Steven Miles

Retail and the Artifice of Social Change (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Retail has an increasingly powerful impact on our everyday experience of the world. In Retail and Social Change, Steven Miles interrogates the changing role of retail, in its material and virtual forms, as a lens through which we can understand what it means to be a citizen of a consumer society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317691747
• Artikelnr.: 44169910

Autorenporträt

Steven Miles is Professor of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is the author of Consumerism as a Way of Life (1998, Sage), Youth Lifestyles in a Changing World (2000) (OUP), Social Theory in the Real World (2002, Sage) and, Spaces for Consumption: Pleasure and Placelessness in the Post-Industrial City (2010, Sage). Steven is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Consumer Culture.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. The Individualised Consumer 3. Shopping for Identity 4.
Whatever Happened to the City? 5. The Supermarket 6. Out-of-Town Retail 7.
Experiential Retail 8. Tourism and Authenticity 9. Retail Online 10.
Conclusion: The Artifice of Social Change