The New Middle Classes: A term key to our project, but who are we talking about, and how do they see themselves? In beginning to explore this subject the whole team is currently reading three texts:

Kerstenetsky, Celia Lessa; Uchoa, Christiane; do Valle Silva, Nelson 2015 The Elusive New Middle Class in Brazil in Brazilian Political Science Review 9 (3)

Rocca, Jean-Louis 2017 Chapter Four: The Making of a Lifestyle in The Making of the Chinese Middle Classes in The Making of the Chinese Middle Class: small comfort and great expectations Palgrave-Macmillan New York 117-170

Southall, Roger 2016 Chapter Three: The Black Middle Class in post-apartheid South Africa: Size, Shape and Structure in The New Black Middle Class in South Africa Boydell and Brewer Woodbridge 41-64