In The Ambivalent Consumer, Sheldon Garon and Patricia L. Maclachlan bring together an array of scholars who explore the ambivalence provoked, especially in East and Southeast Asia, by the global spread of "American" consumer culture. As the world's second-largest economy, Japan has long engaged in a vibrant consumerism tempered by deeply held beliefs about morality, thrift, community, and national identity. Its neighbors in East and Southeast Asia-South Korea, China, Malaysia, and Singapore-have likewise anxiously balanced consumption and saving. The first comparative volume to examine global phenomena of consumer culture from the perspective of East Asia, this book analyzes not only the attractions of mass consumption but also the many discontents and dilemmas that arise from consumerism.
Placing Japan and the United States in a transnational context, the book's contributors find that European countries more closely resemble Japan than they do the United States in their saving rates, consumption levels, environmental concerns, and discomfort with consumer credit. The Ambivalent Consumer offers a useful perspective on the political economies of consumption to address such pressing topics as movements against genetically modified foods; shifting relations among consumers, producers, and states; the differential influence of gender on consumption; and conflicting consumer attitudes toward globalization.
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"The Ambivalent Consumer is deeply researched and elegantly written. In a book that addresses a wide range of problems that extend well beyond consumers' desires and decision-making, the authors highlight the synergistic roles played by governments on the one hand and consumers on the other."—Gary D. Allinson, Ellen Bayard Weedon Professor of East Asian Studies, University of Virginia, author of Japan’s Postwar History
Sheldon Garon is Professor of History and East Asian Studies at Princeton University. He is the author of Molding Japanese Minds: The State in Everyday Life and The State and Labor in Modern Japan.
Patricia L. Maclachlan is Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Government at the University of Texas, Austin. She is the author of Consumer Politics in Postwar Japan: The Institutional Boundaries of Citizen Activism.
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