Consumption Reader

Name: Consumption Reader
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ISBN: 9780415213776

ISBN-10: 0415213770

ISBN-13: 9780415213776

Edition: 2003

Authors: David B. Clarke, Kate M. L. Housiaux, Marcus A. Doel

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Drawing from the arts, humanities, and social sciences, 'The Consumption Reader' presents the history and geography of consumer societies, the social and political aspects of consumer culture and the discourses and practices of consumption.

Book details

List price: $78.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 6/17/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



General Introduction



History Introduction



onsumption in early modern social thought




The consumer revolution of eighteenth-century England




Consumerism and the Industrial Revolution




Traditional and modern hedonism




Industrialism, consumerism, and power




The governance of consumption




Societies of consumers and consumer societies




Geography Introduction



Night life




What's modern about the modern world-system?




The Empire's old clothes




Plurality of taste




The world on a plate




The 'consumption' of tourism




A new look at gentrification




Urban lifestyles




Subjects and identity Introduction



Consumer sovereignty




The consumer's revolt




Subculture and style




Subcultures or neo-tribes?




Consumption and class




The body in consumer culture




Commerce and femininity




The three-body problem and the end of the world




Objects and Technology Introduction



The genealogy of advertising




Where are the missing masses?




Rodchenko in Paris




Toys




The Hoover in the garden




The two-way mirror




'We know who you are and we know where you live'




Theory Introduction



The gift and potlatch




Sacrifices and the wars of the Aztecs




Pecuniary emulation




The philosophy of fashion




Classes and classifications




Consumption and production




The ideological genesis of needs




The practice of everyday life