Intimacies, Critical Consumption and Diverse Economies [electronic resource] /
Taylor, Yvette.editor.
Casey, Emma.editor.
This collection explores the relationships between the emotional and material, engaging with and developing the debates surrounding the emotional and material labour involved in producing and reproducing domestic and intimate spaces. The contributions examine the geographies and spaces of consumption in international and local-global spheres.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover ; Title ; Copyright ; Contents ; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Also by Emma Casey and Yvette Taylor ; Introduction                   ; Part I Expanding the Field: Conceptualising Intimate Consumption                                                                       ; 1 Collective Action and Domestic Practices: England in the 1830s and 1840s
2 Buying the Ties That Bind: Consumption, Care and Intimate Investment among Transnational Households in Highland Ecuador                                                                                                                                3 Interconnectivities and Material Agencies: Consumption, Fashion, and Intimacy in Zhu Tianwen's 'Fin-de-Siècle Splendor'
Part II 'Sticky' and Shifting Sites of Intimate Consumption                                                                  4 'My Bedroom Is Me': Young People, Private Space, Consumption and the Family Home                                                                                         ; 5 The Transgressive Potential of Families in Commercial Homes
6 Belonging in Difficult Family Circumstances: Emotions, Intimacies and Consumption                                                                                          7 'You're Not Going Out Dressed Like That!': Lessons in Fashion Consumption, Taste and Class                                                                                                   ; Part III The Intimate Social Life of Commodities
8 Pretty Pants and Office Pants: Making Home, Identity and Belonging in a Workplace                                                                                          9 Buying for Baby: How Middle-Class Mothers Negotiate Risk with Second-Hand Goods                                                                                        ; 10 The Hidden Lives of Domestic Things: Accumulations in Cupboards, Lofts, and Shelves                                                                                             ; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This collection explores the relationships between the emotional and material, engaging with and developing the debates surrounding the emotional and material labour involved in producing and reproducing domestic and intimate spaces. The contributions examine the geographies and spaces of consumption in international and local-global spheres.
Sociology.
Feminist theory.
Families.
Families—Social aspects.
Economic sociology.
Education.
Gender Studies.
Feminism.
Sociology, general.
Family.
Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.
Popular Science in Education.