Consumption and Vietnam's new middle classes : societal transformations and everyday life / / Arve Hansen

• Autore: Hansen Arve
• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (216 pages)
• Disciplina: 737
• Soggetto topico: City dwellers
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Introduction: Consumption, Societal Transformations and Everyday Life in Vietnam -- Consumption, Change and Continuity -- Social Practices, Everyday Geographies and Political Economy: Doing Consumption Research in Vietnam -- Outline of the Book -- References -- 2: Consumption Transformed: Đôˀi Mơ'i, New Middle Classes and the Construction of Consumer Socialism -- Consuming Đổi Mới1 -- The Socialist Market Economy and the Creation of New Middle Classes -- Constructing Consumer Socialism -- The Socialist Consumer Revolution -- Conflicted Consumerism -- Conclusion -- References -- 3: Reflexive Individuals and the Political Economy of Everyday Practices: Theorising Consumption and Capitalist Development -- Challenging Practice Theory: Consumers, Culture and the Political Economy of Practices -- Consumers as Reflexive Individuals -- Culture and Practice -- The Political Economy of Practices -- Practices and the Political Economy of Development: Concluding Discussion -- References -- 4: Wheels of Change: Motorbikes, Cars and Capitalism -- Driving Đổi Mới: Contextual and Theoretical Starting Points -- Theorising Automobility and Moto-Mobility -- 'Motorbike Ethnography' -- Hanoi on Wheels: The System of Moto-Mobility and Its Everyday Geography -- Driving in the System of Moto-Mobility -- The Particularities of Hanoi's Moto-Mobile Streetscapes -- Mundane Mobilities and Their Moorings -- Emerging Automobility -- Mobile Distinction -- Italian Luxury -- Success on Four Wheels -- Better Service, Higher Bribes -- The Car as a Business Strategy -- Bringing Success to the quê -- Mobile Pragmatism and Conspicuous Immobility -- Conspicuous Luck -- Normalising Automobility: Cars, Capitalism, and Socio-Politically Embedded Mobility -- Between the Exceptional and the Expected. ; Conclusion -- References -- 5: Food Transformations, Food Cultures and Food Practices in the Socialist Market Economy -- Đổi Mới's Foodscape Transformations -- Practices, Culture and Foodscapes -- Eating Out Under Consumer Socialism -- Change and Continuity -- Heterogeneous Foodways -- Changing Food Cultures6 -- Generational Differences -- Concluding Discussion: Food Cultures and the Political Economy of Food Practices -- References -- 6: Đổi Mới and the Meatification of Everyday Food Practices -- Meat and Development -- Development, Agricultural Change and Meat Consumption in Vietnam -- Increasing Meat Consumption in Vietnam: The Main Factors -- Factor 1: Provisioning Meat: Increased Availability and Affordability -- Factor 2: Meat Intensification of Food Practices -- Factor 3: Eating Out -- Factor 4: Meat Representing Development and Distinction -- Eating a Capitalist Transformation: Practices and Provision -- Meat Cultures -- Conclusion -- References -- 7: Electrifying Development: Consumption Booms and Household Energy Demand -- Consuming Energy -- Energy Transformations and the Political Economy of Energy -- Consumer Socialism and Household Electricity Consumption -- The Power of Stuff -- Conditioning Comfort -- Electrifying Mobility -- Conclusion -- References -- 8: Conclusion: Consumption, Sustainability and the Political Economy of Consumer Socialism -- Studying Consumption and Development -- Consumption in the Socialist Market Economy: Variegated Transformations -- Change and Continuity -- Pandemic Disruptions -- Asian Middle Classes and Sustainable, Post-pandemic Futures -- References -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Consumption and Vietnam's New Middle Classes
• ISBN: 3-031-14167-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910629294903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Consumption and Public Life