Title: The politics of shopping : what consumers learn about identity, globalization, and social change /
Authors: Jubas, Kaela.
Publisher: Left Coast Press,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Culture and globalization.; Shopping Political aspects.; Shopping Social aspects.; Shopping Psychological aspects.; Consumption (Economics) Political aspects.; Globalization Economic aspects; Shopping in literature.
Abstract: This book focuses on contemporary shopping practices, analyzing the ways concerned shoppers think about globalization, consumption, and their personal effect on the status quo.
Contents: In the beginning... -- Under the microscope : conceptual map -- Snapping the picture : envisioning the research project -- Novel consumption : going shopping and learning with fictional characters -- The disciplines of shopping : what participants learn to do -- Growing up with, growing into, growing out of : who participants learn to be -- At the root of it all : how participants learn to make change -- Somewhere around the middle.