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The politics of consumerism : understanding the role of consumption in the political economy
Bibliography: leaves 103-108.
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| author | Narshi, Jyoti |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/14630 The politics of consumerism : understanding the role of consumption in the political economy Narshi, Jyoti Noyes, John K Literary Studies Bibliography: leaves 103-108. Were the social activity that most defines late capitalism to be named consumption would be nominated as the predominant leisure pastime of the current period. Since the well-being of a society is measured along material co-ordinates, high rates of consumption are taken as signs of an overall prosperity wherein individuals are not only economically empowered but also endowed with the putative right to express their multifarious subjectivities. Yet the reality of consumption despite consolidated efforts to assert the contrary effects a far more degraded picture than the phantasmagorical one that is widely propagated. Often treated as a neutral sphere isolated from a productionist context, consumption is a spectacle which is reflective of but hides a subterranean structure of capital accumulation. This dissertation will consequently address the manner in which capitalism has shaped the arena of consumption exemplified through the changes undergone by the commodity and argue that consumption is best understood within a framework of the political economy. 2015-11-04T10:29:51Z 2015-11-04T10:29:51Z 1998 Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14630 eng application/pdf Department of English Language and Literature Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
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| title | The politics of consumerism : understanding the role of consumption in the political economy |
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