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Author : Daniel Miller
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415242707
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (427 download)
Download or read book Consumption: Objects, subjects and mediations in consumption written by Daniel Miller and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2001 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Consumption written by Daniel Miller and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Miller
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415242677
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Consumption: Theory and issues in the study of consumption written by Daniel Miller and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2001 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert G. Dunn
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1592138713
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (921 download)
Download or read book Identifying Consumption written by Robert G. Dunn and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2008-06-28 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A challenging new theoretical approach to the study of consumption and identity.
Author : Antonio L. Rappa
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9789812380098
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Modernity & Consumption written by Antonio L. Rappa and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2002 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an examination of modernity and consumption with a non-Marxist, modernity-Resistance-theoretical frame (mRf).
Author : Zlatan Krajina
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351813269
Total Pages : 1052 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Urban Media and Communication written by Zlatan Krajina and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-23 with total page 1052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Urban Media and Communication traces central debates within the burgeoning interdisciplinary research on mediated cities and urban communication. The volume brings together diverse perspectives and global case studies to map key areas of research within media, cultural and urban studies, where a joint focus on communications and cities has made important innovations in how we understand urban space, technology, identity and community. Exploring the rise and growing complexity of urban media and communication as the next key theme for both urban and media studies, the book gathers and reviews fast-developing knowledge on specific emergent phenomena such as: reading the city as symbol and text; understanding urban infrastructures as media (and vice-versa); the rise of global cities; urban and suburban media cultures: newspapers, cinema, radio, television and the mobile phone; changing spaces and practices of urban consumption; the mediation of the neighbourhood, community and diaspora; the centrality of culture to urban regeneration; communicative responses to urban crises such as racism, poverty and pollution; the role of street art in the negotiation of ‘the right to the city’; city competition and urban branding; outdoor advertising; moving image architecture; ‘smart’/cyber urbanism; the emergence of Media City production spaces and clusters. Charting key debates and neglected connections between cities and media, this book challenges what we know about contemporary urban living and introduces innovative frameworks for understanding cities, media and their futures. As such, it will be an essential resource for students and scholars of media and communication studies, urban communication, urban sociology, urban planning and design, architecture, visual cultures, urban geography, art history, politics, cultural studies, anthropology and cultural policy studies, as well as those working with governmental agencies, cultural foundations and institutes, and policy think tanks.
Author : Jürgen Martschukat
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474298745
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Food, Power, and Agency written by Jürgen Martschukat and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-06 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grounded in the work of Roland Barthes, Bruno Latour, Pierre Bourdieu, and Michel Foucault, this exciting book uses food as a lens to examine agency and the political, economic, social, and cultural power which underlies every choice of food and every act of eating. The book is divided into three parts - National Characters; Anthropological Situations; Health – with each of the eight chapters exploring the power of food as well as the power relationships reflected and refracted through food. Featuring contributions from historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and cultural studies scholars from around the world, the book offers case studies of a diverse range -from German cuisine and ethnicity in San Francisco after the Gold Rush, through Italian cuisine in Japan, to 'ultragreasy bureks' and teenage fast food consumption in Slovenia. By directly engaging with questions of agency and power, the book pushes the field of food studies in new directions. An important read for students and researchers in food studies, food history, anthropology of food, and sociology of food.
Author : Ory Bartal
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526140012
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Critical design in Japan written by Ory Bartal and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-17 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of critical avant-garde design in Japan, which emerged during the 1960s and continues to inspire designers today. The practice communicates a form of visual and material protest drawing on the ideologies and critical theories of the 1960s and 1970s, notably feminism, body politics, the politics of identity, and ecological, anti-consumerist and anti-institutional critiques, as well as the concept of otherness. It also presents an encounter between two seemingly contradictory concepts: luxury and the avant-garde. The book challenges the definition of design as the production of unnecessary decorative and conceptual objects, and the characterisation of Japanese design in particular as beautiful, sublime or a product of ‘Japanese culture’. In doing so it reveals the ways in which material and visual culture serve to voice protest and formulate a social critique.
Author : Felix Fuhg
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030689689
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)
Download or read book London’s Working-Class Youth and the Making of Post-Victorian Britain, 1958–1971 written by Felix Fuhg and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the emergence of modern working-class youth culture through the perspective of an urban history of post-war Britain, with a particular focus on the influence of young people and their culture on Britain’s self-image as a country emerging from the constraints of its post-Victorian, imperial past. Each section of the book – Society, City, Pop, and Space – considers in detail the ways in which working-class youth culture corresponded with a fast-changing metropolitan and urban society in the years following the decline of the British Empire. Was teenage culture rooted in the urban experience and the transformation of working-class neighbourhoods? Did youth subcultures emerge simply as a reaction to Britain's changing racial demographic? To what extent did leisure venues and institutions function as laboratories for a developing British pop culture, which ultimately helped Britain re-establish its prominence on the world stage? These questions and more are answered in this book.
Author : Daniel Miller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134843119
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Acknowledging Consumption written by Daniel Miller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-09-20 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multi-disciplinary overview providing new theories, critical analyses and the latest reasearch on this very fashionable topic. Includes chapters on consumption studies in anthropology, economics, history, sociology and many more areas.
Author : Evdoxios Doxiadis
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785339346
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)
Download or read book Living Under Austerity written by Evdoxios Doxiadis and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2018-07-20 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its sovereign debt crisis in 2009, Greece has been living under austerity, with no apparent end in sight. This volume explores the effects of policies pursued by the Greek state since then (under the direction of the Troika), and how Greek society has responded. In addition to charting the actual effects of the Greek crisis on politics, health care, education, media, and other areas, the book both examines and challenges the “crisis” era as the context for changing attitudes and developments within Greek society.
Author : Frank Dikötter
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231511872
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (118 download)
Download or read book Exotic Commodities written by Frank Dikötter and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-27 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exotic Commodities is the first book to chart the consumption and spread of foreign goods in China from the mid-nineteenth century to the advent of communism in 1949. Richly illustrated and revealing, this volume recounts how exotic commodities were acquired and adapted in a country commonly believed to have remained "hostile toward alien things" during the industrial era. China was not immune to global trends that prized the modern goods of "civilized" nations. Foreign imports were enthusiastically embraced by both the upper and lower classes and rapidly woven into the fabric of everyday life, often in inventive ways. Scarves, skirts, blouses, and corsets were combined with traditional garments to create strikingly original fashions. Industrially produced rice, sugar, wheat, and canned food revolutionized local cuisine, and mass produced mirrors were hung on doorframes to ward off malignant spirits. Frank Dikötter argues that ordinary people were the least inhibited in acquiring these products and therefore the most instrumental in changing the material culture of China. Landscape paintings, door leaves, and calligraphy scrolls were happily mixed with kitschy oil paintings and modern advertisements. Old and new interacted in ways that might have seemed incongruous to outsiders but were perfectly harmonious to local people. This pragmatic attitude would eventually lead to China's own mass production and export of cheap, modern goods, which today can be found all over the world. The nature of this history raises the question, which Dikötter pursues in his conclusion: If the key to surviving in a fast-changing world is the ability to innovate, could China be more in tune with modernity than Europe?
Author : Janet L. Borgerson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Materiality, Agency, and the Constitution of Consuming Subjects written by Janet L. Borgerson and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acknowledging underlying theories of materiality encourages researchers to comprehend selves that form in relation to experiential modes of otherness - including aspects of material culture - and that emerge in contexts constituted through consumption practices and consumer culture. The called-for theoretical coherence and conceptual transparency point out the potential for understanding multiple investigative starting points, which draw upon materiality based notions of subject formation, intersubjectivity and subject/object relations, and moreover engage concerns over pre-emptively designating particular notions of relevant “entities,” such as subject and object, and their apparent boundaries, or lack thereof. In Miller's view (1987), material culture participates in the larger process of the development of any possible subject/subjectivity; that is, he insists upon the overall material environment's role in creating us as subjects/selves. Members of a consumer culture - in which the processes of consumption facilitate and constitute contexts basic to human life - engage in and are engaged by particular consumption activities, objects and meanings that have the potential to create, transform, intensify or call into question consumer subject identity.
Author : Linda Barone
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527537447
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Seriality Across Narrations, Languages and Mass Consumption written by Linda Barone and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions gathered in this volume define and discuss concepts, themes, and theories related to contemporary audiovisual seriality. The series investigated include Black Mirror, Game of Thrones, House of Cards, Penny Dreadful, Sherlock, Orange Is the New Black, Stranger Things, Vikings, and Westworld, to mention just some. Including contributions from social and media studies, linguistics, and literary and translation studies, this work reflects on seriality as a process of social, linguistic and gender/genre transformation. It explores the dynamics of reception, interaction, and translation; the relationship between authorship and mass consumption; the phenomena of multimodality, and intertextuality.
Author : Veronica Strang
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845456061
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Gardening the World written by Veronica Strang and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around the world, intensifying development and human demands for fresh water are placing unsustainable pressures on finite resources. Countries are waging war over transboundary rivers, and rural and urban communities are increasingly divided as irrigation demands compete with domestic desires. Marginal groups are losing access to water as powerful elites protect their own interests, and entire ecosystems are being severely degraded. These problems are particularly evident in Australia, with its industrialised economy and arid climate. Yet there have been relatively few attempts to examine the social and cultural complexities that underlie people's engagements with water. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in two major Australian river catchments (the Mitchell River in Cape York, and the Brisbane River in southeast Queensland), this book examines their major water using and managing groups: indigenous communities, farmers, industries, recreational and domestic water users, and environmental organisations. It explores the issues that shape their different beliefs, values and practices in relation to water, and considers the specifically cultural or sub-cultural meanings that they encode in their material surroundings. Through an analysis of each group's diverse efforts to 'garden the world', it provides insights into the complexities of human-environmental relationships.
Author : Veronica Strang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000190293
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book What Anthropologists Do written by Veronica Strang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Anthropology? Why should you study it? What will you learn? And what can you do with it? What Anthropologists Do answers all these questions. And more.Anthropology is an astonishingly diverse and engaged subject that seeks to understand human social behaviour. What Anthropologists Do presents a lively introduction to the ways in which anthropology's unique research methods and cutting-edge thinking contribute to a very wide range of fields: environmental issues, aid and development, advocacy, human rights, social policy, the creative arts, museums, health, education, crime, communications technology, design, marketing, and business. In short, a training in Anthropology provides highly transferable skills of investigation and analysis.The book will be ideal for any readers who want to know what Anthropology is all about and especially for students coming to the study of Anthropology for the first time.
Author : Elizabeth Shove
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000181472
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Time, Consumption and Everyday Life written by Elizabeth Shove and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-07 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Has material civilization spun out of control, becoming too fast for our own well-being and that of the planet? This book confronts these anxieties and examines the changing rhythms and temporal organization of everyday life. How do people handle hurriedness, burn-out and stress? Are slower forms of consumption viable? This volume brings together international experts from geography, sociology, history, anthropology and philosophy. In case studies covering the United States, Asia and Europe, contributors follow routines and rhythms, their emotional and political dynamics and show how they are anchored in material culture and everyday practice. Running themes of the book are questions of coordination and disruption; cycles and seasons; and the interplay between power and freedom, and between material and natural forces. The result is a volume that brings studies of practice, temporality and material culture together to open up a new intellectual agenda.
