The New Middle Class in India and Brazil: Green Perspectives? - Couverture rigide

9789332704145: The New Middle Class in India and Brazil: Green Perspectives?

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ISBN 10 : 9332704147 ISBN 13 : 9789332704145

Editeur : Academic Foundation, 2018

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Since the turn of the millennium, the growth of the “new global middle class” in the world’s rapidly emerging economies has received much interest, even excitement. But what is new middle class really like in countries such as India and Brazil? Is it a solid upwardly mobile social group – or rather a fragile class prone to poverty again once the next economic crisis comes? Does the new middle class support democracy – or does it rather tend towards aggressive nationalism? And if so much of the world is going to pursue typical middle class lifestyles and patterns of consumption, wouldn’t that have massive environmental impacts – or are there more sustainable options?

With perspectives from India and Brazil, this volume provides new insights into what is likely the most significant social development of our times: the rise of a global middle class, full of aspirations, in a world where safe limits of sustainability are already being transgressed.

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� propos de l'auteur

Dawid Danilo Bartelt studied History and Social Sciences in Bochum, Hamburg, Berlin (Germany) and Recife (Brazil). As a historian, he specialized on Brazilian and Latin American history, completing his Ph.D. in 2001. He worked as a journalist and as Senior press officer for NGOs, including the German Section of Amnesty International since 2002 until 2010 when he joined the Heinrich B�ll Foundation to head the Foundation’s office in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Since 2017, he is the head of the Mexico and Caribe office of Heinrich B�ll Foundation in Mexico City. His publications include numerous articles and radio programmes and several books as author and editor.

Axel Harneit-Sievers, by professional background, is a historian specializing on Africa. He completed his Ph.D. at Hannover University in Germany in 1990 and worked for many years at the Centre for Modern Oriental Studies in Berlin and other research institutions and universities in Germany, with numerous publications on the history and politics of the continent. In 2002 he moved to Lagos, to take over the new Heinrich B�ll Foundation’s country office in Nigeria, and later to Nairobi, Kenya, as director of the foundation’s East & Horn of Africa office. Since 2011, he is heading the Heinrich B�ll Foundation’s India Office in New Delhi.

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