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Article: O'Dougherty, Maureen Consumption Intensified: the Politics of Middle-Class Daily Life in Brazil.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
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- Perspectives on Political Science
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- September 22, 2002
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Durham: Duke University Press 262 pp., $59.95, ISBN 0-8223-2879-8 Publication Date: March 2002
Consumption Intensified is an important account of the politics of middle-class daily life in Brazil, enriched with many interesting stories based on interviews. The style, however, is at times ponderous, especially when the author, Maureen O'Dougherty, makes theoretical asides and derives generalizations from routine specific examples. O'Dougherty carried out extensive fieldwork in Brazil and currently is a research fellow at the Institute on Race and Poverty at the University of Minnesota.
The basic theme of the book is that there is an identifiable middle ...