The Sign of Burger: McDonald's and the Culture of Power: Labor in Crisis
Autor Joe L. Kincheloeen Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 apr 2002
So begins a complicated journey into the power of one of the most recognizable signs of American capitalism: The Golden Arches. The Sign of the Burger examines how McDonald's captures our imagination: as a shorthand for explaining the power of American culture; as a symbol of the strength of consumerism; as a bellwether for the condition of labor in a globalized economy; and often, for better or worse, a powerful educational tool that often defines the nature of culture for hundreds of millions the world over.
While many books have offered simple complaints of the power of McDonald's, Joe Kincheloe explores the real ways McDonald's affects us. We see him as a young boy in Appalachia, watching the Golden Arches going up as thehopefularrival of the modern into his rural world. And we travel with him around the world to see how this approach of the modern affects other people, either through excitement or through attempts at resisting McDonald's power, often in unfortunate ways. Through it all, Kincheloe makes clear, with lucidity and depth, the fact that McDonald's growth will in many ways determine both the nature of accepting and protesting its ever-expanding presence in our global world. Author note:
Joe L. Kincheloe is Professor of Education at Brooklyn College, and is co-editor, most recently, of Kinderculture: The Corporate Construction of Childhood.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781566399319
ISBN-10: 1566399319
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.8 kg
Editura: Temple University Press
Colecția Temple University Press
Seria Labor in Crisis
ISBN-10: 1566399319
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.8 kg
Editura: Temple University Press
Colecția Temple University Press
Seria Labor in Crisis
Cuprins
Introduction
1. Why McDonald's?
2. Hugging McDonald's
3. McDonald's as a Postmodern Phenomenon
4. McDonald's as Cultural Pedagogy
5. Winning Consent for Capital
6. The Struggle for the Sign of the Burger
References
Index
1. Why McDonald's?
2. Hugging McDonald's
3. McDonald's as a Postmodern Phenomenon
4. McDonald's as Cultural Pedagogy
5. Winning Consent for Capital
6. The Struggle for the Sign of the Burger
References
Index
Recenzii
"McDonald's has come to be a highly contested symbol of globalization and American commodity culture. Joe Kincheloe offers a multifaceted exploration of the battles over McDonald's throughout the world, of how it serves as a force of education and enculturation, and the ways that different audiences consume McDonald's as a source of meanings as well as (highly dubious) diet. Using a variety of sources and his own ethnographical research, Kincheloe provides the most many-sided critical analysis of McDonald's yet to appear." Douglas Kellner, George F. Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education, UCLA "A burger is never simply a burger." This is a case study of the capacity of neocolonial giants like Disney, Nike, Coca Cola, and, in particular, McDonald's to ingratiate themselves in worldwide markets and achieve cultural hegemony by promoting an ideology of markets. Academic collections at all levels." Choice "Kincheloe's study is a crucial tool for educators who are desperately seeking new educational resources that promote critical thinking, not only for themselves, but also for their students." Harvard Educational ReviewKincheloes work, written in an easy, fluid style peppered with (often horrific) statistics and public responses, is a useful cultural study of corporate capitalism
.For the anthropologist of work, this is an important book because it calls for a closer attention to the forms of discourses that mask conditions of labor and capital. Anthropology of Work Review
Descriere
A refreshingly sophisticated yet readable examination of the power of American cultureand burgers