2023
DOI: 10.1177/00380261231177195
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Consumer culture and symbolic capital in a differentiated Pakistani transnational community: ‘It is a fake type of izzat

Abstract: Drawing on original qualitative data this article analyses fluid and shifting notions of symbolic capital within the Pakistani diaspora in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England. Focusing on the South Asian concept of izzat (honour/prestige) it is argued that the field of local symbolic prestige is adapting to the macro context laid down by consumer culture as its mechanisms permeate the structural, cultural and everyday lives of this transnational community. This is partially and differentially influencing f… Show more

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