Waste

Introduction: Meaning and Value in the Everyday

Part One: Re-Civilization and Re-Enlightenment: Transitions of the Early Postwar Period, 1945-1971

1. The Imperatives of Waste

2. Better Living through Consumption

Part Two: Shocks, Shifts, and Safeguards: Defending the Middle-Class Lifestyles, 1971-1981

3. Wars against Waste

4. A Bright Stinginess

Part Three: Abundant Dualities: Wealth and its Discontents in the 1980s and Beyond

5. Consuming Desires

6. Living the Good Life?

7. Battling the Time Thieves

Part Four: Affluence of the Heart: Identities and Values in the Slow-Growth Era, 1991-Present

8. Greening Consciousness

9. We Are All Waste Conscious Now

10. Sorting Things Out

Afterword: Waste and Well-Being

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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• Economia comportamental
• Estudos étnicos
• Antropologia social e cultural
• História social e cultural
• História da Ásia

Asian studies; critical discard studies; Japanese history; waste minimization; consumer behavior; mottainai; waste management; refuse disposal