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9780631203018

Contemporary Urban Japan A Sociology of Consumption

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  • ISBN13:

    9780631203018

  • ISBN10:

    063120301X

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1997-12-08
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

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 Biography

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

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Acknowledgements xi
Approaching Japan through the Study of Consumption
1(25)
Consumption and Urban Cultures in the Japanese City
26(25)
The Context of Desire: The Political Economy of Consumption
51(17)
Shopping and the Social Self
68(17)
Gender, Class and the Internationalization of Consumption
85(25)
Consuming Bodies: Media and the Construction and Representation of the Body
110(25)
Sites and Sights: The Consuming Eye and the Arts of the Imagination in Japanese Tourism
135(17)
Theorizing Consumption in Urban Japan
152(17)
References 169(8)
Index 177

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