Christian W Chun

A World without Capitalism?

Alternative Discourses, Spaces, and Imaginaries

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Chun examines the ways in which identities, discourses and topographies of both capitalist and anti-capitalist imaginaries and realities are embodied in the everyday practices of people. This book is vital reading for students and researchers working in the fields of applied linguistics, discourse analysis and cultural studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9781138605343
• ISBN-10: 1138605344
• Artikelnr.: 62798908

Autorenporträt

Christian W. Chun is Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Linguistics, University of Massachusetts Boston. He is the author of Power and Meaning Making in an EAP Classroom: Engaging with the Everyday (2015) and The Discourses of Capitalism: Everyday Economists and the Production of Common Sense (2017).

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
Acknowledgments
Chapter One: A world without capitalism?
Chapter Two: The spectral realities of capitalism
Chapter Three: What's in a name: working or 'middle' class?
Chapter Four: The crucial role of race in American capitalism
Chapter Five: "Working for the clampdown"
Chapter Six: Workplaces, the city, and the world
Chapter Seven: The socio-spatialities of capital: urban landscapes and
alternative imaginaries
Chapter Eight: What is to be done?
References
Index