Consumption and the Globalization Project : International Hegemony and the Annihilation of Time /

This book examines commodity consumption both as an ongoing problem for capital and a complex mediator of the post-Cold War political economy. Comor assesses consumption as a core but contradictory nodal point in contemporary world (dis)order developments arguing that capitalist consumption facilita...

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Main Author: Comor, Edward A. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Series:International political economy series.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:This book examines commodity consumption both as an ongoing problem for capital and a complex mediator of the post-Cold War political economy. Comor assesses consumption as a core but contradictory nodal point in contemporary world (dis)order developments arguing that capitalist consumption facilitates efforts to rule through consent.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (XIII, 211 pages)
ISBN:9780230582996
DOI:10.1057/9780230582996