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Passionate Modernity: Sexuality, Gender, Class and Consumption in India
Srivastava
Manufacturer: Routledge
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ASIN: 0415424151 |
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P Combining historical and ethnographic analysis, this book deals with the making of the heterosexual imagination from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present in the Indian context. /P P This unique book uses methods from anthropology, cultural studies and history to explore the making of modern cultures of sexuality in India. It provides an analysis of the sexual and domestic politics of the period by focusing on the vast corpus of publications and journals on sexology from the 1920s to the 1940s, and links Indian activities with those in other parts of the world. The author analyzes material that has thus far been outside the purview of scholarly studies, namely, ‘footpath pornography’, magazines such as EM Sexology Mirror /EM (in Hindi), women’s magazines dealing explicitly with sex and sexuality. /P
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The recent transnational reach of Japanese television dramas in East and Southeast Asia is unprecedented, and not simply in terms of the range and scale of diffusion. Many young Asians feel such intense sympathy toward the characters in Japanese dramas, that they cope with their own lives by emulating the lives on screen. Through the empirical analysis of how Japanese youth dramas are (re)produced, circulated, regulated, and consumed in East and Southeast Asia, each chapter in this volume variously explores the ways in which intra-Asian cultural flows highlight cultural resonance and asymmetry in the region under the decentering processes of globalization. Key questions include: What is the nature of Japanese cultural power and influence in the region and how is it historically overdetermined? How is it similar to and different from "Americanization" and other Asian cultural sub-centers? What kinds of images and sense of intimacy and distance are perceived through the reception of Japanese youth dramas?
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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the issues, concepts and theories through which people have tried to understand consumer culture throughout the modern period, and puts the current state of thinking into a broader context.Thematically organized, the book shows how the central aspects of consumer culture - such as needs, choice, identity, status, alienation, objects, culture - have been debated within modern theories, from those of earlier thinkers such as Marx and Simmel to contemporary forms of post-structuralism and postmodernism. This approach introduces consumer culture as a subject which - far from being of narrow or recent interest - is intimately tied to the central issues of modern times and modern social thought.With its reviews of major theorists set within a full account of the development of the subject, this book should be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students in the many disciplines which now study consumer culture, including communications and cultural studies, anthropology and history.
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Great Summary on the Ideas Around Consumer Culture.......2007-09-17
I liked this book a lot and found it very useful to help me understand the origins of consumer culture in western civilization, and the different views and criticisms around it. I recommend it if you are interested in the origins, theories and history surrounding consumer culture today.
comprehensive and objective.......2000-01-24
Slater thoroughly examines multiple and diverse theories addressing the whys, whens, and hows of consumption. He captures many of the paradoxes of "consumption" and "culture" without passing judgment on consumption. This book will give you an historical view of the role consumption has played in western societies, as well as an examination of some of consumption's current functions (identity formation, status signification, etc.). An excellent overview text for courses addressing consumption, but also a readable and thought-provoking discourse on consumption.
The indispensible and accessible introduction to this field........1998-10-14
Very readable, provocative; a superb course textbook. Makes the subject come alive.
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From cultural studies, sociology, media studies, gender studies and elsewhere there have been a spate of books recently which have attempted to characterize the state of modernity. Many of these have also argued that what is required is an ethnographic work to determine how far these supposed trends actually apply to a given population. This book explicitly accepts this challenge and, in so doing, demonstrates the potential of modern anthropology studies. It starts by summarizing some debates on modernity and then argues that the Caribbean island of Trinidad is particularly apt for such a study given the origins of its population in slavery and indentured labour, both forms of extreme social rupture.The particular focus of this book is on mass consumption and the way goods and imported images such as soap opera have been used to express and develop a number of key contradictions of modernity. It will be of interest to anthropologists looking for a new potential for the discipline, as well as students in other fields who will be interested in the new contribution of anthropology to their debates.
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Place, Modernity, and the Consumer's World: A Relational Framework for Geographical Analysis
Robert David Sack
Manufacturer: The Johns Hopkins University Press
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Complicated Lives: The Malaise of Modernity
Michael Willmott , and
William Nelson
Manufacturer: Wiley
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ASIN: 0470012633 |
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Complicated Lives examines the greatest conundrum of the modern world: why, despite being richer, healthier and more empowered than ever before, do we continue to feel threatened, under pressure and stressed? There's no denying that we've never had it so good, yet the stark truth is that levels of happiness are unchanged since the 1950s. Offering strategies and insights for avoiding 'the malaise of modernity' whilst exploiting positive experiences the 21st century has to offer, Michael Willmott and William Nelson take readers on a journey of self-discovery into the realities of life in today's complex, multi-channel world.
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Complicated Lives examines the greatest conundrum of the modern world: why, despite being richer, healthier and more empowered than ever before, do we continue to feel threatened, under pressure and stressed? There's no denying that we've never had it so good, yet the stark truth is that levels of happiness are unchanged since the 1950s. Offering strategies and insights for avoiding 'the malaise of modernity' whilst exploiting positive experiences the 21st century has to offer, Michael Willmott and William Nelson take readers on a journey of self-discovery into the realities of life in today's complex, multi-channel world.
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From Rugs to Riches: Housework, Consumption and Modernity in Germany
Jennifer Ann Loehlin
Manufacturer: Berg Publishers
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How do technological and cultural developments interact to affect consumption? What do ways of using household goods in specific historical contexts tell us about individual and collective identities? Do changes in consumption patterns emancipate social groups or reinforce existing structures of power?The 'economic miracle' experienced by West Germany in the 1950s and 1960s had profound effects on everyday life and gender relations. This book reflects the growing need for historical research on leisure and consumption in the modern period and provides a very entertaining and carefully researched study of ideas about women, men, housework, consumption, and modernity. It contrasts the virtual reality presented by advertisements with the important qualitative changes in household appliances and how they affected everyday life and gender roles. New products claimed to make housework easier, but the idea of substituting money for labor contrasted with the ideal of the thrifty, hard-working housewife and a clear division of gender roles. The author examines a broad range of issues encompassing the transformation of household appliances from luxuries to necessities, the threat of consumer debt, men and housework, women and technology, and labor and leisure in the modern household.This timely book represents a significant contribution to the following areas: material culture, German history, women's history, sociology, media/cultural studies and anthropology.
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Excellent book on the growth of Germany.......2000-05-16
I found this book to be an informative and thorough text on the growth of Germany from its adolescent childhood before the industrial revolution to its mature feminine stature as a strong European power.
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Modernity and Consumption
Antonio L. Rappa
Manufacturer: World Scientific Publishing Company
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ASIN: 9812380094 |
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Easy Reading, Life Changing.......2006-02-27
This was an easy book to read. We also learnt alot about the differences between modernity and consumption in public and private areas of life. We would recommend this to people who want to know more about modern history and modern politics. Intellectuals who are interested in simple books that explain the complex problems of life such as consumption and development are gonna find this book really great!
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Museums and Modernity: Art Galleries and the Making of Modern Culture (Leisure, Consumption and Culture)
Nick Prior
Manufacturer: Berg Publishers
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Short-listed for the Philip Abrams Memorial Prize 2003
Museums have been the subject of intense debate in recent years and their history and development raise important questions. What was 'modern' about the art museum? Why did museums emerge when and where they did? How were museums involved with the development of modern art worlds? What was the relationship between art galleries and their audiences and who were the key people involved with their inception?
Focusing on the role of national art galleries in continental Europe, England and Scotland, this book explores in depth the interrelationship between artistic and exhibitionary forms, as well as between power and governance in those places where the roots of modern culture were being laid most visibly. Drawing upon debates concerning modernity, Prior investigates how the boundaries of art and culture have been determined within the museum world. In particular, he looks at the interface between the project of the nation and the gallery and how galleries were involved in making certain social groups or bodies feel 'at home' and others excluded.
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Elaborating on the concepts first introduced in Global Public Goods, this book addresses the long overdue issue of how to adjust the concept of public goods to today's economic and political realities. The production of global public goods requires the orchestration of initiatives by a large number of diverse actors across different levels and sectors. It may require the collaboration of governments, business and civil society, and in most cases it almost certainly calls for an effective linkage of the local, national, regional, and global levels. In light of today's new realities, this book examines a series of managerial and political challenges that pertain to the design and implementation of production strategies and the monitoring and evaluation of global public goods provision.As participatory decision-making enhances the political support for - and thus the effectiveness of - certain policy decisions, this volume offers suggestions on a number of pragmatic policy reforms for bringing the global public more into public policy making on global issues. Nine case studies examine the importance of the global public good concept from the viewpoint of developing countries, exploring how and where the concerns of the poor and the rich overlap.Providing Global Public Goods offers important and timely suggestions on how to move in a more feasible and systematic way towards a fairer process of globalization that works in the interests of all.
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Great analysis on ways to go about providing Public Goods .......2005-02-05
I think that this book closes the knowledge gap surrounding this topic. It is one thing to theorize about the benefits or negative impacts of global public goods (or bads) and another to suggest ways to go about dealing with GPG. This book is extremely enlightening and presents realistic solutions!
Perfect Follow-up.......2004-06-02
Global Public Goods and Multilateralism must intertwine in order for progress and provision to come about. This is an idea that is so often neglected and forgotten. This book places an importance role that nations must carry out...it also provides recommendations for issues that arise in the midst of GPG provision. This book does not negate the global issues that exist within and surrounding the international realm...yet the book does a fabulous job on highlighting the importance of addressing these issues as a means of furthering the progress of Global Public Goods.
Thought Provoking.......2004-06-02
This books is an excellent follow-up of the Global Public Goods: International Cooperation in the 21st Century. It helped me visual and understand the provisionary measures needed to bring about GPGs.
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This collection examines the significance of partnership-based approaches to the modernization of employment relations. Drawing from the work of leading researchers, the contemporary interest in partnership is situated within a historical, political and practical context. Particular attention is given to exploring and understanding the practices and experiences of partnership at the workplace.
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Trade Policy Review, India, 1998 (Trade Policy Review)
Berman Press
Manufacturer: Bernan Press
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Trade Policy Review: India 1998 (Trade Policy Review Series)
World Trade Organization
Manufacturer: Bernan Press
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ASIN: 0890591024 |
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- Unleashing the Ideavirus
- Using Surveys to Value Public Goods: The Contingent Valuation Method (RFF Press)
- 2003-2004 Annual Supplement to The Piano Book
- A Journey into the Heroic Environment: A Personal Guide for Creating Great Customer Transactions Using Eight Universal Shared Values
- Advanced Email Marketing
- Advertising Research: The Internet, Consumer Behavior and Stategy
- Affirmative Action (Impact Books)
- Agile Competitors and Virtual Organizations: Strategies for Enriching the Customer (Industrial Engineering)
- Always Hungry, Never Greedy: Food and the Expression of Gender in a Melanesian Society
- American Dreams in Mississippi: Consumers, Poverty, & Culture, 1830-1998
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