Télécharger le livre :  Consumption and Vietnam's New Middle Classes

This book studies the dramatic changes in consumption patterns in Vietnam over the past decades, combining a focus on everyday practices and societal transformations. Zooming in on the new urban middle classes, and through in-depth case studies in the realms of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-11-01
Collection : Consumption and Public Life
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Télécharger le livre :  Food, Social Change and Identity

Unlike food publications that have been more organized along regional or disciplinary lines, this edited volume is distinctive in that it brings together anthropologists, archaeologists, area study specialists, linguists and food policy administrators to explore the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-12-14
Collection : Consumption and Public Life
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Télécharger le livre :  Consumption and Consumer Society

This collection of high quality, largely previously published essays, analyses a range of controversies in the field of the sociology of culture and consumption. Campbell made a major contribution to the development of this field and he has a clear and coherent...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-11-15
Collection : Consumption and Public Life
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Télécharger le livre :  Domesticity on Display

This book examines postsocialist transformations reflected in urban middle-class domestic spaces and in museums dedicated to socialism in Romania. It focuses on the significance and circulation of porcelain and crystal sets and ornaments during late socialism and after...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-10-23
Collection : Consumption and Public Life
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Télécharger le livre :  Consumer Nationalism and Barr's Irn-Bru in Scotland

This book connects a detailed analysis of Irn-Bru’s brand identity over time to theories of national identity, consumer studies, and banal nationalism. It situates the commercial history of Barr’s Irn-Bru in a transnational context and shows how Irn-Bru has become a...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-10-01
Collection : Consumption and Public Life
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Télécharger le livre :  Time, Consumption and the Coordination of Everyday Life

Time pressure, speed and the desire for instant consumption pervade accounts of contemporary lives. Why is it that people feel pressed for time, in what ways have societies changed to create this condition, and with what implications?   This book examines...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-08-17
Collection : Consumption and Public Life
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Télécharger le livre :  Italians and Food

This book is a novel and original collection of essays on Italians and food. Food culture is central both to the way Italians perceive their national identity and to the consolidation of Italianicity in global context. More broadly, being so heavily symbolically...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-05-18
Collection : Consumption and Public Life
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Télécharger le livre :  The Sovereign Consumer

This book presents a new intellectual history of neoliberalism through the exploration of the sovereign consumer. Invented by neoliberal thinkers in the interwar period, this figure has been crucial to the construction and legimitization of neoliberal ideology and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-08-25
Collection : Consumption and Public Life
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Télécharger le livre :  Aesthetico-Cultural Cosmopolitanism and French Youth

By examining cultural consumption, tastes and imaginaries as a means of relating to the world, this book describes the effects of globalization on young people from an aesthetic and cultural perspective. It employs the concept of aesthetico-cultural cosmopolitanism to...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-01-28
Collection : Consumption and Public Life
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Télécharger le livre :  Consumption

This book critically reviews recent social scientific investigations of consumption, a controversial topic with moral overtones, and of popular public interest and political and economic significance. The author explores how consumption affects personal identity and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-11-29
Collection : Consumption and Public Life
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Télécharger le livre :  Media Consumption and Public Engagement

Democracy is based on the belief that the media gets the attention of voters. But is this plausible in an age of multiplying media, disillusionment with the political system and time-scarcity? This book addresses this question, and charts experiences of 'public...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-01-12
Collection : Consumption and Public Life
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Télécharger le livre :  Food Consumption in Global Perspective

With studies of China, India, West Africa, South America and Europe, this book provides a global perspective on food consumption in the modern world. Combing ethnographic, historical and comparative analyses, the volume celebrates the contributions of Jack Goody to the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-07-23
Collection : Consumption and Public Life
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Télécharger le livre :  Consumption Norms and Everyday Ethics

How much is acceptable to consume? What is appropriate to consume and which goods fall into the disapproved category? Answers to these questions vary widely across time and space. This book examines the sources of this variation by providing an account of how everyday...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-03-11
Collection : Consumption and Public Life
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Télécharger le livre :  Smart Energy Technologies in Everyday Life

This book interrogates the global utopian vision for smart energy technologies and the new energy consumer intended to realise it. It enriches and extends the possibilities of four residential smart strategies: energy feedback, dynamic pricing, home automation and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-09-25
Collection : Consumption and Public Life
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Télécharger le livre :  Coffee Activism and the Politics of Fair Trade and Ethical Consumption in the Global North

This book explores the politics borne of consumption through the case of coffee activism and ethical consumption. It analyses the agencies, structures, repertoires and technologies of promotion and participation in the politics of fair trade consumption through an...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-08-22
Collection : Consumption and Public Life
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Télécharger le livre :  Culture of the Slow

Across the world, there has been a growing dissatisfaction with the tempo of modern life. Described simply as the 'slow phenomenon', this volume explores this new brand of living that entails not simply slowing down but an embracing of alternative activities that...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-04-23
Collection : Consumption and Public Life
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Télécharger le livre :  Fair Trade and the Citizen-Consumer

As sales of fair-trade goods explode across the globe, Fair Trade and the Citizen-Consumer provides a timely analysis of the organizations, institutions and grassroots networks behind this growing movement. Drawing on examples from the UK, Sweden and USA, this book...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-10-23
Collection : Consumption and Public Life
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Télécharger le livre :  Multinational Retailers and Consumers in China

This book investigates the transfer of parent country organizational practices by the retailers to their Chinese subsidiaries, providing insights into employment relations in multinational retail firms and changing labour-management systems in China, as well as their...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-07-12
Collection : Consumption and Public Life
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Télécharger le livre :  Religion, Consumerism and Sustainability

To varying degrees, classic religions are associated with critique of materialistic values. Onto this opposition of the market and the temple other binaries have been grafted, so that 'North' and the 'West' are portrayed as secular and materialistic, 'South' and 'East'...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-12-14
Collection : Consumption and Public Life
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Télécharger le livre :  Globesity, Food Marketing and Family Lifestyles

This book examines the public controversies surrounding lifestyle risks in the consumer society. Comparing news coverage of the 'globesity' pandemic in Britain and the USA, it illustrates the way moral panic brought children's food marketing to the centre of the policy...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-12-08
Collection : Consumption and Public Life
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