Consuming Life in Post-Bubble Japan: A Transdisciplinary Perspective: 1 (Consumption and Sustainability in Asia) - Hardcover

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Japan, consumption, art, commodification, recycling

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"A very adroit look at post-bubble Japan through its "social economics" and culture, from robots to garbage, fashion to food. I will use it with enthusiasm in graduate and undergraduate courses." --Merry White, Boston University

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"https://www.su.se/english/profiles/ewma6646-1.219429">Ewa Machotka is associate professor of Japanese language and culture at Stockholm University.|"https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/kasia-cwiertka#tab-1">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.

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PublisherAmsterdam University Press
Publication date2018
ISBN 10 9462980632
ISBN 13 9789462980631
BindingHardcover
Number of pages264
EditorCwiertka Katarzyna J., Machotka Ewa

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Cwiertka, Katarzyna J. [Editor]; Machotka, Ewa [Editor]; Meyer-Ohle, Hendrik [Contributor]; Assmann, Stephanie [Contributor]; Whitelaw, Gavin H. [Contributor]; Goldstein-Gidoni, Ofra [Contributor]; Gygi, Fabio [Contributor]; Robertson, Jennifer [Contributor]; Borggreen, Gunhild [Contributor]; Michio, Hayashi [Contributor];

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Consuming Life in Post-Bubble Japan: A Transdisciplinary Perspective (Consumption and Sustainability in Asia)

Ewa Machotka; Katarzyna J. Cwiertka

Published by Amsterdam University Press, 2018

ISBN 10: 9462980632 ISBN 13: 9789462980631

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover, 262 pages, NOT ex-library. Last pages are slightly wavy (book is not moisture-damaged). Interior is clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Short creases to spine ends externally. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Contents: Introduction [Consumption; Sustainability; Post-bubble Era and Research on Consumption; Konbini, Landscape, and Sustainable Art; Works Cited]; 1: Post-Bubble Japanese Department Stores: The Need to Search for New Paradigms / Hendrik Meyer-Ohle [Introduction; Department Stores in Japan; Educating Customers: Is My Diamond the Right Size? Am I Wearing the Right Dress?; Developing New Customer Groups; Mangos on Marine Day: Post-bubble Department Stores; Websites Consulted]; 2: Consumption of Fast Fashion in Japan: Local Brands and Global Environment / Stephanie Assmann [Introduction; Background: Social Stratification and Consumer Behaviour; Declining Incomes and Consumer Expenditures; Fast Retailing: The Outdoor Brand UNIQLO; Ryohin Keikaku: The Label without a Label - Mujirushi Ryohin; Fast Fashion and Sustainability; International Competitors: ZARA and H&M; A High-end Fashion Retailer: Louis Vuitton; Significance of Price, Brand, Quality, and Sustainability: The Post-bubble Consumer; Company Websites]; 3: Konbini-Nation: The Rise of the Convenience Store in Post-Industrial Japan / Gavin H. Whitelaw [Introduction; Coming of Age with Konbini; Relocalizing Konbini; Convenience Becoming 'Konbini'; Shifting Perceptions; Konbini Panics and Convenience Concerns; 'Konbinize Me': Waste and Want; 'Between' Places; Conclusion]; 4: Serving the Nation: The Myth of Washoku / Katarzyna J. Cwiertka [Introduction; What's in a Name? The UNESCO Nomination; National Branding and Food Self-sufficiency; Conclusion; Film Cited]; 5: Consuming Domesticity in Post-bubble Japan / Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni [Hanako Tribe: Single Women as Hedonistic Consumers; Production of New Consuming Tribes: Women's Magazines at the Burst of the Bubble; New-type Housewives as a Post-bubble Return to 'Traditional' Gender Roles?; Female Domesticity Is Fun: Marketing the Joy of Housewifery; Tradition in Fashionable Wear: Designer Aprons as Symbols of the New Femininity; Female Beauty and Domesticity as a New Kind of a National Spirit; Conclusion]; 6: Metamorphosis of Excess: 'Rubbish Houses' and the Imagined Trajectory of Things in Post-bubble Japan / Fabio Gygi [Introduction; Attack of the Rubbish Aunt!; Gomi Yashiki as the Uncanny; Consuming the Bubble; Exaltedness of the New; Rendering Absent; Secondhandedness and mottainai; 'A Complicated Emotion': Taguchi's 'Jamira'; Conclusion]; 7: Robot Reincarnation: Rubbish, Artefacts, and Mortuary Rituals / Jennifer Robertson [Rubbish, Art, and Artefacts; Robots and Rubbish: Consumption and Disposal; Robot Reincarnation]; 8: Art and Consumption in Post-bubble Japan: From Postmodern Irony to Shared Engagement / Gunhild Borggreen [Introduction: Japan as Consumer Society; Artist as Ethnographer; Representations of Consumption; Art as Consumption; Community-based Consumption; Conclusion]; 9: Fate of Landscape in Post-War Japanese Art and Visual Culture / Hayashi Michio [A.K.A. Serial Killer and the Extinction of Landscape; PROVOKE and the Discover Japan Campaign; Lee U-Fan's Aesthetics: Phenomenology and Structuralism; Kawabata Yasunari and His Hawai'i Lecture; Karatani Kojin's Theory of Landscape; Long Epilogue: Sugimoto Hiroshi and the Notion of Post-landscape]; 10: Consuming Eco-Art: Satoyama at the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2012 / Ewa Machotka [Introduction; Satoyama and Sustainable Art; Satoyama Art and 'the Festivalization of Culture'; Conclusions]; 11: Artistic Recycling in Japan Today: A Curator's Perspective / Kasuya Akiko ['Arts and Memories': Imamura Ryosuke and Kotani Shinsuke; Eternal Flow: Miroslaw Balka and Kamoji Koji; Displacement ? Chaos and Reorder: Morisue Yumiko, Terada Shuko, and Nohara Kenji]; Notes on Contributors; Index. Seller Inventory # 006530

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. The bursting of the economic bubble in the 1990s shook the very foundation of the post-war economic 'miracle' and marked the beginning of a gradual sh ift in the environmental consciousness of the Japanese. Yet, it by no means removed consumption from the pivotal position it occupied within Japanese society. Consuming Life in Post-Bubble Japan argues that consumption in Jap an today is no longer simply a component of everyday economic activities, b ut rather a reflection of a society guided by the 'logic of late capitalism '. The volume pins down the contradictory nature of the setting in which co nsuming occurs in Japan today: the veneration of material comfort and conve nience on the one hand, and the new rhetoric of recycling and energy conser vation on the other. Theoretical insights developed as part of an art-histo rical enquiry, such as notions of socially engaged art and its critique, of fer a new paradigm for investigating this dilemma. By combining case studie s analysing the production and consumption of contemporary art with ethnogr aphic material related to ordinary commodities and shopping, this volume pr ovides a novel, transdisciplinary approach to exploring how a 'society of c onsumers' operates in post-bubble Japan and how contemporary life is a 'con suming project'. Seller Inventory # RWARE0000067676

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