Browsing by Subject "consumerism"
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(2014-11-26)Department: HistoryThis dissertation analyzes the evolution of the Tennessee Valley Authority’s power program and its effect on residential electricity use, economic growth, and environmental change in the Tennessee Valley Region between ...
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(2006-10-30)Department: ReligionThis project analyzes the effects of consumerism on identity and consumerism’s misunderstanding of freedom and identity. The dissertation argues that identity cannot be easily defined because paradoxically it does not ...
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(2006-04-17)Department: Social and Political ThoughtThis thesis describes René Girard’s mimetic theory of desire and explicates its relevance for a critique of consumerism, emphasizing the loss of identity that can result from mimesis in a consumer society. It first presents ...