Food and the middle class

The site of food transition in rural and urban Bengaluru, India

by Mirka Erler
Doctoral thesis
Date of Examination:2020-05-12
Date of issue:2020-05-25
Advisor:Prof. Dr. Christoph Dittrich
Referee:Prof. Dr. Christoph Dittrich
Referee:Prof. Dr. Heiko Faust
Persistent Address: http://dx.doi.org/10.53846/goediss-7985

 

 

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Abstract

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The global food consumption today is environmentally and socially not sustainable. While greenhousegas emissions increase due to changing diets, the dubble burden of malnutrition persists especially in emerging economies of the Global South such as India. This thesis explores the triangle of food, health and sustainability with a focus on the Indian middle class as the main drivers of changing diets in urban areas. In four different manuscripts it explores changing diets of the Indian middle class in Bengaluru applying the theoretical frameworks of food transition and practice theory. This way the thesis contributes to understand the impact of the Indian middle class on a sustainable food transition in the country as well as the meaning of place for changing diets.
Keywords: India; Food transition; Human Geography; Practice theory; Middle Class; Bengaluru/Bangalore
 
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