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Consumption, Media and Culture in South Africa: Perspectives on Freedom and the Public

Editat de Mehita Iqani, Bridget Kenny
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 ian 2018
This book is the first of its kind to bring together a collection of critical scholarly work on consumer culture in South Africa, exploring the cultural, political, economic, and social aspects of consumption in post-Apartheid society.
From sushi and Japanese diplomacy to Queen Sophie’s writhing gown, from middle class Sowetan golfers to an indebted working class citizenry, from wedding websites to wedding nostalgia, from the liberation of consuming to the low wage labour of selling, the chapters in this book demonstrate a variety of themes, showing that to start with consumption, rather than ending with it, allows for new insights into long-standing areas of social research. By mapping, exploring and theorizing the diverse aspects of consumption and consumer culture, the volume collectively works towards a fresh set of empirically rooted conceptual commentaries on the politics, economics, and social dynamics of modern South Africa. This effort, in turn, can serve as a foundation for thinking less parochially about neoliberal power and consumer culture.
On a global scale, studying consumption in South Africa matters because in some ways the country serves as a microcosm for global patterns of income inequality, race-based economic oppression, and hopes for the material betterment of life. By exploring what consumption means on the ‘local’ scale in South Africa, the possibility arises to trace new global links and dissonances. This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Arts.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781138299931
ISBN-10: 1138299936
Pagini: 184
Dimensiuni: 174 x 246 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction – Critical consumption studies in South Africa: roots and routes  1. Chewing on Japan: consumption, diplomacy and Kenny Kunene’s nyotaimori scandal  2. Agency and affordability: being black and ‘middle class’ in South Africa in 1989  3. Sartorial excess in Mary Sibande’s ‘Sophie’  4. Queer skin, straight masks: same-sex weddings and the discursive construction of identities and affects on a South African website  5. The promise of happiness: desire, attachment and freedom in post/apartheid South Africa  6. Retail, the service worker and the polity: attaching labour and consumption  7. Contradictions in consumer credit: innovations in South African super-exploitation  8. Trading in freedom: rethinking conspicuous consumption in post-apartheid political economy

Descriere

This book is the first of its kind to bring together a collection of critical scholarly work on consumer culture in South Africa, exploring the cultural, political, economic, and social aspects of consumption in post-Apartheid society. By mapping, exploring and theorizing the diverse aspects of consumption and consumer culture, the volume collectively works towards a fresh set of empirically rooted conceptual commentaries on the politics, economics, and social dynamics of modern South Africa. This effort, in turn, can serve as a foundation for thinking less parochially about neoliberal power and consumer culture. This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Arts.