Consumption and Consumer Society

Colin Campbell

• Hardcover | Engels | Consumption and Public Life
• This collection of high quality, largely previously published essays, analyses a range of controversies in the field of the sociology of culture and c... Lees meer

Fair Trade and the Citizen-Consumer

K Wheeler

• Hardcover | Engels | Consumption and Public Life
• As sales of fair-trade goods explode across the globe, Fair Trade and the Citizen-Consumer provides a timely analysis of the organizations, institutio... Lees meer

Culture of the Slow

• Hardcover | Engels | Consumption and Public Life
• Across the world, there has been a polite uprising to the perceived meaninglessness and stress of our accelerated and consumer driven lifestyles. Desc... Lees meer

Citizenship and Consumption

• Hardcover | Engels | Consumption and Public Life
• This book provides a timely forum for current thinking on consumption and citizenship, exploring overlaps and tensions between them. Experts from hist... Lees meer

Eco-Standards, Product Labelling and Green Consumerism

M Boström, M Klintman

• Paperback | Engels | Consumption and Public Life
• As conscientious consumers, we become overwhelmed with alarms about food contamination, climate change, chemical pollution and other environmental and... Lees meer

Consumption, Sustainability and Everyday Life

• Paperback | Engels | Consumption and Public Life
• This open access book seeks to understand why we consume as we do, how consumption changes, and why we keep consuming more and more, despite the visib... Lees meer

Smart Energy Technologies in Everyday Life

Y Strengers

• Paperback | Engels | Consumption and Public Life
• This book interrogates the global utopian vision for smart energy technologies and the new energy consumer intended to realise it. It enriches and ext... Lees meer

Smart Energy Technologies in Everyday Life

Y Strengers

• Hardcover | Engels | Consumption and Public Life
• The rise of smart energy technologies is transforming all aspects of social life. This innovative book critically interrogates the global utopian visi... Lees meer

Consumption and Vietnam's New Middle Classes

Arve Hansen

• Hardcover | Engels | Consumption and Public Life
• This book studies the dramatic changes in consumption patterns in Vietnam over the past decades, combining a focus on everyday practices and societal ... Lees meer

Globesity, Food Marketing and Family Lifestyles

Stephen Kline

• Paperback | Engels | Consumption and Public Life
• This book examines the public controversies surrounding lifestyle risks in the consumer society. Comparing news coverage of the 'globesity' pandemic i... Lees meer

Consumption, Sustainability and Everyday Life

• Hardcover | Engels | Consumption and Public Life
• This open access book seeks to understand why we consume as we do, how consumption changes, and why we keep consuming more and more, despite the visib... Lees meer

Consumer Nationalism and Barr's Irn-Bru in Scotland

David Leishman

• Hardcover | Engels | Consumption and Public Life
• This book connects a detailed analysis of Irn-Bru's brand identity over time to theories of national identity, consumer studies, and banal nationalism... Lees meer

Consumption Norms and Everyday Ethics

L Pellandini-Simánya

• Paperback | Engels | Consumption and Public Life
• How much is acceptable to consume? What is appropriate to consume and which goods fall into the disapproved category? Answers to these questions vary ... Lees meer

The Sovereign Consumer

Niklas Olsen

• Paperback | Engels | Consumption and Public Life
• This book presents a new intellectual history of neoliberalism through the exploration of the sovereign consumer. Invented by neoliberal thinkers in t... Lees meer

Digital Food Provisioning in Times of Multiple Crises

• Hardcover | Engels | Consumption and Public Life
• This edited collection brings together theoretical and empirical reflections on the role played by new technology and digital platforms in the provisi... Lees meer

Advertising, Commercial Spaces and the Urban

Anne M Cronin

• Paperback | Engels | Consumption and Public Life
• Providing a detailed account of contemporary outdoor advertising and its relationship with urban space, this book examines what the outdoor advertisin... Lees meer

Coffee Activism and the Politics of Fair Trade and Ethical Consumption in the Global North

Eleftheria J Lekakis

• Hardcover | Engels | Consumption and Public Life
• In a politically uncertain and distrusted world, citizens appear to be seeking political expression in their everyday lives and quite prominently in t... Lees meer

Multinational Retailers and Consumers in China

J Gamble

• Paperback | Engels | Consumption and Public Life
• This book investigates the transfer of parent country organizational practices by the retailers to their Chinese subsidiaries, providing insights into... Lees meer

Coffee Activism and the Politics of Fair Trade and Ethical Consumption in the Global North

Eleftheria J Lekakis

• Paperback | Engels | Consumption and Public Life
• This book explores the politics borne of consumption through the case of coffee activism and ethical consumption. It analyses the agencies, structures... Lees meer

Italians and Food

• Paperback | Engels | Consumption and Public Life
• This book is a novel and original collection of essays on Italians and food. Food culture is central both to the way Italians perceive their national ... Lees meer

Fitness Culture

Roberta Sassatelli

• Paperback | Engels | Consumption and Public Life
• This book provides a sociological perspective on fitness culture as developed in commercial gyms, investigating the cultural relevance of gyms in term... Lees meer

Aesthetico-Cultural Cosmopolitanism and French Youth

Vincenzo Cicchelli, Sylvie Octobre

• Hardcover | Engels | Consumption and Public Life
• By examining cultural consumption, tastes and imaginaries as a means of relating to the world, this book describes the effects of globalization on you... Lees meer

Food, Social Change and Identity

• Hardcover | Engels | Consumption and Public Life
• Unlike food publications that have been more organized along regional or disciplinary lines, this edited volume is distinctive in that it brings toget... Lees meer

Culture of the Slow

• Paperback | Engels | Consumption and Public Life
• Across the world, there has been a growing dissatisfaction with the tempo of modern life. Described simply as the 'slow phenomenon', this volume explo... Lees meer