Description:
When education carries a price tag, it becomes a high-stakes wager on the future. Betting on Education: The Costs of Schooling for Cambodian Youth follows students' experiences to show how the pursuit of middle-class security is bound up with speculation, class inequality, and neoliberal capitalism in Cambodia and beyond.
Review Quotes:
"Betting on Education achieves something rare--an ethnography that brings neoliberalism into sharp focus by showing how it shapes middle-class lives in the Global South. Rich and engaging, Estes's arguments resonate well beyond Cambodia."
--Maryann Bylander "author of The Trade-Offs of Legal Status: Safe Migration, Documentation, and Debt in Southeast Asia"