Essays about: "Commodity fetishism."

Found 5 essays containing the words Commodity fetishism..

  1. 1. The Swedish bilberry industry : a case study on food commodification and spatial irrationalities

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

    Author : Lotten Lundgren; [2021]
    Keywords : Bilberries; commodification; food miles; spatial irrationalities; commodity fetishism; time-space compression.;

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  3. 2. Neoclassical Economics and Development: A critical review of the convergence hypothesis

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

    Author : Heidar Nouri; [2013]
    Keywords : convergence; Washington consensus; development; postmodern critic; neoclassical economics; neo-liberalism; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This paper aims to critically review scientific purports by neoclassical economics, in particular when it comes to international development politics. Strive for global unified economies conceptualized through the convergence theorem and its extensional implementation through Washington consensus is the main goal of liberal ideology. READ MORE

  4. 3. Politics for breakfast - a study of politics, consumption and commodities in Sweden

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Erik Gustavsson; [2011]
    Keywords : Political consumerism; human ecology; political consumption; commodity cultures; commodity narratives; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis is focused on exploring what insights a human ecological perspective could provide on the understanding and practice of political consumerism. This is divided and conducted in two sections, the first section is a theoretical discussion which is devoted to defining political consumerism and reconseptualizing some aspects and components of it as well as to positioning it in a wider and more integrated context. READ MORE

  5. 4. Patrick Bateman, Violence and Consumption: Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho

    University essay from Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation

    Author : Alexander Nystrand; [2010]
    Keywords : Marxism; Consumption; Consumerism; Homogeneity; Commodities; Use-value; Exchange-value; Sign-exchange value; Socioeconomic; Class-consciousness; Commodity fetishism.;

    Abstract : This essay investigates how Bret Easton Ellis portrays Patrick Bateman as a projection of American society, in order to criticize consumerism and capitalism in his novel American Psycho. By applying Marxist theory, this essay examines Bateman's consumption patterns and class-consciousness using key Marxist terms. READ MORE

  6. 5. Deconstructing culinary culture : a critical outline of a theory on the culinarization of the self

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Manuel Actis; [2003]
    Keywords : Sociology; Sociologi; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The thesis is an outline of a theory on the "culinarization of the self", which is linked with a theoretical framework, shaping the subject in an everyday experience by power dynamics related to discourse and ideology. Practises such as eating and cooking are flavoured by an exposed Western discourse in popular media. READ MORE