The New Middle Classes
by Lange, Hellmuth; Meier, LarsFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2009-05-01
Publisher(s): Springer Verlag
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Summary
The new middle classes of developing countries are held responsible for boosting extremely resource-intensive lifestyles beyond the OECD-world thus thwarting ongoing efforts to attain a more sustainable future. But how homogeneous are their consumption patterns and why should not globalization include the extension of environmental concern, too?'œThe New Middle Classes' challenges a narrow understanding of lifestyles and consumption by analyzing the issue not only in terms of attitudes and preferences but of socio-economic features and governmental policies, too.
Table of Contents
| Who are the New Middle Classes and why are they Given so Much Public Attention? | p. 1 |
| Modernities, Globalization and Consumption | |
| Convergence and Divergence in Societal Modernization: Global trends, Regional Variations, and Some Implications for Sustainability | p. 29 |
| Consumerist Lifestyles in the Context of Globalization: Investigating Scenarios of Homogenization, Diversification and Hybridization | p. 49 |
| Who are the Globalizers? The Role of Education and Educational Elites | p. 65 |
| Provider Strategies and the Greening of Consumption Practices: Exploring the Role of Companies in Sustainable Consumption | p. 81 |
| From Small Objects to Cars: Consumption Expansion in East Asia | p. 101 |
| New Middle Classes in China, Brazil, Ecuador and Israel | |
| Rising Capitalism, Emerging Middle-Classes and Environmental Perspectives in China: A Weberian Approach | p. 119 |
| Globalization of Lifestyle: Golfing in China | p. 143 |
| Who are the Knowledge Workers of Campinas, SP, Brazil and how do they Live? Local Impacts of Global Trends | p. 159 |
| Sustainability of a Life Mas Comodo? Agricultural Change, Remaking Families, and the Emerging Indigenous Middle Class in the Ecuadorian Andes | p. 177 |
| New Middle Class and Environmental Lifestyle in Israel | p. 197 |
| New Middle Classes in India | |
| The Political Economy of Lifestyle: Consumption, India's New Middle Class and State-Led Development | p. 219 |
| "Environmentality" in the Neoliberal City: Attitudes, Governance and Social Justice | p. 237 |
| India's `New Middle Class' and the Globalising City: Software Professionals in Bangalore, India | p. 253 |
| The Changing Food Scenario and the Middle Classes in the Emerging Megacity of Hyderabad, India | p. 269 |
| Highly Qualified Employees in Bangalore, India: Consumerist Predators? | p. 281 |
| Index | p. 299 |
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