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Elite Mobilities.
Small in number but great in influence, mobile elites have shaped the contours of global capitalism. Today these elites continue to flourish globally but in a changing landscape. The current economic crisis-and rising concerns about the moral legitimacy of extreme wealth-coincides with stern warning...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Colección: | Changing mobilities.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Elite Mobilities; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: the movement of the few; 2 Elsewhere: tracking the mobile lives of globals; 3 Wealth segmentation and the mobilities of the super-rich: a conceptual framework; 4 Elite formation in the third industrial revolution; 5 Aeromobile elites: private business aviation and the global economy; 6 Super-rich lifestyles; 7 The ease of mobility; 8 The uneven pragmatics of "affordable" luxury tourism in inland Yucatán (Mexico).
- 9 Visible-invisible: the social semiotics of labour in luxury tourism10 'This is not me': conspicuous consumption and the travel aspirations of the European middle classes; 11 Tracing the super-rich and their mobilities in a Scandinavian welfare state; 12 The super-rich and offshore worlds; 13 Epilogue: the bodies, spaces and tempo of elite formations; 14 Postscript: elite mobilities and critique; Index.