Cultural Studies and Anti-Consumerism (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Binkley, Sam; Littler, Jo

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This work investigates a wide range of anti-consumerist practices - including protests against sweatshops, fair trade, ethical consumption and downshifting - from a variety of perspectives within and around cultural studies.

It was published as a special issue of Cultural Studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317984986
• Artikelnr.: 58397764

Autorenporträt

Sam Binkley is Associate Professor of Sociology at Emerson College, USA. He is author of Getting Loose: Lifestyle Consumption in the 1970s (2007) and is currently working on a book on neoliberalism and happiness. Jo Littler is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Middlesex University, UK. She is co-editor (with Roshi Naidoo) of The Politics of Heritage: The Legacies of 'Race' (2005) and author of Radical Consumption? Shopping for Change in Contemporary Culture (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Cultural Studies and Anti-Consumerism: A Critical
Encounter Jo Littler and Sam Binkley 2. Young Women and Consumer Culture:
An Intervention Angela McRobbie 3. Against the commodification of
everything: Anti-consumerist cultural studies in the age of ecological
crisis Jeremy Gilbert 4. 'Alternative Hedonism, Cultural Theory and the
Role of Aesthetic Revisioning' Kate Soper 5. Tackling Turbo Consumption: An
interview Juliet Schor and Jo Littler 6. Liquid Consumption:
Anti-Consumerism and the Fetishized De-Fetishization of Commodities Sam
Binkley 7. The elusive subjects of neoliberalism: Beyond the analytics of
governmentality Clive Barnett, Nick Clarke, Paul Cloke and Alice Malpass
8. Consuming the Campesino: Fair Trade Marketing between Recognition and
Romantic Commodification Matthias Zick Varul 9. Alternative realities:
downshifting narratives in contemporary lifestyle television Lyn Thomas
10. Fourth worlds and neo-Fordism: American Apparel and the cultural
economy of consumer anxiety Jo Littler and Liz Moor 11. Consuming
Authenticity: From Outposts of Difference to Means of Exclusion Sharon
Zukin 12. Fashioning Social Justice through Political Consumerism,
Capitalism, and the Internet Michele Micheletti and Dietlind Stolle 13. The
Quandaries of Consumer-Based Labor Activism: A Low-Wage Case Study Andrew
Ross