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Consumption, Media and the Global South : Aspiration Contested / / by Mehita Iqani
| Consumption, Media and the Global South : Aspiration Contested / / by Mehita Iqani |
| Autore | Iqani Mehita |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2016.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (250 p.) |
| Disciplina | 338.4/7091724 |
| Soggetto topico |
Ethnology
Culture Communication Political sociology Industries Regional Cultural Studies Media and Communication Political Sociology |
| ISBN |
9781137390134
1137390131 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910254935503321 |
Iqani Mehita
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| London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Flow
| Flow |
| Autore | Iqani Mehita |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Somerset West, South Africa, : African Minds, 2024 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (106 p.) |
| Altri autori (Persone) | MbaoWamuwi |
| Soggetto topico | SOCIAL SCIENCE / General |
| ISBN | 9781928502746 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910842871603321 |
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Iqani Mehita
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| Somerset West, South Africa, : African Minds, 2024 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Flow : FicSci 01
| Flow : FicSci 01 |
| Autore | Iqani Mehita |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford : , : African Minds, , 2023 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (106 pages) |
| Altri autori (Persone) | MbaoWamuwi |
| ISBN | 1-928502-74-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Notes from an Invited Scientist -- 2. Sizakele to the Blood Ocean -- 3. Igazi Liyathetha -- 4. Abazindla: The Prologue -- 5. Umcimbi Wegazi -- 6. The Form of the Fibre is Shaped by the Follicle -- 7. Fix the Hair, Fix the Child -- 8. BLOOD/BRAIN/BARRIER: A Mindplay -- 9. Coagulation: A Tribute -- 10. It Comes from Nowhere -- 11. Poems -- 12. Fractals -- 13. Always in Motion -- 14. Artefacts -- 15. Unrooted -- 16. Notes on Boundary and Flow -- 17. RatHeart-LoveSong -- 18. lab rat -- 19. An Interplay with Flow -- Biographies -- Back cover. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910842701303321 |
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Iqani Mehita
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| Oxford : , : African Minds, , 2023 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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