Waste : consuming postwar Japan /
Siniawer, Eiko Maruko,
Waste : consuming postwar Japan / Eiko Maruko Siniawer. - Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, - x, 398 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
First published 2018
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-387) and index.
Introduction : meaning and value in the everyday -- Imperatives of waste -- Better living through consumption -- Wars against waste -- A bright stinginess -- Consuming desires -- Living the good life? -- Battling the time thieves -- Greening consciousness -- We are all waste conscious now -- Sorting things out -- Afterword : waste and well-being.
"A history of the many and changing ideas of waste in Japan from the mid-1940s to the present"--
9781501725845 9781501725852 9781501725869
2018000104
HC465.C6 / S745 2018
363.7280952
Waste : consuming postwar Japan / Eiko Maruko Siniawer. - Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, - x, 398 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
First published 2018
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-387) and index.
Introduction : meaning and value in the everyday -- Imperatives of waste -- Better living through consumption -- Wars against waste -- A bright stinginess -- Consuming desires -- Living the good life? -- Battling the time thieves -- Greening consciousness -- We are all waste conscious now -- Sorting things out -- Afterword : waste and well-being.
"A history of the many and changing ideas of waste in Japan from the mid-1940s to the present"--
9781501725845 9781501725852 9781501725869
2018000104
HC465.C6 / S745 2018
363.7280952