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In response to high levels of crime, South Africans have turned their homes into fortresses, seeking security behind high walls. But doing so might be counter-productive.
The working-class son of a bus driver has been elected to one of the most important roles in UK politics.
Today’s classes were born out of the machine age. They are not fit for purpose in 21st century Britain.
Rather than being microcosms of the community, schools are increasingly divided by class and ethnicity.
The student protests that rocked South Africa’s universities in 2015 are part of a class struggle as poor and marginalised people fight for their place in an unequal system.
Forget fast cars and fancy clothes – it’s language that reveals where you really come from.
Interviews with members of the white-working class show that most welcome difference and diversity.
In the latest ANUpoll, most Australians (92%) surveyed responded that they belong to the middle or working class.
The black middle class occupies a complex and sometimes precarious position in society, one that requires constant renegotiation.
The more privileged of us swear, fart and take drugs, just like the less privileged portrayed in the SBS show Struggle Street. But they don’t have exploitive documentaries being made about them.
Australian anthropologist Michael Taussig writes: To slip into the blue of your blue jeans is to slip into a surprising and unexpected encounter with the past … but without your having the faintest idea…
The Conversation is running a series, Class in Australia, to identify, illuminate and debate its many manifestations. Here, Joanna Mendelssohn examines the links between Indigenous art and class. The great…
Here is a question: how can it be that everyone has free and independent choice and yet we largely converge on exactly the same things? That’s neither original nor independent. Despite economic growth…
William, Duke of Cambridge, second in line to the British throne, likes to go deer stalking. It must be a class thing. Until the 19th century, deer stalking – what in the US is called “hunting” – was largely…
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