Consumer Culture, Modernity and Identity
- Los Angeles: London: New Delhi: Singapore: Washington DC Sage, 2014.
- xl, 399p.
978-81-321-1127-6
PART I: Lifestyle Choices and Construction of Modern Identities 1. The Rich and the Super-rich: Mobility, Consumption and Luxury Lifestyles 2. Shop Talk: Shopping Malls and Their Publics 3. Consumer Agency of Urban Women in India 4. Modernity, Consumer Culture and Construction of Urban Youth Identity In India: A Disembedding Perspective 5. Imagining Identity in the age of Internet and Communication Technologies Part II: Global Markets, Local Needs: Fashion and Advertising 6. Structural Changes Rather than the Influence of Media: People's encounter with Economic Liberalization in India 7. Fashion, Advertising and Identity in the Consumer Society 8. Cultural Politics of Branding: Promoting 'KamaSutra' in India 9. Shopping for Fashions in Post-socialist Russia 10. Sales Tours or How Czech Seniors Learned to Love Capitalism