Contemporary Urban Japan A Sociology of

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.

John Clammer is Professor of Comparative Sociology and Asian Studies at Sophia University, Tokyo.

Preface

ix

Acknowledgements

xi

Approaching Japan through the Study of Consumption

1

(25)

Consumption and Urban Cultures in the Japanese City

26

(25)

The Context of Desire: The Political Economy of Consumption

51

(17)

Shopping and the Social Self

68

(17)

Gender, Class and the Internationalization of Consumption

85

(25)

Consuming Bodies: Media and the Construction and Representation of the Body

110

(25)

Sites and Sights: The Consuming Eye and the Arts of the Imagination in Japanese Tourism

135

(17)

Theorizing Consumption in Urban Japan

152

(17)

References

169

(8)

Index

177

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