Beyond Consumption: India’s New Middle Class in the Neo-Liberal Times

Synopsis

This book analyses India’s middle class by recognising the diversity within the class, the people, their practices, and the production of spaces. It explores the economic and social lives of the new middle class, expanding the areas of inquiry beyond consumption in post-liberalisation India and its intersectionalities with gender, caste, religion, migration, and other socioeconomic markers in various cities across the country. The book interrogates the meanings and perceptions of social mobility, growth, consumerism, technology, social identity, and development and examines how they can be emancipatory or subjugating in different contexts. It engages with the new entrants in the middle class, particularly from the marginalised sections, their struggles, insecurities, anxieties, agency, and experiences. The personal, emotive, and psychic dimensions of social mobility have been dealt with in the larger context of socioeconomic settings. The book crosses disciplinary and spatial boundaries and uses a variety of methodologies to provide perspectives on several unexplored or underexplored areas of India’s new middle class. This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of sociology, economics, development studies, public policy, and South Asian studies.

Copyright:

2022

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

270 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781000439458

Related ISBNs:

9780367563462, 9780367565718, 9781003098416

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

10/15/21

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Manish K Jha and Pushpendra

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Social Studies, Sociology

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Manish K Jha

Edited by:

Pushpendra