Consumption Intensified : The Politics of Middle-Class Daily Life in Brazil /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: O'Dougherty, Maureen, 1956- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2002.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Alltag
Mittelstand
Middle class > Political activity.
Middle class > Economic conditions.
Economic history.
Consumption (Economics)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Social Classes.
Consommation (Économie politique) > Bresil.
Classes moyennes > Activite politique > Bresil.
Classes moyennes > Bresil > Conditions economiques > 20e siecle.
Consumption (Economics) > Brazil.
Middle class > Political activity > Brazil.
Middle class > Brazil > Economic conditions > 20th century.
Brasilien
Brazil.
Bresil > Conditions economiques > 1985-
Brazil > Economic conditions > 1985-
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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