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Modern Colonialism, Globalization, and Commodity Culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23756704 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tim Burke (0009-0003-9593-303X, Swarthmore College, corresponding author), Timothy Burke (History, Swarthmore College) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Pages | 467-484 |
| Publication date | 2012-09-18 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | The Oxford Handbook Of The History Of Consumption (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199561216.013.0024 |
| OpenAlex | W2579519985 |
| ISBN | 9780199561216 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 6 |
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.
Agency (philosophy) · Colonialism · Commodification · Commodity · Consumerism · Consumption (sociology) · Context (archaeology) · Cultural globalization · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Globalization · Market economy · Modernity · Modernization theory · Political economy · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Westernization · Australian History and Society · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law
| Citations per year | 0.36 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2018 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |