Why the middle class matters: Commentary on Victoria Lawson with Middle Class Poverty Politics Research Group's 'Decentring poverty studies: Middle class alliances and the social construction of poverty' Ananya Roy Commentary - Why the middle class matters

Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 25-28

  Roy, Ananya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84860273184     PISSN: 01297619     EISSN: 14679493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9493.2012.00445.x     Document Type: Note

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