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