Consumer Culture and PostmodernismSAGE Publications, 2007 M08 10 - 203 pages 'It is great to see the re-publication of the classic Consumer Culture and Postmodernism. The extensive new material is erudite, informative and important, particularly locating consumer culture in the context of global climate change and postmodernism within a framing that seriously displaces the 'west' from centre-stage' - John Urry, Lancaster University The first edition of this contemporary classic can claim to have put 'consumer culture' on the map, certainly in relation to postmodernism. This expanded new edition includes: - A fully revised preface that explores the developments in consumer culture since the first edition - A major new chapter on 'Modernity and the Cultural Question' - An update on postmodernism and the development of contemporary theory after postmodernism - An account of multiple and alternative modernities - The challenges of consumer culture in Japan and China The result is a book that shakes the boundaries of debate, from one of the foremost writers on culture and postmodernism of the present day. |
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... tradition represents an important minor tradition within the forma- tion of the culture of Western modernity , and is directly critical of the latter's global universalism and civilizing pretensions . It plays a central role in the ...
... tradition represents an important minor tradition within the forma- tion of the culture of Western modernity , and is directly critical of the latter's global universalism and civilizing pretensions . It plays a central role in the ...
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... tradition . The operation of the binary tradition - modernity within sociology tended always to cast Asia on the wrong side of the divide , forever subjected to constraining tradition , or more recently in the twentieth century as ...
... tradition . The operation of the binary tradition - modernity within sociology tended always to cast Asia on the wrong side of the divide , forever subjected to constraining tradition , or more recently in the twentieth century as ...
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... tradition , occurred at the same time as ' the modern ' was being celebrated in the nascent consumer culture . In 1920s Tokyo the mod- ern girl , or moga , emerged in the Ginza and the downtown city streets , the department stores , the ...
... tradition , occurred at the same time as ' the modern ' was being celebrated in the nascent consumer culture . In 1920s Tokyo the mod- ern girl , or moga , emerged in the Ginza and the downtown city streets , the department stores , the ...
Contents
Definitions and Interpretations | 1 |
Theories of Consumer Culture | 13 |
Towards a Sociology of Postmodern Culture | 28 |
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