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:
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... Japan material in the newadditional chapterinthisbook, on 'Modernity andthe Cultural Question'). Second, the question of thelimits of consumer culturehas beengiven sharper focusthrough the awareness of the finite resourcebase of ...
... Japan material in the newadditional chapterinthisbook, on 'Modernity andthe Cultural Question'). Second, the question of thelimits of consumer culturehas beengiven sharper focusthrough the awareness of the finite resourcebase of ...
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... Japan they are much smallerstill. Clearly, we cannot assume thereisa commonglobal consumer culture with uniform effects. At the same time, if the tendenciesnoted byReich(2006) with reference to the United States continue, then ...
... Japan they are much smallerstill. Clearly, we cannot assume thereisa commonglobal consumer culture with uniform effects. At the same time, if the tendenciesnoted byReich(2006) with reference to the United States continue, then ...
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... Japan and other parts of Asia, but also in France, Germany, Italy and other Europeancountries (Garon and MacLachlan,2006). There is,then,a greater awareness todayof thecostsof consumer culture, of the unsustainable implications of the ...
... Japan and other parts of Asia, but also in France, Germany, Italy and other Europeancountries (Garon and MacLachlan,2006). There is,then,a greater awareness todayof thecostsof consumer culture, of the unsustainable implications of the ...
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... Japan threatened to outpace theUnited States and Japanese intellectuals and academics weredelving into history to discover Japanese difference and distance Japanfrom the West: the 'always already' postmodern of Tokugawa Japan (Gluck ...
... Japan threatened to outpace theUnited States and Japanese intellectuals and academics weredelving into history to discover Japanese difference and distance Japanfrom the West: the 'always already' postmodern of Tokugawa Japan (Gluck ...
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... Japan,points tothe importanceofunderstanding thelocalcontext togetthesense of whatis at stakeinthe term postmodernism, which although given global impetus, clearly hasawide range oflocal inflectionsaround theworld. The Chinese example ...
... Japan,points tothe importanceofunderstanding thelocalcontext togetthesense of whatis at stakeinthe term postmodernism, which although given global impetus, clearly hasawide range oflocal inflectionsaround theworld. The Chinese example ...
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 | |
Index | |
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