KATE SOPER is a Professor of Philosophy in the Institute for the Study of European Transformations at London Metropolitan University, UK. She is well known for her work on the philosophy of nature and as a theorist of need and consumption, and has recently completed a research project on 'Alternative hedonism' in the ESRC/AHRC 'Cultures of Consumption' Programme. In addition to this volume, she is a co-editor (with Lyn Thomas and Martin Ryle) of Counter-Consumerism and its Pleasures (forthcoming). FRANK TRENTMANN is Professor of Modern History at Birkbeck College, University of L

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• List of Illustrations List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: K.Soper & F.Trentmann PART 1: RETRIEVAL Civic Choices: Retrieving Perspectives on Rationality, Consumption, and Citizenship; M.Bevir & F.Trentmann Consumption and Politics in Twentieth-Century China; K.Gerth Sartorial Manoeuvres in the Dusk: Blue Jeans in Socialist Hungary; F.Hammer PART 2: TALK AND ACTION Consuming without Paying: Stealing or Campaigning? The Civic Implications of Civil Disobedience around Access to Water; B.Morgan The Banality of Consumption; M.Hilton 'Public Connection' and the Uncertain Norms of Media Consumption; N.Couldry, S.Livingstone & T.Markham The Moral Force of Consumption and Capitalism: Anti-Slavery and Anti-Sweatshop; M.Micheletti PART 3: PROSPECTS Exit Homo Politicus , Enter Homo Consumens ; Z.Bauman Consumer Citizenship in Post-national Constellations?; M.Everson & C.Joerges Sustainability, Well-being and Consumption: The Limits of Hedonic Approaches; J.O'Neill 'Alternative Hedonism' and the Citizen-Consumer; K.Soper Index