"We live in times of increasing world uncertainty. Consumer culture in Asia has embodied such precariousness, with their unprecedented states of both prosperity and vulnerability. Works in this volume examine the consumer cultures that exist in today's precarious Asia. They do this through...

Marketization: Exploring the History and Geographic Expansion of Markets and Market Ideology -- Commodification as an Aspect of Marketization -- The Nature of Modern Marketization -- Stories from communist and capitalist Poland: Polish people on life values under marketization -- Temple...