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... of Consumer Imperialism Paul Gilroy For me, reading Achille Mbembe’s absorbing piece (“African Modes of Self- FWriting,” Public Culture 14 [winter 2002]: 239–73) conjured up the well- worn modernist image of the critical philosopher as an escapologist: Initially imprisoned...

... as expectations by consumers. Increasingly, firms appeal directly to consumers in order to bring about technological changes that sometimes have damaging effects on the incomes of those very same people. The Strengthening of Consumerism and Consumer Identities Of course, one could argue that consumerism...

... in this essay is with a different aspect of the Freudianism-consumerism nexus, namely, the use of psychoana- lytic theory by market researchers and advertisers themselves to construct their campaigns, design their commodities, interpellate consumers, and infl uence their behavior through the mass media...

... Review Press. Draper, Theodore. 1962 . Castro's revolution: Myths and realities . New York: Praeger. Fernandes, Sujatha. 2003 . Island paradise, revolutionary utopia or hustler's haven? Consumerism and socialism in contemporary Cuban rap. Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 12 : 359...

...Claudia K. Grinnell Less than ten years after going mainstream, the Web returns to its roots as a read/write tool while entering a new, more social and participatory phase (Web 2.0) where the consumer's role morphs into that of “produser.” Copyright 2009 by Duke University Press 2009...

...Diane Barthel Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 A Consumer and a Gentleman Diane Barthel Culture, like nature, abhors a vacuum. The macho man may be in his decline, the object of derision in books like Real Men Don't Eat...

... of Pennsylvania Press. Spivak, Gayatri. 1989 . In a word: Interview with Ellen Rooney. differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 1 , no. 2: 124 -56. Thomas, Nicholas. 1999 . Possessions:Indigenous Art/Colonial Culture . London: Thames and Hudson. Urry, John. 1997 . Consuming places...

...Steven Kemper Copyright © 1993 by The University of Chicago 1993 The Nation Consumed: Buying and Believing in Sri Lanka Steven Kemper 1n the days when the study of nationalism stressed ideology...

...Bruce O’Neill This essay reflects upon the intimate entanglement of superfluity and boredom in postcommunist Bucharest, Romania, where the politics of social exclusion unfolds through the inability to participate in consumer practices and chronic underconsumption leaves the city’s most excluded...

... simultaneously as bearers of a pure Indian tradition untouched by consumer culture and as a condensed sign of a new consumerism marked by modern dress and sexuality (ibid.: 54–131). As women of lower caste and class backgrounds find roads to upward class mobility through pink-collar jobs, they simultaneously...

... of climate change. For instance, the groundwater sources in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will be destroyed not necessarily due to the predicted impacts of climate change but because they will soon be completely consumed. In response, the governments in the Arabian Peninsula, especially the UAE, advance...

... the disassembly and reassembly of broken consumer products. By examining the development of public sites of facilitated repair during nine months of ethnographic fieldwork, the essay untangles the emerging cultural project of repair in relation to the distinct forms of civic duty it brings to life. 2014...

... as a field within which knowledge is produced and legitimated, and also how these constructed knowledges are marketed and circulated to consuming publics. I focus on two spheres of knowledge production—the legal system and the media—to demonstrate how each contains technologies of truth-making, and I argue...

... relationships with users and consumers, communicating continuity with, appreciation of, and longing for aspects of time past. These relationships, falling along a spectrum from library-as-utility to library-as-simulation, can be mapped onto different kinds of nostalgic experience. References Benjamin...

...Lucia Hulsether When the Coca-Cola Company bankrolled a new National Center for Civil and Human Rights (NCCHR), it was reviving a century-long reformation: the project to produce cosmopolitan consumer citizenship as normative humanity and to incarnate global markets as beloved community. This essay...

... in terms of a socially conscious insistence on buying “sweat-free” goods that allow producers and consumers to enjoy more individualized products.40 As Salon.com writer Janelle Brown puts it: “Since cookie-cutter consumerism makes it difficult...

... of consumerism have tended to assume that consumer societies are societies at peace and that advertising in particular is averse to conditions of violent conflict. After all, the world advertising conjures is largely one of prosperity, pleasure, and secure aspirations. It promises the good life through...

... character of consumer goods and activities . Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Miller, Daniel. 1988 . Appropriating the state on the council estate. Man , n.s., 23 : 353 -72. Perec, Georges. 2005 [1965]. Les choses: Une histoire des années soixante ( Things: A story of the sixties ). Paris...

... and departure Road, water and air transportation are all avail- able, but use is linked to one’s socioeconomic position. Air travel is largely the domain of the cosmopolitan elite and the middle-class consumers; passengers travelling by boat are more...

..., Changing Cultures: Feminism, Youth and Consumerism (London: Sage Publications, 199 l), 167 (arguing that consumption is “about dreams and consolation, communication and confrontation, image and identity Carl Gardner and Julie Sheppard, Consuming Passion: The Rise of Retail Culture (London: Unwin...