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Contested Capital: Rural Middle Classes in India
The expansion and transformation of Asian economies is producing class structures, roles and identities that could not easily be predicted from other times and places.
The industrialisation of the countryside, in particular, generates new, rural middle classes which straddle the worlds of agriculture and industry in complex ways. Their class position is improvised on the basis of numerous influences and opportunities, and is in constant evolution. Enormous though its total population is, meanwhile, the rural middle class remains invisible to most scholars and policymakers.
Contested Capital is the first major work to shed light on an emerging transnational class comprised of many hundreds of millions of people. In India, the 'middle class' has become one of the key categories of economic analysis and developmental forecasting. The discussion suffers from one major oversight: it assumes that the middle class resides uniquely in the cities. As this book demonstrates, however, more than a third of India's middle class is rural, and 17 per cent of rural households belong to the middle class. The book brings this vast and dynamic population into view, so confronting some of the most crucial neglected questions of the contemporary global economy.
The industrialisation of the countryside, in particular, generates new, rural middle classes which straddle the worlds of agriculture and industry in complex ways. Their class position is improvised on the basis of numerous influences and opportunities, and is in constant evolution. Enormous though its total population is, meanwhile, the rural middle class remains invisible to most scholars and policymakers.
Contested Capital is the first major work to shed light on an emerging transnational class comprised of many hundreds of millions of people. In India, the 'middle class' has become one of the key categories of economic analysis and developmental forecasting. The discussion suffers from one major oversight: it assumes that the middle class resides uniquely in the cities. As this book demonstrates, however, more than a third of India's middle class is rural, and 17 per cent of rural households belong to the middle class. The book brings this vast and dynamic population into view, so confronting some of the most crucial neglected questions of the contemporary global economy.
322 pages, Hardcover
Published January 7, 2021
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印度的农村中产阶级特别重视从“社会距离感”角度区分自己和一般的农民、懒汉，界定自己的“中产阶级”身份。
首先，他们对于子女教育观有点不同：希望中学阶段就接受私立的、英语教育，能够和世界沟通、能够熟悉使用英语，希望考上大学、今后从事“非农业”的工作。
其次，消费模式也冲击了印度农村，形成了“农村中产阶级”住房风格和室内设计，增添了以前没有了各种消费，以维持自己和纯粹农民不同的文化资本。
但是，农村中产阶级并没有形成了新的性别文化。新兴的工业和服务业的熟悉技工职业主要是男子的工作，而妇女仍旧从事农业工作、家务劳动或者一些临时工。
印度的农村中产阶级特别重视从“社会距离感”角度区分自己和一般的农民、懒汉，界定自己的“中产阶级”身份。
首先，他们对于子女教育观有点不同：希望中学阶段就接受私立的、英语教育，能够和世界沟通、能够熟悉使用英语，希望考上大学、今后从事“非农业”的工作。
其次，消费模式也冲击了印度农村，形成了“农村中产阶级”住房风格和室内设计，增添了以前没有了各种消费，以维持自己和纯粹农民不同的文化资本。
但是，农村中产阶级并没有形成了新的性别文化。新兴的工业和服务业的熟悉技工职业主要是男子的工作，而妇女仍旧从事农业工作、家务劳动或者一些临时工。
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