Consumer culture theory in Asia : history and contemporary issues /: history and contemporary issues. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Yuko Minowa and Russell W. Belk.
• Editors: Minowa, Yuko; Belk, Russell W
• Contents: 1 Introduction Yuko Minowa and Russell W. Belk SECTION I History of Consumerism in Asia 2 The Long March of the Commodity in China Alison Hulme 3 Consumerism in Early Modern Japan: Food, Fashion, and Publishing Kazuo Usui SECTION II Consumer Identity Projects 4 Century of Humiliation and Consumer Culture: The Making of National Identity I-Chieh Michelle Yang, Juliana French, and Christina Lee 5 Predicting a Mother’s Role in Investing in Children’s Education: A Study on Autonomy and Empowerment from India Akshaya Viayalakshmi, Meng-Hsien (Jenny) Lin, and Sarah Ricks SECTION III Consumer Rituals 6 Gift-giving and Kinship-making: Male Phoenix in China Jia Cong and Xin Zhao 7 Solitary Death is Elsewhere: The Making of Memorial Community in Japan Yuko Minowa 8 The Work of Culture in Thai Theravāda Buddhist Death Rituals Rungpaka Amy Hackley SECTION IV Governance and Sustainability in Consumption Practices 9 Utopia and Dystopia: Consumer Privacy and China’s Social Credit System Eric Ping Hung Li, Guojun (Sawyer) He, Magnum Man Lok Lam, and Wing-sun Liu 10 The Thanatopolitics of Neoliberalism and Consumer Precarity Rohit Varman and Devi Vijay 11 Cold Chains in Hanoi and Bangkok: Changing Systems of Provision and Practice Jenny Rinkinen, Elizabeth Shove, and Mattijs Smits SECTION V Body, Technology, and Mass-Mediated Marketplace Ideologies 12 Market Versus Cultural Myth: A Skin-deep Analysis of the Fairness Phenomena in India Anoop Bhogal-Nair and Andrew Lindridge 13 Haptic Creatures: Tactile Affect and Human-Robot Intimacy in Japan Hirofumi Katsuno and Daniel White
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 658.8342095; Consumer behavior -- Asia; Consumption (Economics) -- Asia
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000533767; 9781000533729; 9781003111559
• Related ISBNs: 9780367629496
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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