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Consumer Culture and Personal Finance
Money Goes to Market
Av J. Botterill
Inbunden, 2010
569 kr
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This book explores the personal savings and credit discourses surrounding post-war British consumer culture. This cultural history highlights the contradictory meanings of home ownership, domesticity, women's consumerism, and banking deregulation that underwrote unprecedented financial crisis and …
Advertising, Commercial Spaces and the Urban
Inbunden, 2010
552 kr
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Providing a detailed account of contemporary outdoor advertising and its relationship with urban space, this book examines what the outdoor advertising industry tells us about the commercial production of urban space, what industry practices reveal about contemporary capitalism, and how ads and …
Media Consumption and Public Engagement
Beyond the Presumption of Attention
Av N. Couldry, S. Livingstone m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
1098 kr
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Democracy is based on the belief that the media gets the attention of voters. But is this plausible in an age of multiplying media, disillusionment with the political system and time-scarcity? This book addresses this question, and charts experiences of 'public connection'.
Culture of the Slow
Social Deceleration in an Accelerated World
Inbunden, 2013
552 kr
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Across the world, there has been a growing dissatisfaction with the tempo of modern life. Described simply as the 'slow phenomenon', this volume explores this new brand of living that entails not simply slowing down but an embracing of alternative activities that promote meaning, thoughtfulness, …
European Consumer Citizen in Law and Policy
Av J. Davies
Inbunden, 2011
508 kr
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This book provides a detailed analysis, within an EU setting, of what we may mean by the phrase 'consumer citizen'. It examines the characterizations of the consumer in EU law and policy and argues the case for a limited conflation of the hitherto distinct concepts of the consumer and the citizen. …
Fair Trade and the Citizen-Consumer
Shopping for Justice?
Av K. Wheeler
Inbunden, 2012
552 kr
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As sales of fair-trade goods explode across the globe, Fair Trade and the Citizen-Consumer provides a timely analysis of the organizations, institutions and grassroots networks behind this growing movement. Drawing on examples from the UK, Sweden and USA, this book moves away from models of …
Eco-Standards, Product Labelling and Green Consumerism
Häftad, 2008
1098 kr
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As conscientious consumers, we become overwhelmed with alarms about food contamination, climate change, chemical pollution and other environmental and health-related risks. This book explores green and politically engaged consumersim, asking the question: does green labelling offer ways toward a …
Fitness Culture
Gyms and the Commercialisation of Discipline and Fun
Inbunden, 2010
552 kr
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This book provides a sociological perspective on fitness culture as developed in commercial gyms, investigating the cultural relevance of gyms in terms of the history of the commercialization of body discipline, the negotiation of gender identities and distinction dynamics within contemporary …
Lived Experiences of Public Consumption
Encounters with Value in Marketplaces on Five Continents
Av D. Cook
Inbunden, 2008
552 kr
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This collection of original ethnographically based research from five continents, provides insights into the dynamics of stability and change in our globalizing world. The chapters comprising Live Experiences of Public Consumption give a vivid account of how cultural and economic value intertwine …
Governance, Consumers and Citizens
Agency and Resistance in Contemporary Politics
Av M. Bevir, F. Trentmann
Inbunden, 2007
1098 kr
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This is the first book to focus on governance and cultures of consumption, expanding the debate and raising new conceptions and policy agendas. It questions the changing place of the consumer as citizen in recent trends in governance, the tensions between competing ideas and practices of …
Politics and Pleasures of Consuming Differently
Av F. Trentmann, M. Ryle m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
1425 kr
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This volume casts a critical eye on representations and practices of consumption in the Western world. It offers a unique contemporary perspective on the themes of counter-consumerism, ecological crisis and sustainability that are rising fast on the political and cultural agenda.
Eco-Standards, Product Labelling and Green Consumerism
Inbunden, 2008
1098 kr
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As conscientious consumers, we become overwhelmed with alarms about food contamination, climate change, chemical pollution and other environmental and health-related risks. This book explores green and politically engaged consumersim, asking the question: does green labelling offer ways toward a …
Globesity, Food Marketing and Family Lifestyles
Inbunden, 2010
552 kr
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This book examines the public controversies surrounding lifestyle risks in the consumer society. Comparing news coverage of the 'globesity' pandemic in Britain and the USA, it illustrates the way moral panic brought children's food marketing to the centre of the policy debates about consumer …
Consumption and the Transformation of Everyday Life
A View from South India
Av H. Wilhite
Inbunden, 2008
552 kr
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Harold Wilhite makes an important new contribution to the interpretation of changing consumption in India, using an ethnographic approach to interrogate the rapid growth in the consumption of household durables, beauty and cleanliness products, exploring how the engagement of local practices with …
Multinational Retailers and Consumers in China
Transferring Organizational Practices from the United Kingdom and Japan
Av J. Gamble
Inbunden, 2011
552 kr
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This book investigates the transfer of parent country organizational practices by the retailers to their Chinese subsidiaries, providing insights into employment relations in multinational retail firms and changing labour-management systems in China, as well as their impact on consumer culture.
Citizenship and Consumption
Av F. Trentmann
Inbunden, 2007
1316 kr
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This book provides a timely forum for current thinking on consumption and citizenship, exploring overlaps and tensions between them. Experts from history, theory, media studies, law, and civil society, retrieve alternative traditions of consumption and citizenship in West and East, and evaluate the …
Time, Consumption and the Coordination of Everyday Life
Inbunden, 2020
880 kr
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Time pressure, speed and the desire for instant consumption pervade accounts of contemporary lives. Why is it that people feel pressed for time, in what ways have societies changed to create this condition, and with what implications? This book examines critical contentions in the field of time and …
Soviet Dream World of Retail Trade and Consumption in the 1930s
Av A. Randall
Inbunden, 2008
1243 kr
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In the early 1930s Soviet authorities launched a campaign to create "socialist" retailing and also endorsed Soviet consumerism. How did the Stalinist regime reconcile retailing and consumption with socialism? This book examines the discourses that the Stalinist regime's new approach to retailing …
Religion, Consumerism and Sustainability
Paradise Lost?
Av L. Thomas
Inbunden, 2010
552 kr
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To varying degrees, classic religions are associated with critique of materialistic values. Onto this opposition of the market and the temple other binaries have been grafted, so that 'North' and the 'West' are portrayed as secular and materialistic, 'South' and 'East' either as 'tigers' pursuing …
Consumption Norms and Everyday Ethics
Inbunden, 2014
552 kr
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How much is acceptable to consume? What is appropriate to consume and which goods fall into the disapproved category? Answers to these questions vary widely across time and space. This book examines the sources of this variation by providing an account of how everyday consumption norms develop, why …
Smart Energy Technologies in Everyday Life
Smart Utopia?
Av Y. Strengers
Inbunden, 2013
552 kr
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This book interrogates the global utopian vision for smart energy technologies and the new energy consumer intended to realise it. It enriches and extends the possibilities of four residential smart strategies: energy feedback, dynamic pricing, home automation and micro-generation, focusing on how …
Coffee Activism and the Politics of Fair Trade and Ethical Consumption in the Global North
Political Consumerism and Cultural Citizenship
Inbunden, 2013
552 kr
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This book explores the politics borne of consumption through the case of coffee activism and ethical consumption. It analyses the agencies, structures, repertoires and technologies of promotion and participation in the politics of fair trade consumption through an exploration of the relationship …
Food Consumption in Global Perspective
Essays in the Anthropology of Food in Honour of Jack Goody
Av J. Klein, A. Murcott
Inbunden, 2014
569 kr
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With studies of China, India, West Africa, South America and Europe, this book provides a global perspective on food consumption in the modern world. Combing ethnographic, historical and comparative analyses, the volume celebrates the contributions of Jack Goody to the anthropology of food.
Household Recycling and Consumption Work
Social and Moral Economies
Av Kathryn Wheeler, Miriam Glucksmann
Inbunden, 2015
552 kr
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Consumers are not usually incorporated into the sociological concept of 'division of labour', but using the case of household recycling, this book shows why this foundational concept needs to be revised.
Advertising, Commercial Spaces and the Urban
Häftad, 2010
552 kr
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Providing a detailed account of contemporary outdoor advertising and its relationship with urban space, this book examines what the outdoor advertising industry tells us about the commercial production of urban space, what industry practices reveal about contemporary capitalism, and how ads and …
Culture of the Slow
Social Deceleration in an Accelerated World
Häftad, 2013
552 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Across the world, there has been a growing dissatisfaction with the tempo of modern life. Described simply as the 'slow phenomenon', this volume explores this new brand of living that entails not simply slowing down but an embracing of alternative activities that promote meaning, thoughtfulness, …
Fair Trade and the Citizen-Consumer
Shopping for Justice?
Av K. Wheeler
Häftad, 2012
552 kr
Lägg i varukorg
As sales of fair-trade goods explode across the globe, Fair Trade and the Citizen-Consumer provides a timely analysis of the organizations, institutions and grassroots networks behind this growing movement. Drawing on examples from the UK, Sweden and USA, this book moves away from models of …
Fitness Culture
Gyms and the Commercialisation of Discipline and Fun
Häftad, 2014
552 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book provides a sociological perspective on fitness culture as developed in commercial gyms, investigating the cultural relevance of gyms in terms of the history of the commercialization of body discipline, the negotiation of gender identities and distinction dynamics within contemporary …
Lived Experiences of Public Consumption
Encounters with Value in Marketplaces on Five Continents
Av D. Cook
Häftad, 2008
552 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This collection of original ethnographically based research from five continents, provides insights into the dynamics of stability and change in our globalizing world. The chapters comprising Live Experiences of Public Consumption give a vivid account of how cultural and economic value intertwine …
Governance, Consumers and Citizens
Agency and Resistance in Contemporary Politics
Av M. Bevir, F. Trentmann
Häftad, 2007
1098 kr
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This is the first book to focus on governance and cultures of consumption, expanding the debate and raising new conceptions and policy agendas. It questions the changing place of the consumer as citizen in recent trends in governance, the tensions between competing ideas and practices of …
