TY  - BOOK
AU  - Featherstone, Mike
TI  - Consumer culture and postmodernism
SN  - 9781412910149
U1  - 306 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - London
PB  - Sage Publications Ltd.
KW  - Postmodernism
KW  - Consumers
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - Consumption (Economics)
KW  - Social evolution
N1  - 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
N2  - 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.

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ER  -