Consumerism

This collection of essays connects Lion Feuchtwangers work to the gendered experience of exile during the period of National Socialism. The article...

Where and who do we want to be? How might we get there? What might happen if we stay on our current course?The Future of Stuff asks what kind of wo...

At a time of growing wealth and income inequality in the United States during recent decades, Class and Inequality in the United States examines th...

'This book is genius. It pinpoints all the things I have ever felt about my wardrobe... It's funny, charming and brilliantly explained. You'll feel...

This edited volume provides a marketing perspective on maladaptive consumer behavior, especially behavior with dysfunctional consequences that does...

From Marcus Collins, strategist to Apple, Nike and Beyoncé, discover how you can harness the most powerful vehicle for influencing behaviour: true ...

In this compelling history, Peter Chapman shows how the United Fruit Company took bananas from the jungles of Costa Rica to the halls of power in W...

 Why do people behave and think the way they do? What makes people choose certain products and services? How does consumption affect our everyday l...

In Speculative Communities, Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou examines the ways that speculation has moved beyond financial markets to shape fundamental a...

Amid a display of sunshine-yellow electric appliances in a model home at the 1959 American National Exhibition in Moscow, Soviet Premier Nikita Khr...

We live in a society that defines us by what we consume and how. Every day we make purchasing decisions that express our sense of belonging, our co...

Balancing psychological, conceptual and historical analyses with examples drawn from popular culture and mass media, Rami Gabriel traces the ways i...

The Dialectic of Taste examines the aesthetic economy in the context of economic crises. It explains how a new concern for aesthetics, seen in arti...

From food products to fashions and cosmetics to childrens toys, a wide range of commodities today are being marketed as halal (permitted, lawful) o...

In the decades following World War II, the creation and expansion of massive domestic markets and relatively stable economies allowed for mass cons...

In the decades following World War II, the creation and expansion of massive domestic markets and relatively stable economies allowed for mass cons...

Have you ever had a holiday wrecked by a smelly hotel room? Lousy train service? Local Council Bureaucracy? A defective washing machine? Are the pe...

From food products to fashions and cosmetics to childrens toys, a wide range of commodities today are being marketed as halal (permitted, lawful) o...

Why do text messages cost money while e-mails are free? How does Apple persuade people to pay for music instead of downloading it for nothing? In P...

This book examines the public controversies surrounding lifestyle risks in the consumer society. Comparing news coverage of the 'globesity' pandemi...

In recent years children have become an increasingly important consumer market, and there is growing concern about the 'commercialisation' of child...