Clammer Contemporary Urban Japan

A Sociology of Consumption
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-9927-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 200 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Studies in Urban and Social Change

This volume demonstrates a fresh approach to urban studies as well as a new way of looking at contemporary Japan which links economy and society in an innovative way.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clammer, John

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
Acknowledgements.
1. Approaching Japan through the Study of Consumption.
2. Consumption and Urban Cultures in the Japanese City.
3. The Context of Desire.
4. Shopping and the Social Self.
5. Gender, Class and the Internationalization ofConsumption.
6. Consuming Bodies: Media and the Construction andRepresentation of the Body.
7. Sites and Sights: The Consuming Eye and the Arts of theImagination in Japanese Tourism.
8. Theorizing Consumption in Urban Japan.
References.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

John Clammer is Professor of Comparative Sociology and Asian Studies at Sophia University, Tokyo.