Chapter 5 Family: Securing wellbeing through health and hygiene consumption

Chapters in this book

1. Acknowledgements 5
2. Inhalt 7
3. Part 1: The project
4. Chapter 1 New consumers in the Global South: An introduction 3
5. Chapter 2 What is new for the new consumers? 20
6. Part 2: The themes
7. Chapter 3 Aspirations: The dreams of the new consumers 45
8. Chapter 4 Precarity: Changing consumption in times of pandemic 64
9. Chapter 5 Family: Securing wellbeing through health and hygiene consumption 82
10. Chapter 6 Micrologistics: Decentralisation and personalisation in consumer practices 98
11. Part 3: The goods
12. Chapter 7 Mobile phones: No longer digitally deprived 119
13. Chapter 8 Clothing, not fashion: Ethics and spaces of practical consumption 141
14. Chapter 9 Little luxuries: Self- indulgence and comfort 157
15. Chapter 10 Cement: Intermittence and materiality of home construction 173
16. Conclusion 190
17. Bibliography
18. Appendix 1: Summary of participant recruitment criteria 201
19. Appendix 2: Summary of participants 206
20. Appendix 3: Participants by World Bank income lines 211
21. Index