LEADER 03814nam 2200601 450 001 9910815382403321 005 20230126220124.0 010 $a1-5017-2585-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9781501725852 035 $a(CKB)4100000006611630 035 $a(OCoLC)1019841333 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse67667 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5516832 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0002048724 035 $a(DE-B1597)503432 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501725852 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5516832 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11610690 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000006611630 100 $a20181009d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aWaste $econsuming postwar Japan /$fEiko Maruko Siniawer 210 1$aIthaca ;$aLondon :$cCornell University Press,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (1 online resource.) 225 1 $aCornell scholarship online 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2018. 311 $a1-5017-2586-6 311 $a1-5017-2584-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : 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. 330 $aIn Waste, Eiko Maruko Siniawer innovatively explores the many ways in which the Japanese have thought about waste-in terms of time, stuff, money, possessions, and resources-from the immediate aftermath of World War II to the present. She shows how questions about waste were deeply embedded in the decisions of everyday life, reflecting the priorities and aspirations of the historical moment, and revealing people's ever-changing concerns and hopes.Over the course of the long postwar, Japanese society understood waste variously as backward and retrogressive, an impediment to progress, a pervasive outgrowth of mass consumption, incontrovertible proof of societal excess, the embodiment of resources squandered, and a hazard to the environment. Siniawer also shows how an encouragement of waste consciousness served as a civilizing and modernizing imperative, a moral good, an instrument for advancement, a path to self-satisfaction, an environmental commitment, an expression of identity, and more. From the late 1950s onward, a defining element of Japan's postwar experience emerged: the tension between the desire for the privileges of middle-class lifestyles made possible by affluence and dissatisfaction with the logics, costs, and consequences of that very prosperity. This tension complicated the persistent search for what might be called well-being, a good life, or a life well lived. Waste is an elegant history of how people lived-how they made sense of, gave meaning to, and found value in the acts of the everyday. 410 0$aCornell scholarship online. 606 $aConsumption (Economics)$xSocial aspects$zJapan$xHistory 606 $aWaste minimization$zJapan$xHistory 606 $aRefuse and refuse disposal$xSocial aspects$zJapan$xHistory 607 $aJapan$xEconomic conditions$y1945- 607 $aJapan$xSocial conditions$y1945- 615 0$aConsumption (Economics)$xSocial aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aWaste minimization$xHistory. 615 0$aRefuse and refuse disposal$xSocial aspects$xHistory. 676 $a363.72/80952 700 $aSiniawer$b Eiko Maruko$0791869 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815382403321 996 $aWaste$91770525 997 $aUNINA