Consumption Intensified : The Politics of Middle-Class Daily Life in Brazil /
Consumption Intensified examines how self-identified middle class Brazilians in Sao Paulo redefined their class during Brazil's economic crisis of 1981-1994. With inflation soaring to an astounding 2700 percent, their consumption practices intensified, not only in relation to the national crisi...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham, NC :
Duke University Press,
2002.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. The Dream Class Is Over: Home Ownership, Consumption, and (Re)definitions of Middle-Class Identity
- 2. Shopping Nightmares, Banking Games, Government Packages: Local Shopping during Inflation
- 3. The Discrete Sales of the Middle Class: Gender and Generation in a Globalizing Economy
- 4. The International in Daily Life: Of Debutantes and Disney
- 5. International Bargain Shopping and the Making of Modernity
- 6. Delivering the Crisis: The Media and the Middle Class through the Collor Years
- 7. The Middle Class versus the Nation: Discourses of Region/Race and Morality
- 8. Deliverance: An End to Inflation and the Promise of Neoliberalism.