Consumerism

Unconventional and provocative, My Life with Things is Elizabeth Chin's meditation on her relationship with consumer goods and a critical statement...

Whether watching baseball or undergoing heart surgery, Americans have bought a variety of goods and services to achieve happiness. Here is a provoc...

Maori mythology and endless summers: the sparkling second collection from a daring new poetic voiceI am made in the image of my mother ...I am made...

This book develops a groundbreaking, novel approach to examining ethical consumer behaviour from the perspective of evolutionary theory, illustrati...

This collection explores the relationships between the emotional and material, engaging with and developing the debates surrounding the emotional a...

In a world where countless organisations rely on data acquisition and management to learn more about their customers, whats been lost is a genuine ...

To varying degrees, classic religions are associated with critique of materialistic values. Onto this opposition of the market and the temple other...

Political consumerism is turning the market into a site for politics and ethics. It is consumer choice of producers and products on the basis of at...

The larger-than-life story of Bernarr Macfadden, a bodybuilder who turned his obsession with muscles, celebrity, and confession into a publishing e...

In the decades after World War II, evangelical Christianity nourished Americas devotion to free markets, free trade, and free enterprise. The histo...

With growing awareness of environmental deterioration, atmospheric pollution and resource depletion, the last several decades have brought increase...

Globalism, colonialism, and consumerism have caused unjust suffering (han), for the earth's exploited peoples and the exploited lands. To reverse t...

Kaj Ilmonen was a pioneer in the third wave of the sociology of consumption. This book provides a balanced overview of the sociology of consumption...

Consumers are not usually incorporated into the sociological concept of 'division of labour', but using the case of household recycling, this book ...

*** 'This powerful, speaking-truth-to-power book is an essential read for everybody who wants to stop feeling clueless and helpless about the impac...

Hong Kong is the twenty-first-century century paradigmatic capital of consumerism. Of all cities, it has the densest and tallest concentration of m...

Following the global financial crisis of 2008, there has been significant interest among scholars and activists in alternative forms of organizatio...

This book explores the role of radical ideas in contemporary fiction by nine critically acclaimed authors--Jonathan Lethem, Dana Spiotta, China ...

Luxury. The word alone conjures up visions of visions of attractive, desirable lifestyle choices, yet it also faces criticism as a moral vice harmf...

The Routledge Handbook of Global Islam and Consumer Culture is an outstanding inter- and transdisciplinary reference source to key topics, problems...

Examines the Protestant origins of motherhood and the child consumer Throughout history, the responsibility for childrens moral well-being has fal...