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Consuming Life in Post-Bubble Japan : A Transdisciplinary Perspective / Ewa Machotka, Katarzyna J. Cwiertka.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Consumption and Sustainability in AsiaPublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource : 20 halftones, 3 line drawingsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789048530021
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 339.470952
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Notes to the Reader -- Introduction / J.Cwiertka, Katarzyna / Machotka, Ewa -- Post-Bubble Japanese Department Stores: The Need to Search for New Paradigms / Meyer-Ohle, Hendrik -- Consumption of Fast Fashion in Japan: Local Brands and Global Environment / Assmann, Stephanie -- Konbini-Nation: The Rise of the Convenience Store in Post-Industrial Japan / H. Whitelaw, Gavin -- Serving the Nation: The Myth of Washoku / J. Cwiertka, Katarzyna -- Consuming Domesticity in Post-Bubble Japan / Goldstein-Gidoni, Ofra -- The Metamorphosis of Excess: 'Rubbish Houses' and the Imagined Trajectory of Things in Post-Bubble Japan / Gygi, Fabio -- Robot Reincarnation: Rubbish, Artefacts, and Mortuary Rituals / Robertson, Jennifer -- Art and Consumption in Post-Bubble Japan: From Postmodern Irony to Shared Engagement / Borggreen, Gunhild -- The Fate of Landscape in Post-War Japanese Art and Visual Culture / Michio, Hayashi -- Consuming Eco-Art: Satoyama at the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2012 / Machotka, Ewa -- Artistic Recycling in Japan: Today A Curator's Perspective / Akiko, Kasuya -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
Title is part of eBook package: AUP eBook Package 2016-2018Title is part of eBook package: Amsterdam University Press eBook Package 2018Title is part of eBook package: Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook PackageSummary: 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 of March 2011.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Notes to the Reader -- Introduction / J.Cwiertka, Katarzyna / Machotka, Ewa -- Post-Bubble Japanese Department Stores: The Need to Search for New Paradigms / Meyer-Ohle, Hendrik -- Consumption of Fast Fashion in Japan: Local Brands and Global Environment / Assmann, Stephanie -- Konbini-Nation: The Rise of the Convenience Store in Post-Industrial Japan / H. Whitelaw, Gavin -- Serving the Nation: The Myth of Washoku / J. Cwiertka, Katarzyna -- Consuming Domesticity in Post-Bubble Japan / Goldstein-Gidoni, Ofra -- The Metamorphosis of Excess: 'Rubbish Houses' and the Imagined Trajectory of Things in Post-Bubble Japan / Gygi, Fabio -- Robot Reincarnation: Rubbish, Artefacts, and Mortuary Rituals / Robertson, Jennifer -- Art and Consumption in Post-Bubble Japan: From Postmodern Irony to Shared Engagement / Borggreen, Gunhild -- The Fate of Landscape in Post-War Japanese Art and Visual Culture / Michio, Hayashi -- Consuming Eco-Art: Satoyama at the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2012 / Machotka, Ewa -- Artistic Recycling in Japan: Today A Curator's Perspective / Akiko, Kasuya -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

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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 of March 2011.

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