Consumer Culture and PostmodernismSAGE, 2007 M07 11 - 232 pages 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:
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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... t sufficiently take into account Chinese, Indian, Islamic and other cosmopolitanism traditions (Featherstone,2002; Cheah,2007).There isno guaranteethat the current international discussions about global warming and the need.
... t sufficiently take into account Chinese, Indian, Islamic and other cosmopolitanism traditions (Featherstone,2002; Cheah,2007).There isno guaranteethat the current international discussions about global warming and the need.
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... China, then movementofjobs notably the right to consumption,to be aconsumercitizen becomes a political issue of anotherorder. It is in this contextthat people start to speak about 'The End ofthe American Dream?' (Schifferes, 2006),ata ...
... China, then movementofjobs notably the right to consumption,to be aconsumercitizen becomes a political issue of anotherorder. It is in this contextthat people start to speak about 'The End ofthe American Dream?' (Schifferes, 2006),ata ...
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... China, India and other partsof the world. Mostglobal symbolic analysts havebeen educated atelite universities and can work in English (unlike their national counterparts), as well as being at home moving around the circuit ofglobal ...
... China, India and other partsof the world. Mostglobal symbolic analysts havebeen educated atelite universities and can work in English (unlike their national counterparts), as well as being at home moving around the circuit ofglobal ...
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... Tokugawa Japan (Gluck,1998; see discussioninchapter 11of this book).In China, postmodernismwas introducedfrom theWest throughinterestin the writings ofDerrida, Foucault, Barthes and others in the 1980s. It was taken.
... Tokugawa Japan (Gluck,1998; see discussioninchapter 11of this book).In China, postmodernismwas introducedfrom theWest throughinterestin the writings ofDerrida, Foucault, Barthes and others in the 1980s. It was taken.
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... Chinese economy since the 1990shas encouragedthe development of consumer culture within China andopened up many questions for intellectuals and academics about the direction Chinese society should take and both the critical potentialand ...
... Chinese economy since the 1990shas encouragedthe development of consumer culture within China andopened up many questions for intellectuals and academics about the direction Chinese society should take and both the critical potentialand ...
Contents
Towardsa Sociology ofPostmodern Culture 4 Cultural Change and Social Practice | |
The Aestheticization of Everyday Life | |
Lifestyle and Consumer Culture 7 City Culturesand Postmodern Lifestyles 8 Consumer Culture and Global Disorder 9 Common Culture or Uncommo... | |
The Globalization of Diversity | |
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