Waste – Consuming Postwar Japan
Autor Eiko Maruko Siniaweren Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 oct 2018
Over the course of the long postwar, Japanese society understood waste variously as backward and retrogressive, an impediment to progress, a pervasive outgrowth of mass consumption, incontrovertible proof of societal excess, the embodiment of resources squandered, and a hazard to the environment. Siniawer also shows how an encouragement of waste consciousness served as a civilizing and modernizing imperative, a moral good, an instrument for advancement, a path to self-satisfaction, an environmental commitment, an expression of identity, and more. From the late 1950s onward, a defining element of Japan's postwar experience emerged: the tension between the desire for the privileges of middle-class lifestyles made possible by affluence and dissatisfaction with the logics, costs, and consequences of that very prosperity. This tension complicated the persistent search for what might be called well-being, a good life, or a life well lived. Waste is an elegant history of how people lived--how they made sense of, gave meaning to, and found value in the acts of the everyday.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781501725845
ISBN-10: 150172584X
Pagini: 414
Ilustrații: 18 Halftones, black and white
Dimensiuni: 168 x 234 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.76 kg
Editura: MB – Cornell University Press
ISBN-10: 150172584X
Pagini: 414
Ilustrații: 18 Halftones, black and white
Dimensiuni: 168 x 234 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.76 kg
Editura: MB – Cornell University Press
Descriere
In Waste, Eiko Maruko Siniawer innovatively explores the many ways in which the Japanese have thought about waste-in terms of time, stuff, money, possessions, and resources-from the immediate aftermath of World War II to the present. She shows how questions about waste were deeply embedded in the decisions of everyday life, reflecting the...