Consumerist encounters : flirting with things and images (Record no. 69529)
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| fixed length control field | 04887 a2200169 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780190125561 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 745.4442 |
| Item number | BHA |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Bhattachharya, Sreedeep |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Consumerist encounters : flirting with things and images |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | New Delhi |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Oxford Uni. Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2020 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xviii,273,ip. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Contents<br/>List of Figures xi <br/>Preface xii<br/>Acknowledgements xv<br/>Introducing the Intersections: Commodities and<br/>Their Images in the Consumerist Landscape 1<br/>Why I Love De Beers and Care Less about the Kula Ring<br/>Predominance of the 'Pet Themes': Spotting the Elephant in the Room<br/>An Emerging Consumerist Class: Releasing Indian Sociology from a Rural House Arrest<br/>Three Hundred Centuries and Three Decades:<br/>The Delayed Birth of a Consumer Society in India <br/>Consumers as Active Participants: Ways of Reading Multiple <br/>Surfaces<br/>Chapter Scheme: Ten Anti-commandments<br/>1. 'If Your Jeans Are Original, How Come Everyone Else Has One?': Representation of Exclusionary Attitudes<br/>in Advertisements 27<br/>Exclusionary Attitudes: Middle Class in the Colonial Period <br/>Restrained Consumption: Before the New Consumerist Spree<br/>From Thrift to Unapologetic Indulgence: Use Value to Image Value <br/>Dressing the Self: Covering the Body, Revealing the Information <br/>The 'Elite' and the 'Upper Crest': Some Classist Claims<br/>2. Discovering Lineage amidst Urban Anonymity:<br/>Role-Playing through Images of Things 63<br/>'Who's Who' and 'Who's He': Apparel in the Urbanscape <br/>'Discover Your Lineage': Role-Playing through Material Possession <br/>Something for Everyone: Catering to the Difference<br/>3.Peer-Reviewed Images: Image-Consuming Selves<br/>as Visual Commodities 79<br/>Consuming Body Images and Transforming Body Images for Consumption<br/>The Idea of'Extra as Excess': Making and Manipulating the Ideal Body Image<br/>I Am Seen, Therefore I Am: Sharing and Circulating the Body Image<br/>( Ob )scene Onscreen: Acceptability and Legitimacy of the Eroticized Body Image<br/>Image Meets Body, Body Meets Image: The Process of Becoming the Body/Image<br/>4. Till It Lasts the Wash: Attached Messages, Detached Consumers, and the Trajectory of the T-shirt<br/>T-shirt as Casual, Flexible, and Androgynous: The Death of Symbolic Depth<br/>Visual and Textual Imprints: New-Generation T-shirts <br/>Hybridization and Repetitiveness: A Dual Kitsch<br/>5. Material Callings in an Outsourced Outpost : Accounts of an Aspiring Consumer 127<br/>joining Frequently and Absconding Soon After: Fetish on the Fast Lane<br/>Living with Bare Minimum : Locating the Self before Aspiring to be a Consumer<br/>The Interview: Say Something More about Yourself <br/>The First Day: What if They Find Out?<br/>Getting Trained : 'Bite the Bs, Kiss the Ws, Roll the Rs, Soften the Ts, Fade the Ps'<br/>360-Degree Feedback: Controlling the Call and Serving the Customer<br/>The Absconding Cases and Attrition: Probation Rarely Leading to Permanence<br/>(Not) Serving the Customer: Responding to Material Callings After-Call Wrap-Up: Globally Connected and Locally Disconnected<br/>6. Visual Access and Excess : New Ways of Seeing and Sharing 149<br/>The DigitalRemediation<br/>The Post-photographic condition<br/>Datafication and Dataveillance : self-Generated<br/>Data and its Concerns<br/>7. After the Tourists Depart: The Visual Postmortem of a New Tourist Destination 186<br/>Consuming the Image and Travelling the Distance: Gazing at the Destination <br/>A Consumerist Trajectory of Ladakh: A Tragedy in the Making <br/>Pangong Postmortem: Some Remains after the Tourists Depart<br/>8. The Afterlife of Things: Inorganic Transplants in the Liminal Debris of Consumer Culture 208<br/>The Logic of Discarding as an Impetus for Consumption <br/>Usefulness of the Discarded in Debris of Consumer Culture<br/>Technological Shifts in an Automobile junkyard Trashing the Waste: The Death of an Ambiguity<br/>9. The Visuality of Materials and the Materiality of Visuals: Loss of Material Sovereignty<br/>in an Abandoned Industrial Site 226<br/>Remnants and Remembrance in the Making: <br/>A Prelude to the Exploration<br/>The Trajectory of jute Mills: The Industrial Expansion and the Post-industrial Demise<br/>The Past Intruding on the Present: Subverting How We View Materiality and History<br/>Navigating the Anarchy of Debris: Observing the 'Loss of Material Sovereignty'<br/>A Postscript of a Deviant and Liminal Space<br/>Obsessive Compulsive (Dis)Order:<br/>The Promiscuity of Choice and the Ephemeral 254<br/>The ' New': Taking Waiting out of Wanting <br/>The ' Now': Own the Moment and Move On<br/>All Consuming Effect: Consumerist Tendencies in Personal <br/>and Professional Spheres<br/>Index<br/>About the Author<br/> <br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>226<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>254<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>264<br/>274<br/><br/>149<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>186<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>208<br/><br/> |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Relief (Sculpture) |
| -- | Materialism--Social aspects |
| -- | Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects |
| 9 (RLIN) | 99083 |
| 890 ## - Country | |
| Country | India |
| 891 ## - Topic | |
| Topic | General |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | General | CEPT Library | CEPT Library | 22/04/2022 | amazon.in | 1491.00 | 1 | 745.4442 BHA | 023493 | 28/05/2022 | 22/05/2022 | 1491.00 | 22/04/2022 | Book |