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Author:   Eiko Maruko Siniawer
Publisher:   Cornell University Press
Imprint:   Cornell University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781501725845

ISBN 10:   150172584
Pages:   414
Publication Date:   15 October 2018
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Meaning and Value in the Everyday Part One: Re-Civilization and Re-Enlightenment: Transitions of the Early Postwar Period, 1945-1971 1. The Imperatives of Waste 2. Better Living through Consumption Part Two: Shocks, Shifts, and Safeguards: Defending the Middle-Class Lifestyles, 1971-1981 3. Wars against Waste 4. A Bright Stinginess Part Three: 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 Four: 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

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Siniawer's Waste explores the cultural and social meanings of waste in post-WWII Japanese society. This is a ground-breaking social history of the essential but often overlooked aspects of modern middle-class living. --Yoshikuni Igarashi, Professor of History, Vanderbilt University, and author of Homecomings: The Belated Return of Japan's Lost Soldiers Waste is an original, brilliantly conceived analysis of the protean forms and formations of waste in Japan--from the aftermath of WWII to today. Ranging across a multiplicity of genres, Eiko Maruko Siniawer insightfully demonstrates how waste's many meanings constituted a potent signifier for the society's ambivalence about scarcity and prosperity, frugality and affluence, wealth and well-being. --William W. Kelly, Professor of Anthropology and Sumitomo Professor of Japanese Studies, Yale University, and author of The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers

Siniawer's Waste explores the cultural and social meanings of waste in post-WWII Japanese society. This is a ground-breaking social history of the essential but often overlooked aspects of modern middle-class living. -- Yoshikuni Igarashi, Professor of History, Vanderbilt University, and author of <I>Homecomings: The Belated Return of Japan's Lost Soldiers</I> Waste is an original, brilliantly conceived analysis of the protean forms and formations of waste in Japan-from the aftermath of WWII to today. Ranging across a multiplicity of genres, Eiko Maruko Siniawer insightfully demonstrates how waste's many meanings constituted a potent signifier for the society's ambivalence about scarcity and prosperity, frugality and affluence, wealth and well-being. -- William W. Kelly, Professor of Anthropology and Sumitomo Professor of Japanese Studies, Yale University, and author of <I>The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers</I>

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Eiko Maruko Siniawer is Class of 1955 Memorial Professor of History at Williams College. She is the author of Ruffians, Yakuza, Nationalists.

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