Search for dissertations about: "Culture Consumption"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 106 swedish dissertations containing the words Culture Consumption.

  2. 1. Image Culture : Media, Consumption and Everyday Life in Reflexive Modernity

    Author : André Jansson; Karlstads universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Media and Communication Studies; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap;

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  4. 2. The Constitution of Consumption : Food Labeling and the Politics of Consumerism

    Author : Carl Yngfalk; Torkild Thanem; Jacob Östberg; Avi Shankar; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; power; Foucault; consumerism; consumption; consumer culture; institutions; markets; dialectical; food labeling; best before; företagsekonomi; Business Administration;

    Abstract : The power dynamics of consumerism is an important aspect of contemporary consumer culture. Within the field of marketing and consumption, consumer culture theory (CCT) tends to understand power in terms of agency, the ability of consumers to emancipate from a market infused by the culture of consumerism. READ MORE

  5. 3. Geographies of the Japanese Cultural Economy : Innovation and Creative Consumption

    Author : Jakob Nobuoka; Dominic Power; Anders Malmberg; Mark Lorenzen; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Japan; Cultural Economy; Innovation; Consumption; Manga; Human geography; economic geography; Kulturgeografi; ekonomisk geografi; Social and Economic Geography; Kulturgeografi;

    Abstract : What is the role of the consumer in the contemporary cultural economy? Where are culturaleconomy innovations and competitiveness created? This thesis aims to provide tentativeanswers to these questions by focusing on some illustrative examples from the Japanesecultural economy. However, rather than primarily describing firm strategies or industrialdynamics, emphasis is put on the places and practices of users. READ MORE

  6. 4. The market hall revisited : Cultures of consumption in urban food retail during the long twentieth century

    Author : Jenny Lee; Roger Qvarsell; Klas Nyberg; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : Market hall; quality; consumption; cultures of consumption; urban culture; food retail; Saluhallar; kvalitet; konsumtion; konsumtionskulturer; städer; livsmedelshandel; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP;

    Abstract : In today’s consumption landscape the market hall is a place of luxury and authenticity. However, the idea of the market hall has changed several times during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. READ MORE

  7. 5. Culture Unbound: Americanization and Everyday Life in Sweden

    Author : Thomas O'Dell; Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; ethnology; Cultural anthropology; Sweden; Americanization; Culture; Modernity; Everyday Life; Transnational Cultural Processes; Globalization; Flow; Center Periphery; American Cars; Raggare; Counter-culture; Hippies; Kulturantropologi; etnologi;

    Abstract : This book investigates the significance processes of Americanization have had in shaping and influencing the form and content of everyday life in Sweden. However, rather than simply viewing Americanization as an irresistible homogenizing force, it is argued that to the extent that Swedish everyday life has been Americanized, it has been Americanized in a very Swedish way. READ MORE