{"product_id":"waste-eiko-maruko-siniawer-9781501725845","title":"Waste: Consuming Postwar Japan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWaste\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, Eiko Maruko Siniawer innovatively explores the many ways in which the Japanese have thought about waste--in terms of time, stuff, money, possessions, and resources--from the immediate aftermath of World War II to the present.\u003c\/b\u003e She shows how questions about waste were deeply embedded in the decisions of everyday life, reflecting the priorities and aspirations of the historical moment, and revealing people's ever-changing concerns and hopes. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the course of the long postwar, Japanese society understood waste variously as backward and retrogressive, an impediment to progress, a pervasive outgrowth of mass consumption, incontrovertible proof of societal excess, the embodiment of resources squandered, and a hazard to the environment. Siniawer also shows how an encouragement of waste consciousness served as a civilizing and modernizing imperative, a moral good, an instrument for advancement, a path to self-satisfaction, an environmental commitment, an expression of identity, and more. From the late 1950s onward, a defining element of Japan's postwar experience emerged: the tension between the desire for the privileges of middle-class lifestyles made possible by affluence and dissatisfaction with the logics, costs, and consequences of that very prosperity. This tension complicated the persistent search for what might be called well-being, a good life, or a life well lived. \u003ci\u003eWaste\u003c\/i\u003e is an elegant history of how people lived--how they made sense of, gave meaning to, and found value in the acts of the everyday.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eiko Maruko Siniawer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 150172584X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501725845\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/15\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 414\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.67lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.06d","brand":"Eiko Maruko Siniawer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43996286976255,"sku":"9781501725845","price":56.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d73f2cd7-edcf-4806-b410-e56d10d5c7d6.jpg?v=1683340819","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/waste-eiko-maruko-siniawer-9781501725845","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}