were exclusively under the sway of British tastes and trends. She finds the origins of today's \"dub\" or spoken-word Jamaican poetry in earlier traditions of genteel dialect poetry-as exemplified by the work of the Jamaican folklorist, actress, and poet Louise \"Miss Lou\" Bennett Coverley-and considers the impact of early Caribbean novels, includingEmmanuel Appadocca(1853) andJane's Career(1913).
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Buyers Beware
Buyers Beware offers a new perspective for critical inquiries about the practices of consumption in (and of) Caribbean popular culture. The book revisits commonly accepted representations of the Caribbean from “less respectable” segments of popular culture such as dancehall culture and 'sistah lit' that proudly jettison any aspirations toward middle-class respectability. Treating these pop cultural texts and phenomena with the same critical attention as dominant mass cultural representations of the region allows Patricia Joan Saunders to read them against the grain and consider whether and how their “pulp” preoccupation with contemporary fashion, music, sex, fast food, and television, is instructive for how race, class, gender, sexuality and national politics are constructed, performed, interpreted, disseminated and consumed from within the Caribbean.
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Identity investments : middle-class responses to precarious privilege in neoliberal Chile
After Pinochet's dictatorship ended in Chile in 1990, the country experienced a rapid decline in poverty along with a quickly growing economy. As a result, Chile's middle class expanded dramatically, echoing trends seen across the Global South as neoliberalism took firm hold in the 1990s and the early 2000s. Identity Investments examines the politics and consumption practices of this vast and varied fraction of the Chilean population, seeking to better understand their value systems and the histories that informed them.
Using participant observation, interviews, and photographs, Joel Stillerman develops a unique typology of the middle class, made up of activists, moderate Catholics, pragmatists, and youngsters. This typology allows him to unearth the cultural, political, and religious roots of middle-class market practices in contrast with other studies focused on social mobility and exclusionary practices. The resultant contrast in backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives of these four groups animates this book and extends an emerging body of scholarship focused on the connections between middle-class market choices and politics in the Global South, with important implications for Chile's recent explosive political changes.
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Preserving the (right kind of) city
Since re-democratisation, Brazil has experienced a slow but continuous process of urban reform, with the introduction of legal and institutional developments that favour participatory democracy in urban policy. Legal innovations such as the City Statute have been celebrated for expanding the ‘right to the city’ to marginalised populations. While most studies examine the struggles of the urban poor, I focus on middle-class citizens, showing how such legal developments have unevenly affected the ways in which different social groups are able to impact the production of urban space. The two cases explored in this study concern residents’ struggles to preserve their middle-class neighbourhoods against change triggered by projects related to the hosting of the 2014 World Cup in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The first looks at the Musas Street residents’ fight against the construction of a luxury hotel in their neighbourhood, while the second examines the Pampulha residents’ struggle against the presence of street vendors and football fans in their streets. My findings show that through the articulation of legal discourses, middle-class claims on the need for preserving the environment and the city’s cultural heritage are legitimised by the actions of the local state. The article thus looks beyond neoliberalism, showing that socio-spatial segregation and inequality should not be regarded solely as the product of state–capital alliances for engendering capital accumulation through spatial restructuring, but also as the result of the uneven capacities of those living in the city to access the state resources and legitimise certain forms of inhabitance of urban space.
自重新民主化以来，巴西经历了缓慢但持续的城市改革进程，引入了有利于城市政策参 与性民主的法律和制度发展。法律创新，如《城市法规》，因将“城市权利”扩大到边缘人 群而备受赞誉。虽然大多数研宄考察城市贫民的挣扎，但我关注的是中产阶级公民，表 明这种法律发展如何不均衡地影响不同社会群体影响城市空间生产的方式。本研宄探讨 的两个案例涉及居民努力保护他们的中产阶级社区，防止其遭受因巴西2014年世界杯将 贝洛奥里藏特（Belo Horizonte)作为主场之一举办相关项目引发的变化。第一个案例调查 了穆萨街（Musas Street)居民反对在他们的街区建造豪华酒店的斗争，第二个案例调查了 潘普洛哈（Pampulha)居民反对街头小贩和足球迷出现在他们的街道上的斗争。我的发现 表明，通过法律话语的表达，中产阶级关于保护环境和城市文化遗产的诉求被当地政府 的行为合法化了。文章因此超越了新自由主义，表明社会空间隔离和不平等不应仅仅被 视为通过空间重组产生资本积累的国家-资本联盟的产物，也应被视为城市居民获取国家 资源和使城市空间某些形式的居住合法化的能力不均衡的结果。
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The coloniality of UNESCO’s heritage urban landscapes
The article analyses heritage conservation and urban upgrading in Cuenca, Ecuador, in order to reflect on global inequality and rights to the city at the crossroads of transnational lifestyle mobilities and the globalisation of real estate markets. Processes of gentrification in Cuenca reproduce colonial social relations and marginalise the popular economic activities of informal vendors. Under the auspices of UNESCO World Heritage designation, the Inter-American Development Bank and successive municipal governments have sought to increase property values in the historic El Centro neighbourhood. Rather than relying on a local middle-class return to the city, heritage urban upgrading in Cuenca is dependent on higher-income global middle classes attracted to the city’s historic urbanism. The subsequent higher-income appropriation of urban improvements takes the form of dispossession of use and exchange values of lower-income groups, especially of informal vendors.
本文对厄瓜多尔昆卡 (Cuenca) 的遗产保护和城市升级进行了分析，以反思处于跨国生活方式流动和房地产市场全球化十字路口的全球不平等和城市权利。昆卡的绅士化过程再现了殖民社会关系，并排斥了非正规商贩的大众经济活动。挟联合国教科文组织世界遗产指定之威，美洲开发银行和历届市政府都在努力提高埃尔森托 (El Centro) 历史街区的物业价格。昆卡的文化遗产城市升级不依赖当地中产阶级回归城市，而是依赖被这座城市的历史遗产城市化吸引的全球高收入中产阶级。随后，高收入阶层对城市改造成果的攫取所采取的方式是剥夺低收入群体，特别是非正规商贩的使用和交换价值。
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The middle classes and the subjective representation of urban space in Santiago de Chile
This article examines how symbolic representations of social-spatial differences help to maintain social stratification within Santiago de Chile. Several focus group discussions illuminated the approaches and resources used by the middle classes to build the boundaries that define them within the city. The way in which the middle class understands and describes the city of Santiago confirms that social position is linked to symbolic elements that are associated with occupied spaces within the city. Our analysis shows those elements that confer a particular identity upon a given territory and delimit spatial frontiers between territories.
本文探讨了社会空间差异的符号表征如何帮助智利圣地亚哥保持社会分层。几个焦点小组的讨论阐明了中产阶级利用哪些方法和资源在城市中建立界定自己身份的边界。中产阶级理解和描述圣地亚哥的方式证实了社会地位与某些象征元素相关联，而这些元素又与城市居住空间相关。我们的分析显示了一些要素，它们赋予给定区域特定身份，并划定区域之间的空间边界。
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Mobility Interrupted: A New Framework for Understanding Anti-Left Sentiment Among Brazil’s “Once-Rising Poor”
How do sequences of upward and downward socioeconomic mobility influence political views among those who have “risen” or “fallen” during periods of leftist governance? While existing studies identify a range of factors, long-term mobility trajectories have been largely unexplored. The question has particular salience in contemporary Brazil, where, after a decade of extraordinary poverty reduction on the watch of the leftist Workers’ Party (PT), a subsequent period of economic and political crises intensified anti-PT sentiment. This article uses original data from the 2016 Brazil’s Once-Rising Poor (BORP) Survey, using a 3-city sample of 822 poor and working-class Brazilians to analyze the relationship between retrospective assessments of prior socioeconomic mobility and anti-PT sentiment. The study found that people who reported a “stalled” mobility sequence (upward mobility followed by static or downward mobility) were more likely to harbor anti-left sentiment than other groups, as measured by this study’s anti-PT index.
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Migrant Remittances and Violent Responses to Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean
High levels of crime are a key driver of emigration from Latin America and the Caribbean. But can emigration change public opinion about how best to respond to crime? Focusing on the political economy of remittances—the money migrants send to their families and communities—this study argues that emigration can increase support for violent responses to crime. Migrants’ families often spend remittances on investment goods, which makes them more vulnerable to crime and more supportive of violence to protect themselves. An analysis of AmericasBarometer data finds that remittance recipients are more likely both to fear crime and to be victims of crime than nonrecipients. They are also more approving of vigilantism, more tolerant of police bending the law to apprehend criminals, and more supportive of deploying the military in crime fighting. These findings contribute to our knowledge of the consequences of international migration for political development in migrant-sending countries.
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Rent-seeking middle classes and the short-term rental business in inner-city Lima
Between 2007 and 2017, Lima experienced an unprecedented growth of the construction sector and an increase in high-rise condominiums. Urban land as a strategic resource has altered the spatial configuration of Lima’s central districts. This paper presents the results of a case study of Barranco, a central and emblematic district of Lima that underwent an intense real estate boom. In our assessment, we connect the recent touristification and gentrification debates to develop a new pattern of Latin American gentrification. We argue that Barranco’s consolidation as a tourist destination, along with the relaxation of local construction policies, has led to the development of one-bedroom apartments in high-rise condominiums destined mainly to be rented out to tourists and other types of floating population. This urban restructuring model has created new business opportunities for what we call a rent-seeking middle class, keen to invest in real estate as an alternative means to increase their income. By way of discussion, we argue that the case of Barranco exemplifies a new trend in Latin American gentrification which is not characterised by an influx of the urban middle class into central areas, nor by a massive physical displacement of lower-income residents, but by the growing purchasing power of a wealthier middle-class group investing in the short-term rental business in combination with other enabling factors.
2007年至2017年间，利马的建筑行业经历了前所未有的增长，高层公寓也有所增加。城市土地作为一种战略资源改变了利马中心区的空间配置。本文介绍了巴兰科（Barranco）案例研究的结果，巴兰科是利马的一个中心和标志性区域，经历了一场猛烈的房地产繁荣。在我们的评估中，我们将最近的旅游化和绅士化辩论联系起来，以制定一种新的拉丁美洲绅士化模式。我们认为，巴兰科作为旅游目的地的整合，以及当地建筑政策的放松，导致了高层公寓中一居室公寓的开发，这些公寓主要出租给游客和其他类型的流动人口。这种城市重组模式为所谓的“寻租中产阶级”创造了新的商业机会，他们热衷于投资房地产，以此作为增加收入的替代手段。通过讨论，我们认为巴兰科的案例体现了拉丁美洲绅士化的一种新趋势，其特征不是城市中产阶级涌入中心区，也不是低收入居民被大量驱逐，而是投资于短期租赁业务的富裕中产阶级群体的购买力不断增长以及其他有利因素。
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