The new middle class in India and Brazil – Green perspectives?

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Since the beginning of the new millennium, the growth of the “new middle class” in the world’s rapidly emerging economies has received much interest, even excitement. But what is new middle class really like in countries such as India and Brazil? Is it a solid upwardly mobile social group – or rather a fragile class prone to poverty again once the next economic crisis comes? Does the new middle class support democracy – or does it rather tend towards aggressive nationalism? And if so much of the world is going to pursue typical middle class lifestyles and patterns of consumption, wouldn’t that have massive environmental impacts – or are there more sustainable options?

With perspectives from India and Brazil, this volume provides new insights into what is likely the most significant social development of our times: the rise of a global middle class, full of aspirations, in a world where safe limits of sustainability are already being transgressed.

The book is edited by Dawid Danilo Bartelt and Axel Harneit-Sievers, published by Academic Foundation in partnership with the Heinrich Böll Foundation and contains contributions from 18 researchers and social activists.

Product details
Date of Publication
December 2017
Publisher
Academic Foundation
Number of Pages
279
Licence
All rights reserved
Language of publication
English
ISBN / DOI
9789332704145
Table of contents

About the Editors/Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

The New Middle Class: Data and Perceptions

  1. The Importance of Being Middle Class in India
     DEVESH KAPUR, NEELANJAN SIRCAR and MILAN VAISHNAV
     
  2. The Elusive New Middle Class in Brazil
     CELIA LESSA KERSTENETZKY, CHRISTIANE UCHȎA and NELSON DO VALLE SILVA

Elements of Social and Cultural Life of the New Middle Class

  1. The New Middle Class in Brazilian Telenovelas: Cultural and Symbolical Aspects
    CARLA BARROS
     
  2. Caste and the Indian Middle Class
     SURINDER S. JODHKA
     
  3. IT Industry in India: Testing the Limits of Change in Gendered Spaces
    GOVIND KELKAR
     
  4. Jesus is Power! Neopentecostals and the New Middle Class in Brazil
    MARILENE DE PAULA

New Middle Class Politics

  1. Where are the New Middle Classes in Brazil?
    CANDIDO GRZYBOWSKI
     
  2. Political Preferences of India’s Middle Classes
    PARANJOY GUHA THAKURTA
     
  3. The Rise of the ‘Aam Aadmi’: The New Middle Class and its Politics in India
    RICHA SINGH

New Middle Class Consumption and Green Politics

  1. Indian Urban Middle Class Youth’s Engagement with Consumer Culture: Restraints, Constraints and Freedom
    NITA MATHUR
     
  2. Consumerism and the Indian Middle Classes
    ASHISH KOTHARI
     
  3. Green Politics and the Indian Middle Class
    ASHOK K. LAHIRI
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