Beyond Consumption (eBook, PDF)

India's New Middle Class in the Neo-Liberal Times
Redaktion: K Jha, Manish; Pushpendra

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Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses India's middle class recognising the diversity within this class, the people, their practices, and the production of spaces.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000439441
• Artikelnr.: 62542188

Autorenporträt

Manish K Jha is professor of community organisation and development practice, School of Social Work, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. His research interests include migration, disaster response, middle classes, poverty, social policy, and social justice. Pushpendra is professor and chairperson of the Patna Centre of Tata Institute of Social Sciences. His research interests include agrarian relations, informal labour, migration, and social policy.

Inhaltsangabe

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.