Gebundenes Buch

Consuming Happiness

Aspirational Practices in Global Perspective

Herausgeber: Iqani, Mehita

Beschreibung

This book offers a collection of scholarly writing on the meanings of happiness in relation to consumption. The chapters in this volume explore how material practices link to structures of power and exploitation. The chapters in this book were originally published in Consumption Markets & Culture.

Autor

Mehita Iqani is South African Research Chair in Science Communication at Stellenbosch University. Her current research focusses on the links between consumer society, quality of life (happiness), and environmental and planetary sustainability. She is the author and editor of several books on media, consumer culture, luxury, waste, and the global south, the most recent of which include Garbage in Popular Culture (2021), Consumption Media and the Global South (2016), Media Studies: Critical African and Decolonial Approaches (2019), and African Luxury (2019).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 126
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9781032488264
• ISBN-10: 1032488263
• Artikelnr.: 67680978