Privilege at play : class, race, gender, and golf in Mexico /
"A Game of Privilege is a book about social inequalities and privilege in today's Mexico. Based on ethnographic research conducted in upscale golf clubs and in-depth interviews with upper-middle and upper-class golfers, as well as working-class employees, this book reverses the analysis of...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Global and comparative ethnography.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "A Game of Privilege is a book about social inequalities and privilege in today's Mexico. Based on ethnographic research conducted in upscale golf clubs and in-depth interviews with upper-middle and upper-class golfers, as well as working-class employees, this book reverses the analysis of inequalities by focusing on privilege. Using rich qualitative data, the book examines how social hierarchies are relations produced through a multitude of everyday practices. A Game of Privilege not only analyses class but also explores how racial and gender dynamics reaffirm social hierarchies. This novel approach is combined with a space-sensitive perspective, showing how spatial dynamics underpin the reproduction of privilege"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 217 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190931629 0190931620 9780190931643 0190931647 9780190931636 0190931639 |