...This chapter discusses how the politics of consumption can both enliven and eviscerate broad public participation in technological decision making. It explores the current U.S. regulation of genetically engineered organisms (GEOs) by describing the discursive terrain on which the battles are being...

... to the semiotics of consumption: they have had a major impact on the political economy of all the societies engaged in these encounters, creating a web of profound entanglements. In ancient Mediterranean France, the possibilities for major transfers of basic food ingredients were limited. That is because well...

...This chapter portrays the revolution in the objects of consumption in Zouping that occurred from 1985 to 2012, while indicating that there has been less change in the social purposes for which consumption is undertaken. While drastic changes in the modes of transportation and communications...

...This chapter demonstrates how the general public resisted moral reform efforts through the subversive pursuit of pleasure. What early Americans concerned with virtue had disparagingly called “luxury” became a positive symbol of high-status consumption. With the rise of the Industrial Age, Americans...

...This book presents a social and cultural history of tobacco use in China from circa 1550 to the present. It analyzes the historical factors that shaped Chinese tobacco consumption over the longue durée while also contributing to an emerging historiography of Chinese consumption...

...From the seventeenth until at least the late nineteenth century, many Chinese women of all social ranks consumed tobacco just as their menfolk did. Granted, there were gendered differences in the location of consumption: Chinese men could smoke in public, but well-mannered women smoked privately...

... has been more hesitant than Egypt to lead the entry of global capital. The chapter also discusses the concept of “mere consumption,” which takes the place of modernist engines for constructing national identity. karaoke music Arabic language in Piano Bar Salamandra Christa al Attar Najah Damascus...

... in Victorian society and the representations of dead women as beautiful. The chapter is also concerned with consumption and production in terms of the meaning of fashion. “cult of chiffon ” femininity death and lingerie as term white goods as term women’s trade as term black clothing black lingerie...

... coarsewares at Tripolitania Libyan Valleys archaeological survey Syrtica ARS of Tripolitanian Red Slip ware African Red Slipped Pottery ARS Tunisian Africa Proconsularis bishoprics of gsur fortified farms Mauretanias datable sites of consumption North African agriculture North African Byzacena...

... greed neoliberalism village buffalo class everyday vote buying workers awareness commodities consumption exclusion freedom legitimacy military network participation struggle capitalism consumer factory inclusion infrastructure labor Marx Karl Nidhi Eoseewong Thaksinomics weak...

.... This chapter focuses on the latter half of the post-Neoglacial to speculate on the relationship between climate changes and their impact on consumption strategies in marine mammals such as seals, sea lions, and sea otters. The findings illustrate the importance of investigating patterns of marine mammal...

... in Western and African settings. In doing this, I explore similarities in the gendered entanglement of love, money, and consumption among women in vastly different places and historical periods, and I discuss the global underpinnings of this entanglement. Ferguson James globalization love sub Saharan...

... describe how young people in this setting historically came of age; their relationship formation processes; the changing socioeconomy among the Luo ethnic group over the twentieth century; and consequent shifts in attitudes toward mass education, salaried employment, beauty, money, and consumption. ayaki...

... and in Kenya in particular. The rest of the chapter explores how school complicates young women’s attempts to stay HIV free. Specifically, I explore the gendered construction of “needs” and its ties to consumption and modernity. I show how social structural processes in school (e.g., peer groups...

... in stamping out opium consumption; and by so doing, loosen Japan's control. The chapter notes that the Chinese in occupied areas were not as quiescent as resistance propaganda liked to suggest. Fuzi Miao gambling Japan Lin Bosheng Nanjing Nanking National Zhongyang University opium addiction...

...This chapter explores the way in which consumption itself has come to be seen as a center of meaning and value in the United States today, and looks at shopping malls as places that are potentially sacred centers for this activity. It suggests that to use the language of “religion” or the “sacred...

... MacKendrick chronicles these concerns, showing how individuals attempt to avoid exposure to toxics in the aisles of the grocery store using a practice she calls “precautionary consumption.” Through an innovative analysis of the history of environmental regulation in the United States, the advocacy work...

... as the French reputation for good taste. The female bourgeois consumer was a particularly charged figure because she represented consumption run amok. Critics feared that the marketplace compromised her morality and aesthetic discernment, with dire repercussions for domestic life and public order. This book...

... of self, including playing games, comparing themselves to other workers and guests, and forming meaningful and reciprocal relations with guests. Through their contact with hotel staff, guests learn how to behave in the luxury environment and come to see themselves as deserving of luxury consumption...

..., particularly the said unprecedented boom. This showed key linkages between neoliberal urban development and consumption. class consumers consumption ICSC International Council of Shopping Centers identity imaginaries infrastructure Latin America neoliberalism new middle classes real estate land...