CONSUMER CULTURE AND POSTMODERNISM by Mike Featherstone ( 9781412910149 )

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CONSUMER CULTURE AND POSTMODERNISM

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Mike Featherstone

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SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC

Pub. date:

11 July, 2007

Edition:

2nd Revised edition

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Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society

Pages:

232

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The First Edition of this contemporary classic can claim to have put 'consumer culture' on the map, certainly in relation to postmodernism. Updated throughout, 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. 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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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 editiona major new chapter on 'Modernity and the Cultural Question'an update on postmodernism and the development of contemporary theory after postmodernisman account of multiple and alternative modernitiesthe 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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