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jordan kraemer phd
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anthropologist of digital tech & urban space; Data & Society affiliate; she/they.

book: Mobile City (Cornell UP 2025)
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501778704/mobile-city/

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This book is really happening! Cornell sent me these photos of the advance copies — pre-orders will start shipping Dec. 5.
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November 12, 2024 at 5:21 PM
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Although this economic transformation has garnered plenty of attention, especially in the wake of the 2016 election, fewer have discussed the link between the rise of creative urban professionals, on one hand, and the cultural dispossession of non-elite whites. US political divisiveness corresponds to geographic sorting that has accompanied the gutting of the middle class, illustrated, for example, by white re-urbanization and gentrification. Whiteness has long stood in for class status, ensuring respectability and legitimacy for those who imagine themselves the protagonist of the (white) American narrative. For many whites, losing economic status entails a profound loss of selfhood and cultural belonging—not only economic anxiety, but cultural anxiety. This sense of persecution reflects feeling excluded from the credentialed class and the cultural sphere of coastal elites. Advocates for an egalitarian world are right to decry the primacy of white feelings over the privations of the marginalized, especially because marginalization underwrites a devastatingly unequal social order. But it’s also necessary to ground the perceived loss of standing and cultural recognition—of feeling the white, Christian, middle class experience has been decentered—in the reorganization of the middle class and the perverse incentives of global capital. Countering support for nativism and authoritarianism in the US and elsewhere means facing these broader cultural and economic shifts.
November 7, 2024 at 3:50 PM