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Contemporary Urban Japan: A Sociology of Consumption (Studies in Urban and Social Change)

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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.

Author(s): John Clammer
Edition: 1
Year: 1997

Language: English
Pages: 200

CONTEMPORARY URBAN JAPAN: A SOCIOLOGY OF CONSUMPTION......Page 1
Contents......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 14
1 Approaching Japan through the Study of Consumption......Page 16
2 Consumption and Urban Cultures in the Japanese City......Page 41
3 The Context of Desire: The Political Economy of' Consumption......Page 66
4 Shopping and the Social Self......Page 83
5 Gender, Class and the Internationalization of Consumption......Page 100
6 Consuming Bodies: Media and the Construction and Representation of the Body......Page 125
7 Sites and Sights: The Consuming Eye and the Arts of the Imagination in Japanese Tourism......Page 150
8 Theorizing Consumption in Urban Japan......Page 167
References......Page 184
Index......Page 192