Simonetta Falasca Zamponi: 2 books
States of Memory
Continuities, Conflicts, and Transformations in National Retrospection
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2003
States of Memory illuminates the construction of national memory from a comparative perspective. The essays collected here emphasize that memory itself has a history: not only do particular meanings change, but the very faculty of memory—its place in social relations and the forms it takes—varies...
Waste and Consumption
Capitalism, the Environment, and the Life of Things
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
This book examines the link between waste and consumption through a cultural approach that integrates environmental concerns with reflections on the role that consumption has come to occupy in our contemporary capitalist societies. The mutual relationship between capitalism and consumption is addressed...