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Cannibal culture: Art, appropriation, and the commodification of difference. Boulder: Westview Press, 1996.

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Media and culture in Singapore: A theory of controlled commodification. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2001.

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Babbling corpse: Vaporwave and the commodification of ghosts. Winchester, UK: Zero Books, 2016.

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Lifebuoy men, lux women: Commodification, consumption, and cleanliness in modern Zimbabwe. Durham: Duke University Press, 1996.

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Consuming Korean tradition in early and late modernity: Commodification, tourism, and performance. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2011.

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Commodifying (post) colonialism: Othering, reification, commodification and the new literatures and cultures in English. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2010.

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Ratuva, Steven, and Aroha Te Pareake Mead. Pacific genes & life patents: Pacific indigenous experiences & analysis of the commodification & ownership of life. Edited by Call of the Earth Llamado de la Tierra (Organization) and Institute of Advanced Studies. Wellington, N.Z: Call of the Earth Llamado de la Tierra and the United Nations University of Advanced Studies, 2007.

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Posing in-between: Postcolonial Englishness and the commodification of hybridity. Franfurt am Main: P. Lang, 2003.

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Ferreri, Mara. The Permanence of Temporary Urbanism. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462984912.

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Temporary urbanism has become a distinctive feature of urban life after the 2008 global financial crisis. This book offers a critical exploration of its emergence and establishment as a seductive discourse and as an entangled field of practice encompassing architecture, visual and performative arts, urban regeneration policies and planning. Drawing on seven years of semi-ethnographic research, it explores the politics of temporariness from a situated analysis of neighbourhood transformation, media representations and wider political and cultural shifts in austerity London. Through a longitudinal engagement with projects and practitioners, the book tests the power of aesthetic and cultural interventions and highlights tensions between the promise of vacant space re-appropriation and its commodification. Against the normalisation of ephemerality, it presents a critique of the permanence of temporary urbanism as a glamorisation of the anticipatory politics of precarity which are transforming cities, subjectivities and imaginaries of urban action.
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Sport, professionalism, and pain: Ethnographies of injury and risk. London: Routledge, 2004.

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1945-, Ryan Chris, and Aicken Michelle, eds. Indigenous tourism: The commodification and management of culture. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2005.

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Mark, Gottdiener, ed. New forms of consumption: Consumers, culture, and commodification. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2000.

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Carrette, Jeremy. Objectification and Commodification. Edited by Michael Stausberg and Steven Engler. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198729570.013.49.

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Objectification and commodification are challenging and disturbing processes. The chapter explores how these processes are transforming ‘religious’ ideas, persons, and practices into ‘things’ across a wide variety of Asian and Western traditions and contexts. Objectification and commodification reflect distinct cognitive and social processes that arise from desire, control, and power. The chapter argues that commoditization and commodification should be seen as two different processes, the former dealing with the legitimate process of objects becoming economic entities and the latter referring to the process of making non-objects, such as persons, into objects. Objects and commodities can be part of the material culture of religion, but there is a complex ethical concern when these processes extend to profit motivations or are applied to non-objects. Objectification and commodification are embedded deep within the psychological, social and political worlds.
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1963-, Ertman Martha M., and Williams Joan C, eds. Rethinking commodification: Cases and readings in law and culture. New York: New York University Press, 2005.

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Tourism, Land and Landscape in Ireland: The Commodification of Culture. Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

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Chan, Christine Emi. Beyond Colonization, Commodification, and Reclamation. Edited by Anthony Shay and Barbara Sellers-Young. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199754281.013.36.

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The Hawaiian Islands have long been characterized as a place of romance, mystery, and exotic cultural experiences. Since the 18th century arrival of Europeans, this view of Hawaii has been perpetuated by explorers, missionaries, the government, the tourist industry, and many others who choose to play into the fantasies of Hawaiian culture conjured and maintained by Orientalization. Hula and the figure of the Hawaiian hula girl are particularly oversexualized and overspiritualized. Today, we see debate over whether non-Native speakers, nonindigenous people, or non-Hawaii residents should be allowed to participate in the dance. Interestingly, in attempting to celebrate hula, certain rhetoric reinforces Orientalist tendencies to romanticize hula and Hawaii. Therefore, I offer a retheorization of hula by drawing out aspects of hula presentations that (1) recognize hula as a recycled tradition, (2) acknowledge the unique plight of the indigenous people of Hawaii, and (3) do not limit participation to certain bodies.
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Williams, Joan C. Rethinking Commodification: Cases and Readings in Law and Culture (Critical America). New York University Press, 2005.

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Root, Deborah. Cannibal Culture: Art, Appropriation, and the Commodification of Difference (Icon Editions). Westview Press, 1995.

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Williams, Joan C. Rethinking Commodification: Cases and Readings in Law and Culture (Critical America). New York University Press, 2005.

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Brand Islam: The Marketing and Commodification of Piety. University of Texas Press, 2016.

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Brand Islam: The Marketing and Commodification of Piety. University of Texas Press, 2016.

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Indigenous Tourism: The commodification and Management of Culture (Advances in Tourism Research) (Advances in Tourism Research). Elsevier Science, 2005.

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(Editor), Chris Ryan, and Michelle Aicken (Editor), eds. Indigenous Tourism: The commodification and Management of Culture (Advances in Tourism Research) (Advances in Tourism Research). Elsevier Science, 2005.

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Jamil, Ghazala. Materiality of Culture and Identity. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199470655.003.0002.

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This chapter opens with a brief survey of literature on spatialization of discrimination. It presents an account of Old Delhi and Seelampur. It investigates ideological purposes of production of space and asserts that urban space has been commodified by capitalism even in its quality as a place of play and leisure. Parts of the Muslim localities in the walled city are produced as museumized space for the adventurous neo-liberal consumer of artistic, cultural, historical, and architectural heritage. Simultaneously, Muslim localities (such as Seelampur) are produced as derelict, dense and illicit areas by discursive practice—journalists, social science/planning researchers, social work/development practitioners. It is asserted that the two processes of segregation through ‘representation of space’ are affected due to materiality of culture and identity. Cultural commodification and labour market segmentation, as two modes of accumulation, are aided by segregation.
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Kendall, Laurel. Consuming Korean Tradition in Early and Late Modernity: Commodification, Tourism, and Performance. University of Hawaii Press, 2010.

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Denzin, Norman K. Indians on Display: Global Commodification of Native America in Performance, Art, and Museums. Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.

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Indians on Display: Global Commodification of Native America in Performance, Art, and Museums. Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.

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Burke, Timothy. Unexpected Subversions: Modern Colonialism, Globalization, and Commodity Culture. Edited by Frank Trentmann. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199561216.013.0024.

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Scholars studying the history of modern colonialism have been more reluctant to make strongly contrarian claims about consumerism and commodification similar to those made by early modern Europeanists because they are more unsettled by some of the implications of their own studies. Modern consumer culture is strongly mapped to ‘Westernization’ and globalization. There is a very large class of scholarly studies that in some respect or another discuss the association between colonialism and consumption in nineteenth- and twentieth-century global culture. Even constrained to the Western European states that created or extended formal empires in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific after 1860, studies such as Anne McClintock's intricate reading of British commodity culture indicate the extent to which colonial meanings and images were circulating within metropolitan societies. This article discusses modern colonialism, globalization, and commodity culture. It first examines the middle classes, nations, and modernity, and then considers consumer agency in the context of globalization.
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Coderre, Laurence. Newborn Socialist Things. Duke University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9781478021612.

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Contemporary China is seen as a place of widespread commodification and consumerism, while the preceeding Maoist Cultural Revolution is typically understood as a time when goods were scarce and the state criticized what little consumption was possible. Indeed, with the exception of the likeness and words of Mao Zedong, both the media and material culture of the Cultural Revolution are often characterized as a void out of which the postsocialist world of commodity consumption miraculously sprang fully formed. In Newborn Socialist Things, Laurence Coderre explores the material culture of the Cultural Revolution to show how it paved the way for commodification in contemporary China. Examining objects ranging from retail counters and porcelain statuettes to textbooks and vanity mirrors, she shows how the project of building socialism in China has always been intimately bound up with consumption. By focusing on these objects—or “newborn socialist things”—along with the Cultural Revolution’s media environment, discourses of materiality, and political economy, Coderre reconfigures understandings of the origins of present-day China.
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1955-, Horne John, ed. Leisure cultures, consumption and commodification. Eastbourne: Leisure Studies Association, 2001.

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Long, Lucy M. Culinary Tourism. Edited by Jeffrey M. Pilcher. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199729937.013.0022.

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A product of both world history and contemporary mass culture, culinary tourism is a scholarly field of study that is emerging as an important part of the tourism industry. Also known as gastronomic tourism, tasting tourism, and simply food tourism, culinary tourism refers to adventurous eating, eating out of curiosity, exploring other cultures through food, intentionally participating in the foodways of an Other, and the development of food as a tourist destination and attraction. In culinary tourism, the primary motivation for travel is to experience a specific food. Culinary tourism parallels the globalization of food production and consumption and reflects issues inherent in tourism. It has the potential to address some of the controversial issues in tourism in general, such as questions of authenticity, commodification of tradition, identity construction, intellectual property and intangible heritage, as well as the ecological, economic, and cultural sustainability of food cultures in response to tourism.
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Oh, Youjeong. Pop City. Cornell University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501755538.001.0001.

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This book examines the use of Korean television dramas and K-pop music to promote urban and rural places in South Korea. Building on the phenomenon of Korean pop culture, the book argues that pop culture-featured place selling mediates two separate domains: political decentralization and the globalization of Korean popular culture. By analyzing the process of culture-featured place marketing, the book shows that urban spaces are produced and sold just like TV dramas and pop idols by promoting spectacular images rather than substantial physical and cultural qualities. The book demonstrates how the speculative, image-based, and consumer-exploitive nature of popular culture shapes the commodification of urban space and ultimately argues that pop-culture-mediated place promotion entails the domination of urban space by capital in more sophisticated and fetishized ways.
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Tew, Philip. Comedy, Class, and Nation. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198749394.003.0012.

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This chapter studies the comic novel. If British and Irish culture in the post-war decades underwent some radical social and political upheavals, the novel registered and critiqued these transformations in part through the development of a particular comic mode. Comedy in British and Irish novels published from 1940 to 1973 often turned around the difficult intersection of class and nation. Alongside this overarching attention to class and nation, a number of other recurrent motifs can be traced in the comic novel of the period, such as the representation of cultural commodification, the decline of traditional values, and the emergence of new forms of youth culture. In the context of such widespread changes to the narratives that shaped public life, the comic novel expressed an ironic scepticism concerning the capacity of any cultural narrative to offer an adequate account of contemporary identities.
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Miller, Vincent J. Consuming Religion. Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781501383311.

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Contemporary theology, argues Miller, is silent on what is unquestionably one of the most important cultural issues it faces: consumerism or “consumer culture.” While there is no shortage of expressions of concern about the corrosive effects of consumerism from the standpoint of economic justice or environmental ethics, there is a surprising paucity of theoretically sophisticated works on the topic, for consumerism, argues Miller, is not just about behavioral “excesses”; rather, it is a pervasive worldview that affects our construction as persons-what motivates us, how we relate to others, to culture, and to religion. Consuming Religion surveys almost a century of scholarly literature on consumerism and the commodification of culture and charts the ways in which religious belief and practice have been transformed by the dominant consumer culture of the West. It demonstrates the significance of this seismic cultural shift for theological method, doctrine, belief, community, and theological anthropology. Like more popular texts, the book takes a critical stand against the deleterious effects of consumerism. However, its analytical complexity provides the basis for developing more sophisticated tactics for addressing these problems.
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Prestholdt, Jeremy. Icons of Dissent. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190632144.001.0001.

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The global icon is an omnipresent but poorly understood element of mass culture. This book asks why audiences around the world have embraced particular iconic figures, how perceptions of these figures have changed, and what this tells us about transnational relations since the Cold War era. Prestholdt addresses these questions by examining one type of icon: the anti-establishment figure. As symbols that represent sentiments, ideals, or something else recognizable to a wide audience, icons of dissent have been integrated into diverse political and consumer cultures, and global audiences have reinterpreted them over time. To illustrate these points the book examines four of the most evocative and controversial figures of the past fifty years: Che Guevara, Bob Marley, Tupac Shakur, and Osama bin Laden. Each has embodied a convergence of dissent, cultural politics, and consumerism, yet popular perceptions of each reveal the dissonance between shared, global references and locally contingent interpretations. By examining four very different figures, Icons of Dissent offers new insights into global symbolic idioms, the mutability of common references, and the commodification of political sentiment in the contemporary world.
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Ó Briain, Lonán. Cultural Tourism in Northwestern Vietnam. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190626969.003.0005.

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Chapter 4 examines the commodification of minority musics in Vietnam’s flourishing tourism industry. In recent years the idyllic mountainous district of Sa Pa has experienced a rapid proliferation of minority-themed cultural productions. Local authorities have maintained control over the most profitable dance and music shows at Cát Cát village and Hàm Rồng mountain; the former is used in this chapter as a case study to document how local traditions, which the organizers of these shows claim to be preserving, are being adapted to cater to tourists’ desires. A second case study of the Sa Pa “Love” Market illustrates how Hmong youths are also profiting from their musical culture. Although the state-directed folkloricization of these indigenous traditions might reflect a celebration of cultural cosmopolitanism in Sa Pa, its principal purpose, besides financial gain for a few local authorities, is achieving national unity through calculated promotion of social harmony.
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Mccann, Andrew. Marcus Clarke. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199609932.003.0023.

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This chapter looks at Marcus Clarke's For the Term of His Natural Life (1870–1872), which is considered as his enduring contribution to Australian literature and to a broader literature of empire. The peculiarly citational quality of the novel is barely intelligible without understanding the way in which Clarke came to situate himself in relationship to both colonial literary culture and to an emerging European canon. His acute sense of having to balance cultural legitimacy against commercial viability lends his work an unusual degree of self-consciousness in regard to the processes of commodification and the regimes of cultural capital that were having an enormous impact on the development of mid-nineteenth-century Melbourne, the city in which Clarke lived and worked. Ultimately, a novel like His Natural Life reflects the desire to reproduce the popular textual forms of the metropolis in the everyday experience of the colonies.
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Paryż, Marek, ed. Annie Proulx. University of Warsaw Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323547983.

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The philosophical underpinnings and existential implications of Annie Proulx’s fiction situate it in the tradition of literary naturalism. The writer portrays characters from the lower social classes, people who are unable to overcome the impasse in which they have found themselves. Far from idyllic sentiments, Proulx’s approach to the experience of place connects her to the writers associated with so-called new regionalism. She shows the degrading influence of the life amidst beautiful natural surroundings on individual human psyche. Proulx looks closely at the processes of the commodification of regional culture and interprets them as symptoms of a dangerous global tendency.
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Da Costa, Dia. When Victims Become Entrepreneurs. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040603.003.0002.

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This chapter historically locates the creative economy global discursive regime in the Indian context whilst challenging the presumed newness of creative economy policy. Tracing Indian policy debates over culture and development since the 1950s, it demystifies the seeming contradictions between disjuncture and continuity in policy by considering the sentiments deployed in India’s planning process. India’s political economic transition from development nationalism to neoliberal capitalism is accompanied by a shift from sentimental nationalism and its pity for artisanal victims of planned industrialization in the 1950s toward sentimental capitalism and its optimism about the poor’s artistic entrepreneurialism in the new millennium. Hindu culturalisms and neoliberal commodification combine to sell pride and optimism as means of reinventing Indian heritage—lending a global discourse traction.
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Samuels, Jeffrey. Contemporary Buddhism in Malaysia. Edited by Michael Jerryson. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199362387.013.1.

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This chapter examines Buddhism in Malaysia, from its early history through the contemporary period. It investigates the factors that contributed to the migration and continued presence of Chinese, Thai, Burmese, and Sri Lankan Buddhists to peninsular Malaysia, as well as the causes that led to the founding of their own familiar places of worship. Turning more specifically to the postcolonial period, this chapter explores the intersection of politics and religion. Focusing on the minority status of Malaysian Buddhists vis-à-vis their majority Malay-Muslim fellow citizens, the chapter considers not only how the commodification of religion and culture has functioned as a centripetal force drawing together disparate groups of Buddhists in Malaysia, but also how the felt need among Buddhists to work together and speak in a unified voice has shaped ideas about Buddhist orthodoxy and orthopraxy.
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Lemon, Robert. The Taco Truck. University of Illinois Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252042454.001.0001.

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When primarily immigrant, day-laboring clientele eat a meal at a traditional taco truck, the taco truck becomes a significant social space in which Mexican cultural identity is reaffirmed. But the traditional taco truck is also a politically charged symbolic space that can spark heated debates about Latino culture and the uses of street spaces in cities. This book uses the taco truck as a vehicle to tell a story about the Mexican American experience and identity and deconstructs the myriad meanings taco trucks represent to diverse community groups and how such meanings influence urban politics and the built environment. The traditional taco truck is a powerfully transformative feature of the American landscape because the trucks’ social spaces intersect with complex geographic processes of immigration, class, ethnicity, gentrification, commodification, food-ways, and the right to public space. Thus the book is also about power, privilege, and the political economy of cities and the novel ways marginalized Mexican immigrants take and remake urban space through their food practices. Through investigating taco trucks in various U.S. metropolises, this book elucidates the ways neoliberal cities work and how Mexican immigrants claim their right to the city.
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Lindner, Oliver, and Rainer Emig. Commodifying Colonialism: Othering, Reification, Commodification and the New Literatures and Cultures in English. Rodopi, 2012.

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Lippert, Amy DeFalco. Consuming Identities. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190268978.001.0001.

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Along with the rapid expansion of the market economy and industrial production methods, innovations including photography, lithography, and steam printing created a pictorial revolution in the nineteenth century. Consuming Identities: Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco explores the significance of that revolution in one of its vanguard cities: San Francisco, the revolving door of the gold rush and the hub of Pacific migration and trade. The proliferation of visual prints, ephemera, spectacles, and technologies transformed public values and perceptions, and its legacy was as significant as the print revolution that preceded it. In their correspondence, diaries, portraits, and reminiscences, thousands of migrants to the city by the Bay demonstrated that visual media constituted a central means by which to navigate the bewildering host of changes taking hold around them in the second half of the nineteenth century. Images themselves were inextricably associated with these world-changing forces; they were commodities, but they also possessed special cultural qualities that gave them new meaning and significance. Visual media transcended traditional boundaries of language and culture that had divided groups within the same urban space. From the 1848 conquest of California and the gold discovery to the disastrous earthquake and fire of 1906, San Francisco anticipated broader national transformations in the commodification, implementation, and popularity of images. For the city’s inhabitants and visitors, an array of imagery came to mediate, intersect with, and even constitute social interaction in a world where virtual reality was becoming normative.
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Wachinger, Tobias A. Posing In-Between: Postcolonial Englishness and the Commodification of Hybridity. Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter, 2003.

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Hadjipavlou, Maria. Gender, Conflict and Peace-keeping Operations. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.190.

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Gender shapes how both men and women understand their experiences and actions regarding armed conflicts. A gender perspective in the context of conflict situations means to pay close attention to the special needs of women and girls during peace-building processes, including disarmament, demobilization, repatriation, resettlement, rehabilitation, reintegration to the social fabric in post-conflict reconstruction, as well as to take measures to support local women’s peace initiatives. In this light, the overall culture, both within the UN and its member states, needs to be addressed. This culture is still patriarchal and supportive of state militaries, and peacekeeping operations that are comprised of them, which are based on a hegemonic masculinity that depends on the trivialization of women and the exploitation and commodification of women’s bodies. The values, qualities, and qualifications for peace-keeping personnel, on the ground and in senior positions, have been framed and adopted through a patriarchal understanding of peace-keeping, peace-building, and peace-making which has defined security narrowly, has relied on state militaries and military experts to be peace enforcers and makers, has been disinterested in the relationship between conflict and social inequalities, has imposed new social inequalities and new violences in the name of peacekeeping, and has systematically excluded or marginalized women in peace-keeping, peace-building, and peacemaking processes. Although the recent advances, reflected in Security Council, other UN, and member state resolutions and mandates, of integrating gender concerns into these processes have made a positive difference in some operations, implementation of these is still marginal.
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Spracklen, Karl. Developing a Cultural Theory of Music Making and Leisure. Edited by Roger Mantie and Gareth Dylan Smith. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190244705.013.2.

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People listen to music in their leisure time, in leisure spaces, as a supposedly free act of agency. Yet social and cultural theorists show that leisure choices and spaces are constrained by hegemonic power, and that cultural forms such as music are products of commodification. This chapter explores these key claims for the use of music and the consumption of music in leisure spaces. It uses the work of Baudrillard on simulacra to explore the potential meaning and purpose of music in the lives of makers, listeners and fans—as a key device in constructing alternative hyperrealities to the capitalized reality of late modernity.
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Davis, Kimberly Chabot. Cross-Racial Empathy: Viewing the White Self through Black Eyes. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038433.003.0001.

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This introductory chapter focuses on the progressive potential of empathetic feeling to redress a scholarly bias against compassion, empathy, and sympathy, particularly in American studies. Rather than viewing empathy as a “passive ideal” and an impediment to political change, the chapter argues that it is an active cognitive process that can play an important role in changing attitudes and self-perception or even catalyzing action. Tying in with this volume's overall response to critics who believe that the forces of commodification render cultural consumption a tainted vehicle for cross-racial understanding, the chapter argues against a too-hasty dismissal of white consumption of black cultural texts as a potential conduit for social change. In addition, the chapter also discusses multiplex subjectivity and the insider–outsider debate as part of the book's broader ethnographic study.
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Morris, Robyn. Multicultural and Transnational Novels. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199679775.003.0022.

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In Australia, the issue of multiculturalism has been the subject of considerable debate. This tension has been captured by and reflected in the reception of the strong but constantly evolving tradition of Australian multicultural writing. The controversy centres on who can speak for whom, claims of the appropriation and commodification of multicultural writing by publishers and academia, and the multicultural novel's relationship to — and place within — Australian literature. The chapter considers the rise of Australian multicultural and contemporary transnational literature since the 1950s and its connection to political and cultural ideologies. In particular, it examines how autobiographical reflections or fictional accounts of the experience of migration have influenced public discourse on issues of citizenship and belonging. A number of such works are cited, including Antigone Kefala's The Island (1984), Christos Tsiolkas's Loaded (1995), and Adib Khan's Spiral Road (2007).
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Prestholdt, Jeremy. Africa and The Global Lives of Things. Edited by Frank Trentmann. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199561216.013.0005.

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Inquiries into commodification, social distinction, and fashion have offered fresh perspectives on social relations and cultural formations in Africa. Imported consumer goods were both elemental to social relationships and a cornerstone of Africa's global interfaces. This article explores how the social dynamics of consumer demand in Africa were shaped by, and gave shape to, larger social, economic, and political relationships from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century. This approach underscores the interrelation of African cultural imperatives and histories of globalization. Focusing on East Africa in the late nineteenth century, the article begins with a snapshot of consumer trends before the nineteenth century. It then examines three dimensions of consumption in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century: marketing consumer objects, the social relations of consumption, and the ways manufacturers accommodated African consumer demand. Taken together, these themes augment our understanding of social change in Africa, contribute to wider reflections on consumption as a mode of trans-societal relation, and highlight how manufactured objects can be conceptually and physically transformed throughout their global life cycles.
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Davis, Adrienne D., and BSE Collective, eds. Black Sexual Economies. University of Illinois Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252042645.001.0001.

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This book is a compilation of contemporary and previously unpublished scholarship on Black sexualities. The sixteen essays work to untangle the complex mechanisms of dominance and subordination as they are attached to political and socioeconomic forces, cultural productions, and academic lenses that assess sexuality as it intersects with race. Some of the essays trace the historical and contemporary markets for sexual labor and systems of erotic capital. Other essays illuminate how forces of commodification, exploitation, and appropriation, which render black sexualities both desirable and deviant, also provide the spaces, networks, and relationships that have allowed black people to revise, recuperate, and re-articulate their sexual identities, erotic capital, and gender and sexual expressions and relations. The collection focuses on three themes linked by the major theory of black sexual economy: sex labor and race play; drag and hypersexual performance; and the erotics of life and death.
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