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.
Cuprins
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 of
Consumption.
6. Consuming Bodies: Media and the Construction and
Representation of the Body.
7. Sites and Sights: The Consuming Eye and the Arts of the
Imagination in Japanese Tourism.
8. Theorizing Consumption in Urban Japan.
References.
Index.
Despre autor
John Clammer is Professor of Comparative Sociology and Asian Studies at Sophia University, Tokyo.
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