Magnus Boström

The Social Life of Unsustainable Mass Consumption

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores and explains unsustainable mass consumption in affluent contexts by stressing the social nature of consumption.

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Produktdetails

• Environment and Society
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 557g
• ISBN-13: 9781666902440
• ISBN-10: 1666902446
• Artikelnr.: 68400875

Autorenporträt

By Magnus Boström

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
List of Figures
Introduction: The Social Roots of Ecologically Destructive Consumerism
Chapter 1: Social Relations, Everyday Rituals, and Consumerism
Chapter 2: Social Comparison and Consumerism in Stratified Social Life
Chapter 3: The Temporalities of Mass Consumption in Social Life: A Lost
Future
Chapter 4: Sites of Consumption: The Home, The Mall, The Internet
Chapter 5: The Social Stock of (Not) Knowing: Normalization and Ignorance
of Unsustainable Mass Consumption
Conclusion: A Collective Detox from Consumerism
Afterword
References
About the Author