Inequality, poverty, and precarity in contemporary American culture /

This book analyses the discourse generated by pundits, politicians, and artists to examine how poverty and the income gap is framed through specific modes of representation. Set against the dichotomy of the structural narrative of poverty and the opportunity narrative, Lemke's modified concept...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lemke, Sieglinde
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Temas:
Poverty > United States.
Income distribution > Social aspects > United States.
Equality > United States.
Popular culture > United States.
Pauvreté > États-Unis.
Revenu > Répartition > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Culture populaire > États-Unis.
Politics & government.
Political economy.
Cultural studies.
Development studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Income distribution > Social aspects
Economic history
Equality
Popular culture
Poverty
Social conditions
United States > Economic conditions.
United States > Social conditions.
États-Unis > Conditions économiques.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Discourse : the great inequality debate
  • The documentary : Barbara Ehrenreich's 'Nickel and Dimed' and David Shipler's 'The Working Poor'
  • The icon : Dorothea Lange's 'Migrant Mother'
  • The precarious gaze : contemporary documentary photography by Jeff Wall and Tom Stone
  • The nation : American exceptionalism in our time
  • Conclusion : precarity.

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