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Consumption and the globalization project : international hegemony and the annihilation of time / Edward A. Comor.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: International political economy seriesPublisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2008Description: xiii, 211 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0230522246 (alk. paper)
  • 9780230522244 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 339.47 22
LOC classification:
  • HC79.C6 C6354 2008
Contents:
1. Introduction -- 2. Power, Hegemony and the Institution of Consumption -- 3. The Birth of Capitalist Consumption -- 4. Global Civil Society or Global Consumer Society? -- 5. 'developing' Political Economies and Global Consumer Society -- 6. Neo-Imperialism, Consumption and the Crisis of Time -- 7. Conclusion.
Summary: "This volumes examines commodity consumption both as an ongoing problem for capital and a complex mediator of the post-Cold War political economy. Comor assesses consumption as a core but contradictory nodal point in contemporary world (dis)order developments arguing that capitalist consumption--as a political, economic and sociological institution--facilitates efforts to rule through consent. However, as a result of its constitutive influence, consumption also mediates how vested interests (e.g., the American state and its opponents) conceptualize desirable, feasible, and imaginable strategies."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction -- 2. Power, Hegemony and the Institution of Consumption -- 3. The Birth of Capitalist Consumption -- 4. Global Civil Society or Global Consumer Society? -- 5. 'developing' Political Economies and Global Consumer Society -- 6. Neo-Imperialism, Consumption and the Crisis of Time -- 7. Conclusion.

"This volumes examines commodity consumption both as an ongoing problem for capital and a complex mediator of the post-Cold War political economy. Comor assesses consumption as a core but contradictory nodal point in contemporary world (dis)order developments arguing that capitalist consumption--as a political, economic and sociological institution--facilitates efforts to rule through consent. However, as a result of its constitutive influence, consumption also mediates how vested interests (e.g., the American state and its opponents) conceptualize desirable, feasible, and imaginable strategies."--Publisher description.

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