Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 426 g
Reihe: Consumption and Public Life
Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 426 g
Reihe: Consumption and Public Life
ISBN: 978-0-230-55346-0
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK
This book provides a timely forum for current thinking on consumption and citizenship, exploring overlaps and tensions between them. Experts from history, theory, media studies, law, and civil society, retrieve alternative traditions of consumption and citizenship in West and East, and evaluate the civic prospects of consumption for the future.
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List of Illustrations List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: K.Soper & F.Trentmann PART 1: RETRIEVAL Civic Choices: Retrieving Perspectives on Rationality, Consumption, and Citizenship; M.Bevir & F.Trentmann Consumption and Politics in Twentieth-Century China; K.Gerth Sartorial Manoeuvres in the Dusk: Blue Jeans in Socialist Hungary; F.Hammer PART 2: TALK AND ACTION Consuming without Paying: Stealing or Campaigning? The Civic Implications of Civil Disobedience around Access to Water; B.Morgan The Banality of Consumption; M.Hilton 'Public Connection' and the Uncertain Norms of Media Consumption; N.Couldry, S.Livingstone & T.Markham The Moral Force of Consumption and Capitalism: Anti-Slavery and Anti-Sweatshop; M.Micheletti PART 3: PROSPECTS Exit Homo Politicus, Enter Homo Consumens; Z.Bauman Consumer Citizenship in Post-national Constellations?; M.Everson & C.Joerges Sustainability, Well-being and Consumption: The Limits of Hedonic Approaches; J.O'Neill 'Alternative Hedonism' and the Citizen-Consumer; K.Soper Index