LEADER 05662nam 22008535 450 001 9910254935503321 005 20240718182142.0 010 $a9781137390134 010 $a1137390131 024 7 $a10.1057/9781137390134 035 $a(CKB)3710000000500348 035 $a(EBL)4082215 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001568936 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16220953 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001568936 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14325174 035 $a(PQKB)10089116 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001616667 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16347753 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001616667 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14922019 035 $a(PQKB)10575790 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-137-39013-4 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4082215 035 $a(PPN)191696943 035 $a(Perlego)3487810 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000500348 100 $a20160126d2016 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aConsumption, Media and the Global South $eAspiration Contested /$fby Mehita Iqani 205 $a1st ed. 2016. 210 1$aLondon :$cPalgrave Macmillan UK :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (250 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9781349557011 311 08$a1349557013 311 08$a9781137390127 311 08$a1137390123 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $aMoralizing 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 327 $aSlum 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 327 $a"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 327 $aThe 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 327 $aStereotypes of instability? Framing global south corruption 330 $aWhat 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. 606 $aEthnology 606 $aCulture 606 $aCommunication 606 $aPolitical sociology 606 $aIndustries 606 $aRegional Cultural Studies 606 $aMedia and Communication 606 $aPolitical Sociology 606 $aIndustries 615 0$aEthnology. 615 0$aCulture. 615 0$aCommunication. 615 0$aPolitical sociology. 615 0$aIndustries. 615 14$aRegional Cultural Studies. 615 24$aMedia and Communication. 615 24$aPolitical Sociology. 615 24$aIndustries. 676 $a338.4/7091724 700 $aIqani$b Mehita$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01064528 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910254935503321 996 $aConsumption, Media and the Global South$92538798 997 $aUNINA