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Author

Siniawer, Eiko Maruko, author.

Title Waste : consuming postwar Japan / Eiko Maruko Siniawer.

Publication Info.

Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2018.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe ProQuest E-Book	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	1 online resource (411 pages)
	text txt rdacontent
	computer c rdamedia
	online resource cr rdacarrier
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction : meaning and value in the everyday -- Imperatives of waste -- Better living through consumption -- Wars against waste -- A bright stinginess -- Consuming desires -- Living the good life? -- Battling the time thieves -- Greening consciousness -- We are all waste conscious now -- Sorting things out -- Afterword : waste and well-being.
Note	Description based on print version record.
Subject	Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects -- Japan -- History.
	Waste minimization -- Japan -- History.
	Refuse and refuse disposal -- Social aspects -- Japan -- History.
	Japan -- Economic conditions -- 1945-
	Japan -- Social conditions -- 1945-
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Siniawer, Eiko Maruko. Waste : consuming postwar Japan. Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2018 411 pages 9781501725869 (DLC) 2018000993
ISBN	9781501725869
	9781501725852 (electronic bk.)