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Consumer culture and postmodernism

By: Featherstone, MikeMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: London Sage Publications Ltd. 2007 Edition: 2ndDescription: xxvii, 203 pISBN: 9781412910149Subject(s): Postmodernism | Consumers | Popular culture | Consumption (Economics) | Social evolutionDDC classification: 306 Summary: The First Edition of this contemporary classic can claim to have put 'consumer culture' on the map, certainly in relation to postmodernism. This expanded new edition includes: A fully revised preface that explores the developments in consumer culture since the first edition. Among the most noteworthy areas discussed are the effect of global warming on consumption, the rise of the new rich, changes in the North/South divide and the new diversity of consumer culture. A major new chapter on 'Modernity and the Cultural Question' An update on postmodernism and the development of contemporary theory after postmodernism. An account of multiple and alternative modernities. The challenges of consumer culture in Japan and China. The result is a book that shakes the boundaries of debate, from one of the foremost writers on culture and postmodernism of the present day. (https://in.sagepub.com/en-in/sas/consumer-culture-and-postmodernism/book227648#description)
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Table of contents:

Modern and Postmodern Theories Of Consumer Culture Towards a Sociology Of Postmodern Culture Cultural Change and Social Practice The Aestheticization of Everyday Life Lifestyle and Consumer Culture City Cultures and Postmodern Lifestyles Consumer Culture and Global Disorder Common Culture or Uncommon Cultures? The Globalization of Diversity Modernity and the Cultural Question

The First Edition of this contemporary classic can claim to have put 'consumer culture' on the map, certainly in relation to postmodernism. This expanded new edition includes:
A fully revised preface that explores the developments in consumer culture since the first edition. Among the most noteworthy areas discussed are the effect of global warming on consumption, the rise of the new rich, changes in the North/South divide and the new diversity of consumer culture.
A major new chapter on 'Modernity and the Cultural Question'
An update on postmodernism and the development of contemporary theory after postmodernism.
An account of multiple and alternative modernities.
The challenges of consumer culture in Japan and China.
The result is a book that shakes the boundaries of debate, from one of the foremost writers on culture and postmodernism of the present day.

(https://in.sagepub.com/en-in/sas/consumer-culture-and-postmodernism/book227648#description)

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