Paterson, Mark.

Consumption and everyday life / Mark Paterson. - 2nd ed. - New York: Routledge, 2018. - xi, 335 p.

Includes bibliographical references.

We are all consumers1. How We Became Consumers: Theories of Consumption
2. You Are What You Buy? Consumption and Identity
3. Globalization and McDisneyfication: Producing the Global Consumer
4. Bodyshopping: The Commodification of Experience and Sensation
5. Nature, Inc.
6. The 'Knowing' Consumer: The Science of Shopping and the Arts of Appropriation
7. Cathedrals, Palaces, and Paradises: Modernity and the Spaces of Consumption
8. Malls as Everyday Sites of Spectacle and Enchantment
9. 'Just Do It': The Poetics and Politics of Brands and Logos
10. The Ethics of ConsumptionBibliography Key Terms Questions for Discussion

9781138959323


Consumer behavior--Social aspects.
Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects.

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