Muji, materiality, and mundane geographies

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 555-569

  Holloway, Julian J ^a   Hones, Sheila ^b  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; MARKETING;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 34047217643     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a3925     Document Type: Article

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