CONTEMPORARY URBAN JAPAN: A SOCIOLOGY OF CONSUMPTION; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Approaching Japan through the Study of Consumption; 2 Consumption and Urban Cultures in the Japanese City; 3 The Context of Desire: The Political Economy of' Consumption; 4 Shopping and the Social Self; 5 Gender, Class and the Internationalization of Consumption; 6 Consuming Bodies: Media and the Construction and Representation of the Body; 7 Sites and Sights: The Consuming Eye and the Arts of the Imagination in Japanese Tourism; 8 Theorizing Consumption in Urban Japan; References; Index
Summary
This volume demonstrates a fresh approach to urban studies as well as a new way of looking at contemporary Japan which links economy and society in an innovative way
