Consuming Life in Post-Bubble Japan (eBook, PDF)

A Transdisciplinary Perspective
Redaktion: Cwiertka, Katarzyna J.; Machotka, Ewa

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This multidisciplinary book analyses 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040790618
• Artikelnr.: 75563171

Autorenporträt

Katarzyna Cwiertka is professor Modern Japan Studies at the University of Leiden. Katarzyna J. Cwiertka is Chair of Modern Japan Studies at Leiden University and an established expert on the food history of modern Japan. Cwiertka is managing co-editor of the journal Global Food History and editor-in-chief of Worldwide Waste: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies. Ewa Machotka is associate professor of Japanese language and culture at Stockholm University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Notes to the Reader
Introduction
Post-Bubble Japanese Department Stores
Consumption of Fast Fashion in Japan
Konbini-Nation
Serving the Nation
Consuming Domesticity in Post-Bubble Japan
The Metamorphosis of Excess
Robot Reincarnation
Art and Consumption in Post-Bubble Japan
The Fate of Landscape in Post-War Japanese Art and Visual Culture
Consuming Eco-Art
Artistic Recycling in Japan Today
Notes on Contributors
Index