Elite mobilities

In: Changing mobilities

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1. Introduction : the movement of the few / Thomas Birtchnell and Javier Caletrio -- 2. Elsewhere : tracking the mobile lives of globals / Anthony Elliott -- 3. Wealth segmentation and the mobilities of the super-rich : a conceptual framework / Jonathan V. Beaverstock and James R. Faulconbridge -- 4. Elite formation in the third industrial revolution / Thomas Birtchnell, Gil Viry and John Urry -- 5. Aeromobile elites : private business aviation and the global economy / Lucy Budd -- 6. Super-rich lifestyles / Mike Featherstone -- 7. The ease of mobility / Shamus Rahman Khan -- 8. The uneven pragmatics of "affordable" luxury tourism in inland Yucatan (Mexico) / Matilde Cordoba Azcarate, Ana Garcia Silberman and Juan Cordoba Ordonez -- 9. Visible-invisible : the social semiotics of labour in luxury tourism / Crispin Thurlow and Adam Jaworski -- 10. "This is not me" : conspicuous consumption and the travel aspirations of the European middle classes / Javier Caletrio -- 11. Tracing the super rich and their mobilities in a Scandinavian welfare state / Malene Freudendal-Pedersen -- 12. The super-rich and offshore worlds / John Urry -- 13. Epilogue : the bodies, spaces and tempo of elite formations / Mimi Sheller -- 14. Postscript : elite mobilities and critique / Andrew Sayer.

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Elite mobilities

In: Changing mobilities

Birtchnell, Thomas

Birtchnell, Thomas

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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 warnings over the risks posed by climate change and the unsustainable use of resources. Often an out-of-bounds topic in critical social science, elites are thought of as too inaccessible a group to interview and too variable a minority to measure.This groundbreaking collection sets out to challenge this pe

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Elite mobilities

In: Changing mobilities

Birtchnell, Thomas; Caletrío, Javier

Birtchnell, Thomas; Caletrío, Javier

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