Beyond consumption : India's new middle class in the neo-liberal times /: India's new middle class in the neo-liberal times. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Manish K. Jha, Pushpendra.
• Editors: Jha, Manish K (Manish Kumar), 1974-; Pushpendra, 1963-
• Contents: List of Figures. List of Tables. Notes on the Contributors. Preface. Abbreviations. 1. Contextualising India’s New Middle Class: Intersectionalities and Social Mobility Part I: Social Mobility and the Making of New Middle Class 2. Risk, Trust and Social Networks: A Study among Middle Class Nair Families near Technopark, Kerala 3. Muslim Middle Class in India: Size, Diversity, and Correlates 4. Dalit Desires, Middle Class-ness and the City of Surat Part II: Middle Class, Urban Poor, and Migrants: A Complex Interface 5. The Middle Class and the Migrant: Contention in the City 6. In the Pursuit of Middle Class-ness: Exploring the Aspirations and Strategies of the Urban Poor in Neoliberal Delhi 7. Politics of Dark Rooms and Neurotic Urbanity through Padmanabhan’s Lights Out Part III: Middle Class in the Regional Landscape 8. The Kashmiri Middle Class and its Everyday Politics 9. Of Imported SUVs and Buying the ‘Last Supper’ in Milan: ‘New Middle Class’ and its Crisis of Hegemony in India’s Northeast 10. The ‘Threshold People’: Narrating Middle Class Lives in Neoliberal Kolkata 11. Doing Good, Being Political: Middle Class Bhadralok Narratives from Neoliberal India Part IV: New Middle Class: Exploring Technology, Identity, and Spaces 12. ‘Cyborgs’ or ‘House elves’? WhatsApp Mothering in a Greater Mumbai Suburb 13. Work-from-home for Bangalore’s New Middle Class Women: No Future ‘Workplace’ for Women? 14. ‘The One-Dimensional Man’: Unravelling Identity of a New Indian Subject. Index.
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New Delhi : Routledge India
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 305.550954; Middle class -- India; Middle class -- India -- Economic conditions; Consumption (Economics) -- India; Neoliberalism -- India
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000439458; 9781000439441; 9781003098416
• Related ISBNs: 9780367563462; 9780367565718
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