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Amman Cosmopolitan: Spaces and Practices of Aspiration and Consumption

Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 2010
Neoliberal reforms often have the effect of creating exclusions, but less addressed are the precise ways in which shifting practices of work and leisure have allowed citizens to reimagine their relation to the more desirable dimensions of economic liberalization.
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Cosmopolitan Knowledge and the Production and Consumption of Sexualized Space: Manchester's Gay Village

The Sociological Review, 2004
According to }i~ek (1997) the logic of late capitalism offers opportunities for the incorporation of previously marginalised groups, whilst simultaneously dividing them at the same time. These possibilities for incorporation create divisions on the basis of gender, race, sexuality and class.
Binnie, Jon, Skeggs, Beverley
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Banal cosmopolitanism and The Lord of the Rings: The limited role of national differences in global media consumption

Poetics, 2009
Comparative reception studies are generally built around the expectation to find national cultural differences. Using data from a comparative study on The Lord of the Rings, Return of the King, this paper investigates the role of nationality in the reception of global media texts.
Kuipers, G., de Kloet, J.
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Consumption and Cosmopolitanism: Practicing Modernity at the Second-Hand Marketplace in Nuku'alofa, Tonga

Anthropological Quarterly, 2004
At the second-hand marketplace in Nuku'alofa, the capital of Tonga, Tongans buy and sell objects that their diasporic relatives send them instead of remittances. While selling objects goes against the grain of a traditional moral order, the marketplace is immensely popular but dominated by local Others.
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Aesthetic cosmopolitanism and media consumption of young people in São Paulo

2018
The increased circulation of cultural goods, to the point that they are disseminated worldwide, develops a sense that a global common knowledge exists. In order to understand this context, we consider global culture as an engine of cosmopolitan ways of being, and our perspective focuses on the interaction of global culture and cultural consumption. Our
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Environmental activism and sustainable consumption: the mediating roles of materialism and cosmopolitanism in Canada and Spain

International Marketing Review
Purpose This study investigates the interdependencies among environmental activism, materialism, cosmopolitanism, and consumer responsibility for sustainable consumption. Specifically, it examines dual-pathways of activism's role in sustainability – weakening materialism and reinforcing cosmopolitanism – and how
Fernando Angulo-Ruiz, Josep Rialp
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Buying the Nation and Beyond: Discursive Dilemmas in Debates around Cosmopolitan Consumption

2017
This chapter explores the question of how people articulate (and challenge) the notion of ‘buying national’, and the extent to which they express a preference for cosmopolitan consumption. Using data from 26 focus groups (n = 223) with migrant and non-migrant Australians, it employs a discursive dilemmatic analytical approach to ask whether, when ...
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CONSUMPTION,ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKING,AND SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING IN COSMOPOLITAN BANGKOK

This thesis studies the determinants of subjective well-being, with the main focus on types of consumption, including material, experiential, and online social network (OSN) goods. Friendship types, particularly virtual friends, are also examined, given social changes in today’s digital age.
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Consumption, Class, and the Cosmopolitan in Twenty-First-Century South Korean Culinary Dramas

Journal of Korean Studies
Abstract This article examines South Korean television dramas set in culinary workplaces in the first two decades of the twenty-first century as an integral site of the dialectical globalization of Korean media, technology, cuisine, and culture.
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