Magic, culture and the new economy
By: edited by Orvar Löfgren and Robert Willim
Contributors: Löfgren, Orvar; Willim, Robert
Publisher: Berg
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 145
Subjects: Technology -- Sociological aspects; Technological innovations -- Social aspects; Nineteen nineties; Civilization, Modern -- 1950-; Social change
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the Mandrake mode / Orvar Löfgren and Robert Willim; title: Meditation, magic and spiritual regeneration: spas and the mass production of serenity / Tom O'Dell; title: Trick or treatment: brokers in biotech / Lynn Åkesson; title: Possessed by enterprise: values and value-creation in Mandrake management / Karen Lisa Goldschmidt Salamon; title: Catwalking and coolhunting: the production of newness / Orvar Löfgren; title: Transformers: hip hotels and the cultural economics of aura-production / Maria Christersdotter; title: Spectral events: attempts at pattern recognition / Per-Markku Ristilammi; title: It's in the mix: configuring industrial cool / Robert Willim; title: A land of milk and money: the dairy counter in an economy of added values / Håkan Jönsson; title: Flexible, adaptable, employable: ethics for a new labour market / Karin Salomonsson