Screen LibraryConsuming life in post-bubble Japan : a transdisciplinary perspective /
This multidisciplinary book analyzes the contradictory coexistence of consumerism and environmentalism in contemporary Japan. It focuses on the dilemma that the diffusion of the concepts of sustainability and recycling has posed for everyday consumption practices, and on how these concepts have affe...
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Amsterdam University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Amsterdam : |
| Publication Dates: | [2018] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Consumption and sustainability in Asia ;
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| Summary: |
This multidisciplinary book analyzes the contradictory coexistence of consumerism and environmentalism in contemporary Japan. It focuses on the dilemma that the diffusion of the concepts of sustainability and recycling has posed for everyday consumption practices, and on how these concepts have affected, and were affected by, the production and consumption of art. Special attention is paid to the changes in consumption practices and environmental consciousness among the Japanese public that have occurred since the 1990s and in the aftermath of the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disasters o |
| Carrier Form: | 262 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9789462980631 9462980632 |
| Index Number: | HF5415 |
| CLC: | F713.55 |
| Call Number: | F713.55/C758-7 |