..., using the logic of capitalism, as not a problem to be removed but a viable consumer demographic. As fee-paying AOL members, advocates argued they had a right to host public rooms. This move toward collective and capitalist subjectivity mirrored contemporaneous trends in LGBTQ politics. America Online...

...This chapter explores a little-noticed aspect of American drug policy during the 1970s: a push for consumer protection in an era remembered primarily for its War on Drugs. The Controlled Substances Act of 1970 was not (just) a drug-war law. It was also designed to give regulators the power to rein...

... following the Great War. By 1920, advances in U.S. technologies in doll-making and the growth of U.S. doll manufacturing intersected with the rising tide of New Negro sentiment, expression, and enhanced political outlook. At the same time, the growth of mass consumerism, increase in leisure time...

...This chapterexamines a group of undocumented immigrant women from Nepal who wear fast fashion to labor at their body service jobs in a New York City nail salon. Contrary to the idea that consuming fast fashion is a leisure activity, this chapter suggests that fast-fashion consumption is a mandated...

... migration and the transformation of Filipino workers and their families into transnational consumer subjects. Facebook Immigration Immigrants Mobility Neoliberal Consumer Imperialism Ong Aihwa Subjectivity Tadiar Neferti Xina Transnational transnationalism Balikbayan Diaspora Advertisements...

... to a Barnes and Noble bookstore, a McDonald's restaurant, and a movie theater, along with the teens' uses of cellular phones, emerge as conflict-ridden sites. The chapter addresses the prominent role of consumer culture in shaping the lives of these urban dwellers and interprets the youths' extracurricular...

...-discrimination measures and enforcement, and consumer education. Community land trusts Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 Los Angeles Affordable Housing Plan Environmentalism Mount Laurel New Jersey Farm workers Community Reinvestment Act Taxation African Americans American Recovery...

... the book, offers an overview of the consumer challenge to cultivating Christian race representatives, and discusses popular black religious representation in various forms of entertainment in the twentieth century. The introduction discusses the organization of the book: part 1, “Representations...

... displayed themselves in plain sight, and minority supermodels did not appear until the 1970s and later. Second, consumer D.N.A. tests simplify mixed race via the figurative power of D.N.A., just as Census 2000 simplified mixed race via the figurative power of checking boxes. Third, Barack Obama's disclosure...

...This chapter explores two of the most popular explanations of environmental degradation currently found in environmental and public-policy circles: environmental economics and consumer-oriented environmentalism. According to the consumer sovereignty argument, consumers are the main drivers...

... workers, displaces communities, and despoils ecosystems. Taken together, their practices are an effort to imagine an alternative economy to industrial consumerism, though there is a tendency, common among utopians, for freegan devotees to see mainstream consumers as pitiable dupes of mass advertising...

... of modular forms of consumer mobility, along with the role of Hollywood in the emergence of multiplex as a manifestation of theatrical innovation in India. The chapter begins by providing a historical background on how America influenced India's exhibition infrastructure, paying special attention...

... migration immigration United States US corporate sponsorship urban redevelopment police workforce postindustrial city street history pathologization consumer capitalism regulation advocacy We don’t want the Home Depot to get up and leave. —Captain Himura One of the first challenges Captain...

... mainly for large-scale institutional uses, developers have experimented with consumer applications. These consumer applications encourage the cooperation of individual users in the process of biometric system development and institutionalization. Moreover, consumer application of biometrics are designed...

..., enjoying forms of entertainment, participating in China's burgeoning consumer culture, and constructing a “modern” self. Drawing on critical/cultural and feminist theories of subjectivity, power, and technology, the chapter theorizes mobile communication and migrant women's becoming...

... surrounding rural women and “backwardness.” Mobile phones allow women to participate in a form of consumer citizenship in contrast to the legal and social citizenship they are denied in the city. The chapter concludes by exploring more deeply the constitutive nature of gender and technology by presenting...

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...Chapter 7 is a tale of two environmental organizations that each deploy popular “short-form” media as tools to engage younger cohorts, moving them from environmental ideals into environmental action. While both organizations’ mediamaking challenges the consumer capitalist “myth of disposability...

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