Big Capital in an Unequal World: The Micropolitics of Wealth in Pakistan

Following the hidden lives of the global ＂1%＂, this book examines the networks, social practices, marriages, and machinations of the elite in Pakistan. In doing so, it reveals the daily, even mundane, ways in which elites contribute to and shape the inequality that characterizes the modern world. Operating in a rapidly developing economic environment, the experience of Pakistan’s wealthiest and most powerful members contradicts widely held assumptions that economic growth is leading to increasingly impersonalized and globally standardized economic and political structures.

Rosita Armytage is an anthropologist specialising in elites, social class, capitalism, and global development. Her recent publications include ’Elite ethnography in an insecure place: The methodological implications of ＂studying up＂ in Pakistan’, Focaal - Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology (2018).