Consumption and the globalization project : international hegemony and the annihilation of time
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Consumption and the globalization project : international hegemony and the annihilation of time
（International political economy series）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
- : hardback
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Note
Bibliography: p. 191-198
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book examines commodity consumption both as an ongoing problem for capital and a complex mediator of the post-Cold War political economy. Comor assesses consumption as a core but contradictory nodal point in contemporary world (dis)order developments arguing that capitalist consumption facilitates efforts to rule through consent.
Table of Contents
Introduction Power, Hegemony and the Institution of Consumption The Birth of Capitalist Consumption Global Civil Society or Global Consumer Society? 'Developing' Political Economies and Global Consumer Society Neo-Imperialism, Consumption and the Crisis of Time Conclusion
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