Bibliograph

Rooted globalism, Arab-Latin American business elites and the politics of global imaginaries, Kevin Funk

Type

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Rooted globalism, Arab-Latin American business elites and the politics of global imaginaries, Kevin Funk

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Rooted globalism

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Kevin Funk

Series statement

Framing the global

Sub title

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

Summary

Does the concept of nationality apply to the economic elite, or have they shed national identities to form a global capitalist class? In Rooted Globalism, 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. Focusing on an oft-ignored axis of South-South relations (between Latin America and the Arab world), Rooted Globalism provides detailed analysis of the identities, worldviews, and motivations of this group and ultimately reveals that rather than obliterating national identities, global capitalism relies on them

Target audience

adult

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