Packaging Life: Cultures of the Everyday

by Pramod K. Nayar

Packaging Life: Cultures of the Everyday is a study of the cultural politics of four aspects of everyday life - health, comfort, risk and mobility - as manifest in public culture. The book explores the commodification of these aspects, arguing that our experience and perception are mediated by discourses circulating in the mass media. The author explores how notions of 'good' health, 'cosmopolitan' identities, and 'luxurious' lifestyles are constructed,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8132102401
• ISBN13: 9788132102403
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.5"