Rethinking class and culture in Africa: between E. P. Thompson and Pierre Bourdieu

Werbner, Pnina

doi:10.1080/03056244.2017.1367655

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“…Research shows that collective consumption habits are closely related to cultural elements, values, and the development of "truth" trends that people believe in (Nicoli et al, 2020). Cultural aspects refer to symbols, norms and habitus that are reproduced gradually from generation to generation (Werbner, 2018). The value aspect refers to the ideology that is utilized as a reference in acting and behaving in an area (Zimmermann, 2015).…”

Section: Consumption Patternsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Socio-religious behavior on consumption pattern during Israel and Palestine conflict in Muslim society

Airlangga PH,

Saputri,

Nurhakim

2024

IASJOL

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The changes in consuption patterns triggered by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the pro-Israel boycott movement in Indonesia are important since they show the influence of socio-religious values on cunsumers behavior and the resulting impacts on companies and the workforce. Previous studies primarily focused on analyzing the causes and implications of the conflict, and paid insufficient attention to the socio-religious behavior perspective in changing consumption patterns. This study includes boycott actions, the social and religious characteristics of both pro and con movements, and the involvement of state institutions in responding to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The desk research method is used by collecting data through digital media analysis, including online news, social media, and library research. The findings of this study include the internalization of social religious values as a driving force for boycott actions, moral considerations influencing the defense of opinions in society, and the involvement of major powers in strenghtening the boycott movement. The uniqueness of this study lies in its in-depth approach to religious social behavior in the context of changing consumption patterns amidst armed conflict.

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Section: Consumption Patternsmentioning

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Socio-religious behavior on consumption pattern during Israel and Palestine conflict in Muslim society

Airlangga PH,

Saputri,

Nurhakim

2024

IASJOL

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“…of the urban informal economy in Kinshasa "from below," and how it (re) produces different forms of social inequalities. Drawing on recent debates on the conceptualization of class in Africa (Noret 2017(Noret , 2019Chitonge 2018;Werbner 2018;Bernards 2019;McDermott 2021) and ethnographic fieldwork conducted on three case studies of Kinshasa's informal workers, this paper argues that taking the class and social positionality seriously is key to understanding social inequality within an African informal economy.…”

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Wage Labor and Social Inequality in Kinshasa’s Informal Economy: A Class Analysis

Mesa¹

2022

etudesafricaines

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“… 2 For examples of the recent discussion of class in social anthropology, see Carrier and Kalb (2015), and, with reference to Africa, Melber (2016), Noret (2017), Southall (2018a) and Werbner (2018). …”

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Doing being middle-class in the global South: comparative perspectives and conceptual challenges

Lentz¹

2020

Africa

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Like many key terms in history and the social sciences, ‘middle class’ is at once a category ‘of social and political analysis’ and a category ‘of social and political practice’, in Rogers Brubaker and Frederick Cooper's terms – two aspects that were, and continue to be, entangled in complex ways. Since the end of the eighteenth century, the term ‘middle class’, or the ‘middling sorts’, has been a catchword in political discourse, and it became one long before scholars defined it in any systematic fashion. Once it became a more or less well-established conceptual tool of research, however, it began to take on an academic life of its own, with scholars also using it to describe people who did not invoke this category for their own self-description. But scholarly terms could – and indeed did – also feed back into folk understandings of social stratification. In particular, the recent global popularity of the term ‘middle class’ seems to be at least in part a result of the appropriation of academic categories by policymakers. This article contributes to the discussion on African middle classes by tracing the genealogy of theoretical perspectives on class and by outlining some findings from studies of the history of European and American middle classes as well as recent research on middle classes in the global South. I discuss both the history of scholarly debates on the middle classes and what empirical studies tell us about people's contested self-categorizations, and how their understandings and practices of being middle-class have changed over time. The article argues that future research on the dynamics of African social stratification has much to gain from a regional and historical comparative perspective.

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Rethinking class and culture in Africa: between E. P. Thompson and Pierre Bourdieu

Cited by 11 publications

References 40 publications

Socio-religious behavior on consumption pattern during Israel and Palestine conflict in Muslim society

Socio-religious behavior on consumption pattern during Israel and Palestine conflict in Muslim society

Wage Labor and Social Inequality in Kinshasa’s Informal Economy: A Class Analysis

Doing being middle-class in the global South: comparative perspectives and conceptual challenges

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