Consumption And Vietnams New Middle Classes

Author : Arve Hansen
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031141679
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Consumption and Vietnam’s New Middle Classes written by Arve Hansen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies the dramatic changes in consumption patterns in Vietnam over the past decades, combining a focus on everyday practices and societal transformations. Zooming in on the new urban middle classes, and through in-depth case studies in the realms of mobility, food and energy, the book brings new insights to some of the most urgent global sustainability challenges. Based on a decade of research in Vietnam, the book aims to contribute to better understanding one of the most fascinating ‘development success stories’ in the world. It introduces the term ‘consumer socialism’ to analyse some of the contradictions embedded in the socialist market economy. Simultaneously, the book aims to contribute to strengthening consumption research in and on emerging economies, and for this purpose develops a theoretical approach focusing on social practices and the political economy of consumption.

Author : Van Nguyen-Marshall
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400723067
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reinvention of Distinction written by Van Nguyen-Marshall and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-11-17 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering collection brings together an international group of scholars to explore the Vietnamese middle class. From the leisure pursuits of the colonial middle class to the impact of the new urban rich on landscape of the countryside, this interdisciplinary volume explores the ways in which middle classness has been practiced in a wide range of contexts throughout the 20th century and into the 21st. In addition to offering insights into how middle classness was and is constituted and negotiated, this collection illuminates the cultural and social conditions of two distinctive periods in Vietnamese history. Three historical chapters consider how middle class status was experienced and displayed under French colonialism and in 1960s republican. These chapters offer examinations of middle classness through recreation, consumption, and associational life. Six contemporary studies examine the modes of experimentation and practice within middle class urban Vietnam. Still a sensitive topic politically, the contemporary middle class, nascent but increasingly powerful, is exerting a strong impact on the shape of contemporary society and culture, as well as on urban and rural landscapes. This volume offers a series of studies which critically interrogate the practices of those who engage in or aspire to urban middle-class lifestyles in Vietnam both in the past and in the present.

Author : Catherine A. Earl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788776946807
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vietnam's New Middle Classes written by Catherine A. Earl and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : E. Tsang
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137297441
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Middle Class in China written by E. Tsang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-29 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on interviews with entrepreneurs, professionals and regional party cadres' from a range of age groups, this book argues that Western class categories do not directly apply to China and that the Chinese new middle class is distinguished more by socio-cultural than by economic factors.

Author : Benedicte Bull
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1800883781
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook on International Development and the Environment written by Benedicte Bull and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years after the Stockholm Conference first placed the environment on the international development agenda, this Handbook continues the debate. Not only does it discuss the profound environmental and theoretical critique against ‘development’ as modernization and economic growth, but also how perspectives on nature have changed from an infinite resource to a fragile subject.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 926415034X
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Under Pressure: The Squeezed Middle Class written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Middle-class households feel left behind and have questioned the benefits of economic globalisation.

Author : Arve Hansen
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811562482
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Socialist Market Economy in Asia written by Arve Hansen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended for policy-makers, academics and students of development studies, area studies, political economy, geography and political science. Three of the best global performers in terms of economic growth are authoritarian states led by communist parties. The ‘socialist market economy’ model employed in China, Vietnam and Laos performs better than the economic systems in countries at a similar level of income per capita on a wide range of development indicators, yet market reforms and governance failures have led to highly unequal societies and significant environmental problems. This book presents the first comparative study of development in these three countries. Written by country experts and scholars of development studies, it explores the ongoing quest for market versus state within their model, and the coherence of their development. Chapter 5 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Author : Arve Hansen
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031110692
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Consumption, Sustainability and Everyday Life written by Arve Hansen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book seeks to understand why we consume as we do, how consumption changes, and why we keep consuming more and more, despite the visible damage we are doing to the planet. The chapters cover both the stubbornness of unsustainable consumption patterns in affluent societies and the drivers of rapidly increasing consumption in emerging economies. They focus on consumption patterns with the largest environmental footprints, including energy, housing, and mobility and engage in sophisticated ways with the theoretical frontiers of the field of consumption research, in particular on the ‘practice turn’ that has come to dominate the field in recent decades. This book maps out what we know about consumption, questions what we take for granted, and points us in new directions for better understanding—and changing—unsustainable consumption patterns.

Author : Marlyne Sahakian
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317310519
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Food Consumption in the City written by Marlyne Sahakian and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food consumption patterns and practices are rapidly changing in Asia and the Pacific, and nowhere are these changes more striking than in urban areas. This book brings together scholars from anthropology, sociology, environmental studies, tourism, architecture and development studies to provide a comprehensive examination of food consumption trends in the cities of Asia and the Pacific, including household food consumption, eating out and food waste. The chapters cover different scales of analysis, from household research to national data, and combine different methodologies and approaches, from quantifiable data that show how much people consume to qualitative findings that reveal how and why consumption takes place in urban settings. Detailed case studies are included from China, India, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, South Korea and Vietnam, as well as Hawai'i and Australia. The book makes a timely contribution to current debates on the challenges and opportunities for socially just and environmentally sound food consumption in urbanizing Asia and the Pacific. Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138120617_oachapter3.pdf

Author : Rachel Heiman
Publisher : School for Advanced Research Press
ISBN 13 : 9781934691533
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Global Middle Classes written by Rachel Heiman and published by School for Advanced Research Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surging middle-class aspirations and anxieties throughout the world have recently compelled anthropologists to pay serious attention to middle classes and middle-class spaces, sentiments, lifestyles, labors, and civic engagements. Middle classness has become a powerful category for self-identification, as political and corporate leaders increasingly hail "the middle classes" as the ideal subject-citizenry. Ethnographically rich and culturally particular, the essays in this volume elucidate middle-class experience and discourse and in so doing add critical nuance to theories of class itself.