The politics and pleasures of consuming differently
Subtitle: better than shopping
By: [edited by] Kate Soper, Martin Ryle, Lyn Thomas.
Contributors: Soper, Kate.; Ryle, Martin H.; Thomas, Lyn, 1953-
Series: Consumption and public life
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780230537286
Subjects: Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects; Consumption (Economics) -- Environmental aspects; Consumption (Economics) -- Moral and ethical aspects; Shopping; Quality of life
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Kate Soper; title: Texts and representations. Representing consumers / Roberta Sassatelli; The past, the future and the golden age / Martin Ryle; Ecochic: contemporary lifestyle magazines / Lyn Thomas; Mediated culture and exemptionalism / Simon Blanchard; title: Value, hedonism, critique. The bohemianhabitus / Sam Binkley; Sustainable hedonism / Marius de Geus; Green pleasures / Richard Kerridge; title: Everyday consumption. Happiness and the consumption of mobility / Juliet Solomon; Gendering anti-consumerism / Jo Littler; Growing sustainable consumption communities / Gill Seyfang; title: Conclusion / Martin Ryle, Kate Soper, and Lyn Thomas.