This volume casts a critical eye on representations and practices of consumption in the Western world. It offers a unique contemporary perspective on the themes of counter-consumerism, ecological crisis and sustainability that are rising fast on the political and cultural agenda. ÍNDICE: Introduction Kate Soper - PART I: Texts and representations - Representing Consumers; R. Sassatelli - The Past, the Future and the Golden Age; M. Ryle - Ecochic: Contemporary Lifestyle Magazines; L. Thomas - Mediated Culture and Exemptionalism; S. Blanchard - PART II: Value, hedonism, critique - TheBohemianHabitus; S. Binkley - Sustainable Hedonism; M. de Geus - Green Pleasures; R. Kerridge - PART III: Everyday consumption - Happiness and the Consumption of Mobility; J. Solomon - Gendering Anti-Consumerism; J. Littler - GrowingSustainable Consumption Communities; G.Seyfang - PART IV: Conclusion - Conclusion; M. Ryle, K. Soper and L. Thomas
- ISBN: 978-0-230-53728-6
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 240
- Fecha Publicación: 05/12/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés