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...Commodified Spaces ...

... This chapter details the history of the NGO’s interventions in the village of Chicacnab, paying particular attention to its fostering of the ecotourism project as a means to promote conservation of the cloud forest. It foregrounds the tense relation between immaterial labor (qua commodified...

... Commercial art came to the fore in Japan during the period between the end of the Russo-Japanese War in 1905 and the onset of full-scale war in China in 1937, when many forms of culture were being popularized and commodified. The importation of new technologies from Europe and America beginning...

... of capital accumulation depend on domains that lie on the margins of or outside capitalism, including music. As a result, even as music continues to be commodified or assetized, it simultaneously functions as one of the “‘non-economic’ background conditions” identified by Nancy Fraser, a resource like social...

... into a quasi-public good. Yet for agents situated on other sides of streaming’s multisided market (labels, publishers, and the platforms themselves), music remains thoroughly commodified. On the one hand, on streaming platforms music appears to users as simply there, as something free for the taking, much...

..., visualizing, and commodifying the seemingly transformative social powers of electric energy. brightness illumination power energy entertainment industry ...

... in which media theorization has largely taken place in Japan—the space of hihyō . By using humor to work through issues of the commodified female body, and the restrictive national role assigned to it, Rokudenashiko hit a nerve that provoked a state reaction. Rokudenashiko operates at the fringes...