Consumption and Sustainability in Asia – serie
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Beijing Garbage
A City Besieged by Waste
Häftad, 2025
704 kr
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Why do central and local government initiatives aiming to curb the proliferation of garbage in Beijing and its disposal continue to be unsuccessful? Is the Uberization of waste picking through online-to-offline (O2O) garbage retrieval companies able to decrease waste and improve the lives of waste …
Consuming Life in Post-Bubble Japan
A Transdisciplinary Perspective
Av Katarzyna J. Cwiertka, Ewa Machotka
Häftad, 2025
729 kr
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This multidisciplinary book analyses the contradictory coexistence of consumerism and environmentalism in contemporary Japan. It focuses on the dilemma that the diffusion of the concepts of sustainability and recycling has posed for everyday consumption practices, and on how these concepts have …
Food Education and Rural Resilience in Japan
Nourishing National Identity
Häftad, 2026
708 kr
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Food education initiatives exist worldwide, but Japan remains unique with its food education law known as shokuiku. The country’s impressive health metrics — high life expectancies, low obesity, and affordable health care — often lead observers to praise this approach. This book presents a more …
Skateboarding and Urban Landscapes in Asia
Endless Spots
Häftad, 2025
708 kr
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As urban development in Asia has accelerated, cities in the region have become central to skateboarding culture, livelihoods, and consumption. Asia's urban landscapes are desired for their endless supply of 'spots'. Spots are not built for skateboarding; they are accidents of urban planning and …
Consuming Life in Post-Bubble Japan
A Transdisciplinary Perspective
Av Katarzyna J. Cwiertka, Ewa Machotka
Inbunden, 2018
2504 kr
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This multidisciplinary book analyses the contradictory coexistence of consumerism and environmentalism in contemporary Japan. It focuses on the dilemma that the diffusion of the concepts of sustainability and recycling has posed for everyday consumption practices, and on how these concepts have …
Food Education and Rural Resilience in Japan
Nourishing National Identity
Inbunden, 2025
1876 kr
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Food education initiatives exist worldwide, but Japan remains unique with its food education law known as shokuiku . Using Foucault's concept of governmentality, historical contextualization, and extensive fieldwork in rural Japan, this study reveals the complex political agenda driving food …
Beijing Garbage
A City Besieged by Waste
Inbunden, 2019
2126 kr
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Most citizens of Beijing are well aware of the fact that their city is besieged by waste. Yet instead of taking individual action, they sit and wait for the governments at various levels to tell them what to do.
Skateboarding and Urban Landscapes in Asia
Endless Spots
Inbunden, 2021
2126 kr
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Skateboarders and filmers chase these spots to make skate video, skateboarding's primary cultural artefact. This book explores this way of desiring and consuming urban Asia, and the implications for relational and comparative hierarchies of urban development.
