Consumerism

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

This book is not a taste, nor an anti-taste, manual.This is an interrogation of the importance we place on seemingly objective ideas of taste in a ...

What about museums, universities, and performing arts venues? Is there still a place for these thousand-year-old institutions in our lives? Or are ...

The idea of Canada as a consumer society was largely absent before 1890 but familiar by the mid-1960s. This change required more than rising income...

Inhabitants of Medellín, Colombia, suffered from the war-like violence perpetrated by drug cartels and other actors in the 1980s and 1990s. Thousan...

The chapters in this volume are selected from the best papers presented at the 10th Annual Consumer Culture Theory Conference held at the Universit...

The chapters in this volume have been selected from the best papers presented at the 9th Annual Consumer Culture Theory Conference held at the home...

The chapters in this volume have been selected from the best papers presented at the 8th Annual Consumer Culture Theory Conference held at the home...

It is a serious mistake to think that all we need for a just world is properly-structured organizations. But it is equally wrong to believe that al...

Children today are growing up in an increasingly commercialised world. But should we see them as victims of manipulative marketing, or as competent...

For all the political branding and rebranding of healthcare in the United States, its fundamental unit of currency remains the doctor-patient relat...

What factors are contributing to the continuing growth in consumption of goods and services? At what point do the costs associated with consumerism...

In Spaces for Consumption Steven Miles develops a penetrating critique of a key shift characterising the contemporary city. Theoretically informed,...

Jean Baudrillards classic text was one of the first to focus on the process and meaning of consumption in contemporary culture. Originally publishe...

The Unmanageable Consumer has long been one of my favorite books in the sociology of consumption. This long overdue third edition has updated and r...

Letting go to help your business grow is the apparent contradiction central to The Growth Paradox - and embracing it will lead to more profits, les...

Airbnb, gaming, escape rooms, major sporting events: contemporary capitalism no longer demands we merely consume things, but that we buy experience...