
Citizenship and Consumption
F. Trentmann(Editor)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 14. December 2007
Book
Hardback
XII, 242 pages
978-0-230-55346-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book provides a timely forum for current thinking on consumption and citizenship, exploring overlaps and tensions between them. Experts from history, theory, media studies, law, and civil society, retrieve alternative traditions of consumption and citizenship in West and East, and evaluate the civic prospects of consumption for the future.
Reviews / Votes
'...provides a forum for current thinking on consumption and citizenship, exploring overlaps, interactions, and tensions between them.' - Journal of Consumer Policy
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Series
Edition
2007 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
XII, 242 p.
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
426 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-230-55346-0 (9780230553460)
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Kate Soper | Frank Trentmann | F. Trentmann
Citizenship and Consumption
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01/2014
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€117.69
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Person
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN is Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Leeds University, UK
MARK BEVIR is Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, USA
NICK COULDRY is Professor of Media and Communications and Culture, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
MICHELLE EVERSON is Professor of Law, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
KARL GERTH is a University Lecturer in Modern Chinese History, Oxford University and Fellow of Merton College, UK
FERENC HAMMER is Assistant Professor, Institute for Art Theory and Media Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
MATTHEW HILTON is Professor of Social History, University of Birmingham, UK
CHRISTIAN JOERGES is Professor of Economic Law, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
SONIA LIVINGSTONE is Professor, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics, UK
TIM MARKHAM is a Lecturer in Media (Journalism), Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
MICHELE MICHELETTI is Professor of Political Science, Karlstad University, Sweden
BRONWEN MORGAN is Professor of Sociolegal Studies, University of Bristol, UK
JOHN O'NEILL is Professor of Political Economy, Manchester University, UK
Content
List of Illustrations List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: K.Soper & F.Trentmann PART 1: RETRIEVAL Civic Choices: Retrieving Perspectives on Rationality, Consumption, and Citizenship; M.Bevir & F.Trentmann Consumption and Politics in Twentieth-Century China; K.Gerth Sartorial Manoeuvres in the Dusk: Blue Jeans in Socialist Hungary; F.Hammer PART 2: TALK AND ACTION Consuming without Paying: Stealing or Campaigning? The Civic Implications of Civil Disobedience around Access to Water; B.Morgan The Banality of Consumption; M.Hilton 'Public Connection' and the Uncertain Norms of Media Consumption; N.Couldry, S.Livingstone & T.Markham The Moral Force of Consumption and Capitalism: Anti-Slavery and Anti-Sweatshop; M.Micheletti PART 3: PROSPECTS Exit Homo Politicus , Enter Homo Consumens ; Z.Bauman Consumer Citizenship in Post-national Constellations?; M.Everson & C.Joerges Sustainability, Well-being and Consumption: The Limits of Hedonic Approaches; J.O'Neill 'Alternative Hedonism' and the Citizen-Consumer; K.Soper Index