Consumption and the Globalization Project International Hegemony and the Annihilation of Time

by Comor, Edward A.

• ISBN13: 9780230522244
• ISBN10: 0230522246
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-07-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This volumes examines commodity consumption both as an ongoing problem for capital and a complex mediator of the post-Cold War political economy. Comor assesses consumption as a core but contradictory nodal point in contemporary world (dis)order developments arguing that capitalist consumption--as a political, economic and sociological institution--facilitates efforts to rule through consent. However, as a result of its constitutive influence, consumption also mediates how vested interests (e.g., the American state and its opponents) conceptualize desirable, feasible, and imaginable strategies.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Power, Hegemony and the Institution of Consumption

The Birth of Capitalist Consumption: Modernity and the Abstraction of Relations

Global Civil Society or Global Consumer Society?

Empire and Consumption: Contradictions

Conclusion

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