History, Theory and Politics
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Köp båda 2 för 843 krThis is a model of what a text book ought to be. Over the past decade the original debates about consumption have been overlaid by a vast amount of detailed research, and it seems unimaginable that a single text couuld do justice to all of these. To do so would involve as much a commitment to depth as to breadth. I was quite astonished at how well Sassatelli succeeds in balancing the two. It covers a huge amount of ground in its three main sections which are roughly historical, theories of consumer agency, and finally the politics of consumption... Ultimately, it's the book that I would trust to help people digest what we now have discovered about consumption and start from a much more mature and reflective foundation to consider what more we might yet do.
Daniel Miller
Material World Blog
The author needs to be applauded for taking on the vast challenge of presenting the enormous width and the manifold implications of consumption on the wider social structure and culture of modern societies. In modern markets, people talk, not money.
Marian Adolf and Nico Stehr
Cultural Sociology
Sassatelli's relational approach to consumption certainly avoids falling into deterministic or univocal accounts... She frames her book with a series of dichotomies, swinging theoretical pendulums from apocalyptic pessimism to celebratory freedom... Readers will no doubt be impressed with Sassatelli's refusal to take any single account of consumption without rich and critical questioning.
Ashley Mears
The Ambivalence of Consumption
In just 237 pages Sassatelli has written an impressive survey of an extraordinarily large and varied literature focusing primarily on developments in Europe and North America... And it is this vast compendium of research studies on consumer practices on these two continents carrying us through the present that makes this book so significant. Moreover, to make its contents accessible to students as well as professionals, it is written as a textbook with eight chapters, each of which is followed by a concise summary. Also helpful to readers is an insightful epilogue followed by a concluding section providing the author's recommendations of additional reading for students of consumer culture... To conclude, this is an intellectually impressive book that takes a fresh up-to-date approach to developments in consumer culture on both sides of the Atlantic. And while the author has far greater familiarity with consumer culture on the European side, major North American developments are not overlooked. the result is a new and helpful international approach to consumer culture at the dawn of the twenty-first century.
Monroe Friedman
Journal of American Cultures
In my view, Sassate...
The Rise of Consumer Culture; Capitalism and the consumer revolution: Consumption, production and exchange The development of modern consumption patterns From courts to cities, from luxuries to fashion; The cultural production of economic value: Commodity flows, knowledge flows The invention of the consumer and the social life of things Consumer culture as historical type; Theories of consumer action; Utility and social competition: The sovereign consumer The limits of economic rationality Fashion, style and conspicuous consumption Beyond emulation; False needs and simulation: From fetishism to critical theory Nature, authenticity, resistance Pessimism and post-modernism The social relations of consumption; Taste, identity and practices: Routines and social distinction Cultural classification and identity Appropriating commodities; The politics of consumption; Consumerism and promotional culture: The anti-consumerist rhetoric and the apology of consumption Commercial images and promotion The functions and meanings of ads; Commodities and consumers: ommoditization and decommoditization The value of things and the boundaries of commoditization The normalization of consumption; Contexts of consumption: Leisure time and consuming places The home and cultural consumption McDonaldization and its limits The global, the local and the alternative.