Waste : consuming postwar Japan /
Siniawer, Eiko Maruko,
Waste : consuming postwar Japan / Eiko Maruko Siniawer. - Ithaca, London: Cornell University Press, 2018 - x, 398p. Photo; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references 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"--
9781501725852 (pdf) 9781501725869 (epub/mobi)
Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects--History.--Japan
Waste minimization--History.--Japan
Refuse and refuse disposal--Social aspects--History.--Japan
Japan--Economic conditions--1945-
Japan--Social conditions--1945-
363.7280952 / S61788w
Waste : consuming postwar Japan / Eiko Maruko Siniawer. - Ithaca, London: Cornell University Press, 2018 - x, 398p. Photo; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references 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"--
9781501725852 (pdf) 9781501725869 (epub/mobi)
Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects--History.--Japan
Waste minimization--History.--Japan
Refuse and refuse disposal--Social aspects--History.--Japan
Japan--Economic conditions--1945-
Japan--Social conditions--1945-
363.7280952 / S61788w