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Transitions in Domestic Consumption and Family Life in the Modern Middle East: Houses in Motion (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003)
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Transitions in Domestic Consumption and Family Life in the Modern Middle East: Houses in Motion (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003)
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The volume focuses on three countries - Egypt, Israel, and Turkey
(earlier the Ottoman Empire) - in the period between the
mid-nineteenth and the early Twenty-first-centuries. It studies the
consumption of homes and domesticity as changing processes in space
and time. It further foregrounds research into the impact of
economic, political, and socio-cultural transformations on the
private life of individuals. Even more so, the volume advances the
discussion on the processes of restructuring of self-identity and
lifestyles via acts of consumption. The volume focuses on the
market where producers and consumers meet, the state and the
national movements with their respective ideologies and practices,
the role of advertisers, but also the agency of individual and
group choice. In addition, it discusses, in different ways, the
close interrelations between the representation of home and
domestic life, for example in journals, books, and photography, and
the political economy of house consumption. Thus, this volume
avoids the notion of linearity and 'progress' in the transition to
modern lifestyles in favour of more subtle accounts of the
different venues in which people in the Middle East restructure
their most immediate and intimate surroundings.
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