1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910254935503321

Autore

Iqani Mehita

Titolo

Consumption, Media and the Global South : Aspiration Contested / / by Mehita Iqani

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

9781137390134

1137390131

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 p.)

Disciplina

338.4/7091724

Soggetti

Ethnology

Culture

Communication

Political sociology

Industries

Regional Cultural Studies

Media and Communication

Political Sociology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; List of Acronyms; 1 Introduction: The Mediation of Global South Consumption; The global south: Experimental term, analytical opportunity; Transnational comparative case studies: Challenges and prospects; Chapter outline; The materiality of mediated consumption; 2 Globalization, Consumption and Power: Why Media Matter; Media and global culture; Theorizing mediated globalization; Media discourse and power; Consumer culture and globalization; The legacy of colonialism; The political economy of globalized consumption

Moralizing southern consumptionThe developmentalist ethic: Can consumption save the south?; Inequality and avarice: Consumption as globalized exploitation; Studying the mediation of southern consumption: A conceptual matrix; Consumption as power: Manipulation and empowerment reloaded; Consumption as aspiration:



Poverty and wealth depolarized; Consumption as communication: Semiotic doubling in distinction and mediation; Summing up: Consumption, inequality and aspiration; 3 Slum Tourism and the Consumption of Poverty in TripAdvisor Reviews: The Cases of Langa, Dharavi and Santa Marta

Slum tourism: Globalized gazing and the mediation of povertyGlobal mobility and the exploitative gaze: Who looks and who is looked at?; Ethical witnessing? Politics, development and social realism in slum tours; The mediation of slum tourism: Glamorous or realist aesthetics?; Case studies: Dharavi, Santa Marta and Langa tours on TripAdvisor.com; Slum tours reviewed: Discourses on value, morality and learning; "Highlight": Value for money and the commoditized experience; "Humbling": Material poverty, spiritual wealth and questions of perspective

"Eye-opening": Dealing with reality and the geopolitics of the class encounterSlum tours: Commoditized, moralized and mediated (a conclusion); 4 New Yuppies? Documentary Film Representations of Middle-Class Consumer Lifestyles in China and South Africa; Global south "yuppies"? Middle-class culture and capital; The middle class: Contested, constructed, relational; Salaried and spending: Economic capital, income and agency; Taste and mobility: Cultural capital, globalization and identity; "Yuppies" on film: Documenting social mobility in China and South Africa

The dream, success and morality: The representation of Chinese and black South African yuppie subjectivitiesProsperity and time: Narratives of the dream; On the symbolism of the luxury car: Spending and success; Living it up, playing it down: Deserving and democratizing wealth; Mediating the yuppie: Neoliberal culture and southern upward mobility; 5 Allegations of Consumption: Wealth and Luxury in News Reports of Corruption in South Africa and India; Corruption, society and the media: Interdisciplinary debates; Abusing power: Defining corruption and its consequences

Stereotypes of instability? Framing global south corruption

Sommario/riassunto

What does consumption in the global south signify, and how are its complexities communicated in media discourses? This book looks at the media representation of consumer culture in Africa, China, Brazil and India through case studies ranging from celebrity selfies, to travel websites, news reports and documentary film.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910896111403321

Titolo

Mitteilungen für sächsische Ornithologen / NABU-Landesfachausschuss Ornithologie und Vogelschutz. Hrsg.: NABU Sachsen e.V

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leipzig, : NABU Sachsen, [2004?]-

Descrizione fisica

Online-Ressource

Disciplina

000

590

Soggetti

Zeitschrift

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Es erscheint nur 1 Heft je Jahrgang ; 2000, 2007 u. 2010 - 2013 nicht erschienen

Gesehen am 01.10.2021



3.

Record Nr.

UNISA996672782003316

Titolo

3/2006: Com'è lontano il Novecento / a cura di Federico Spantigati

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano, : Franco Angeli, 2006

Descrizione fisica

238 p. ; 23 cm

Disciplina

340.09

Soggetti

Diritto - Storia

Collocazione

XVI.7.D. 638

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia