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dc.contributor.authorPini, Barbara
dc.contributor.authorMcDonald, P.
dc.contributor.authorMayes, Robyn
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T15:09:00Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T15:09:00Z
dc.date.created2012-09-17T20:00:24Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.citationPini, Barbara and McDonald, Paula and Mayes, Robyn. 2012. Class Contestations and Australia's Resource Boom: The Emergence of the 'Cashed-up Bogan'. Sociology: The Journal of the British Sociological Association. 46 (1): pp. 142-158.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/43641
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0038038511419194
dc.description.abstract

This article examines the figure of the ‘Cashed-up Bogan’ or ‘Cub’ in Australian media from 2006 to 2009. It explains that ‘Bogan’, like that of ‘Chav’ in Britain, is a widely engaged negative descriptor for the white working-class poor. In contrast, ‘Cubs’ have economic capital. This capital, and the Cub’s emergence, is linked to Australia’s resource boom of recent decades when the need for skilled labour allowed for a highly demarcated segment of the working class to earn relatively high incomes in the mining sector and to participate in consumption. We argue that access to economic capital has provided the Cub with mobility to enter the everyday spaces of the middle class, but this has caused disruption and anxiety to middle-class hegemony. As a result, the middle class has redrawn and reinforced class-infused symbolic and cultural boundaries, whereby, despite their wealth, pernicious media representations mark Cubs as ‘other’ to the middle-class deservingness, taste and morality.

dc.publisherBritish Sociological Association
dc.subjectChav
dc.subjectBogan
dc.subjectcultural
dc.subjectclass
dc.subjectAustralia
dc.titleClass Contestations and Australia's Resource Boom: The Emergence of the 'Cashed-up Bogan'
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume46
dcterms.source.number1
dcterms.source.startPage142
dcterms.source.endPage158
dcterms.source.issn0038-0385
dcterms.source.titleSociology: The Journal of the British Sociological Association
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