Waste : : Consuming Postwar Japan / / Eiko Maruko Siniawer.
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 de...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. MEANING AND VALUE IN THE EVERYDAY
- Part I. RE-CIVILIZATION AND RE-ENLIGHTENMENT. Transitions of the Early Postwar Period, 1945-1971
- 1. THE IMPERATIVES OF WASTE
- 2. BETTER LIVING THROUGH CONSUMPTION
- Part II. SHOCKS, SHIFTS, AND SAFEGUARDS. Defending Middle-Class Lifestyles, 1971-1981
- 3. WARS AGAINST WASTE
- 4. A BRIGHT STINGINESS
- Part III. ABUNDANT DUALITIES. Wealth and Its Discontents in the 1980s and Beyond
- 5. CONSUMING DESIRES
- 6. LIVING THE GOOD LIFE?
- 7. BATTLING THE TIME THIEVES
- Part IV. AFFLUENCE OF THE HEART. Identities and Values in the Slow-Growth Era, 1991-Present
- 8. GREENING CONSCIOUSNESS
- 9. WE ARE ALL WASTE CONSCIOUS NOW
- 10. SORTING THINGS OUT
- Afterword. WASTE AND WELL-BEING
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index