The early years of the twenty‐first century were historic for socioeconomic relations in Brazil.
While long known for stark socioeconomic inequality, the nation became internationally …

In Encoding Race, Encoding Class Sareeta Amrute explores the work and private lives of
highly skilled Indian IT coders in Berlin to reveal the oft-obscured realities of the embodied …

Aunque a menudo se invoca el término “clase media”, casi nunca se define o teoriza el
concepto de manera sistemática y coherente.¿ Qué es una clase media o clase media …

This article analyses the meaning and significance of skills from the perspective of those
who acquire and use them, going beyond dominant approaches to skill development as a …

The liberalisation of the Indian economy facilitated significant changes in the eating habits of
urban middle-class Indians since the 1990s. While there have been studies on food and …

Since India's economic liberalization, rising costs in urban centers have pushed growth to
the peripheries of cities. The territory on which new towns emerge often bears a long history …

Beginning six thousand years ago, intermediate categories of socioeconomic status formed
for the first time in cities as entrepreneurial individuals and households engaged in scaled …

This article explores the spatial marketing system in India. It highlights a case where market
failure is institutionalized through the normalization of heterotopia in the consumption of …

Based on fine-grained ethnographic research in an English city, this book offers a highly
original perspective on England's contemporary political predicament. It argues that some of …

In Mangaluru, a smaller rapidly urbanizing coastal city in southwest India, there is a broker
on every street. They are skilled, reputation conscious figures, who interpret class, jati, age …