Sara Dickey

Living Class in Urban India

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Globalization is radically transforming how India's citizens perceive class. Living Class in Urban India examines a nation in flux, bombarded with media images of middle-class consumers, while navigating the currents of late capitalism and the surges of inequality they can produce.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 381g
• ISBN-13: 9780813583914
• ISBN-10: 0813583918
• Artikelnr.: 44213535

Autorenporträt

SARA DICKEY is a professor of anthropology at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. She is the author or co-editor of several books including Cinema and the Urban Poor in South India, Home and Hegemony: Domestic Service and Identity Politics in South and Southeast Asia, and South Asian Cinemas: Widening the Lens.  

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Notes on Transliteration and Pronunciation
1. Introduction: The Everyday Life of Class
2. What Is Class in Madurai?
3. Four Residents, as I Know Them
4. Consumption and Apprehension: Class in the Everyday
5. Debt: The Material Consequences of Moral Constructs
6. Performing the Middle
7. Marriage: Drama, Display, and the Reproduction of Class
8. Food, Hunger, and the Binding of Class Relations
9. Conclusions: Nuancing Class Boundaries
Notes
References
Index