Inhaltsangabe:
  • 1. Approaching Japan through the Study of Consumption
  • 2. Consumption and Urban Cultures in the Japanese City
  • 3. The Context of Desire : The Political Economy of Consumption
  • 4. Shopping and the Social Self
  • 5. Gender, Class and the internationalization of consumption
  • 6. Consuming bodies: Media and the Construction and Representation of the body
  • 7. Sites and Sights: The Consuming Eye and the Arts of the Imagination in Japanese Tourism
  • 8. Theorizing Consumption in Urban Japan.