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The new middle classes : globalizing lifestyles, consumerism and environmental concern
- Title
- The new middle classes : globalizing lifestyles, consumerism and environmental concern / edited by Hellmuth Lange, Lars Meier.
- Publication
- Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, 2009.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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- Description
- xviii, 303 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Who are the new middle classes and why are they given so much public attention? / Hellmuth Lange and Lars Meier -- Convergence and divergence in societal modernization : global trends, regional variations, and some implications for sustainability / Volker H. Schmidt -- Consumerist lifestyles in the context of globalization : investigating scenarios of homogenization, diversification and hybridization / Katina Kuhn -- Who are the globalizers? The role of education and educational elites / Steffen Mau -- Provider strategies and the greening of consumption practices : exploring the role of companies in sustainable consumption / G. Spaargaren and C.S.A. (Kris) van Koppen -- From small object to cars : consumption expansion in East Asia / Beng Huat Chua -- Rising capitalism, emerging middle-classes and environmental perspectives in China : a Weberian approach / Fritz Reusswig and André Isensee -- Globalization of lifestyle : golfing in China / Yaoqi Zhang [and others] -- Who are the knowledge workers of Campinas, SP, Brazil and how do they live? Local impacts of global trends / Leonardo Freire de Mello -- Sustainability of a life más cómodo? Agricultural change, remaking families, and the emerging indigenous middle class in the Ecuadorian Andes / Jason Pribilsky -- New middle class and environmental lifestyle in Israel / Tally Katz-Gerro -- The political economy of lifestyle : consumption, India's new middle class and state-led develeopment / Leela Fernandes -- "Environmentality" in the neoliberal city : attitudes, governance and social justice / Emma Mawdsley -- India's 'new middle class' and the globalising city : software professionals in Bangalore, India / Carol Upadhya -- The changing food scenario and the middle classes in the emerging megacity of Hyderabad, India / Christoph Dittrich -- Highly qualified employees in Bangalore, India : consumerist predators? / Hellmuth Lange, Lars Meier, and N.S. Anuradha.
- ISBN
- 9781402099373
- 1402099371
- 9781402099380
- 140209938X
- 9048182247
- 9789048182244
- LCCN
- 2009921269
- OCLC
- ocn310400870
- 310400870
- SCSB-14662867
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library