Introduction: What is Consumer Culture?
1. Material Culture and Consumer Culture
2. Exchanging Things: The Economy and Culture
3. Objects, Subjects and Signs
4. Capital, Class and Consumer Culture
5. Circuits of Culture and Economy: Gender, Race and
Reflexivity
6. Brands: Markets, Media and Movement
7. Consuming Ethics, or What Goes Around, Comes Around
8. Consumer Culture, Identity and Politics: When Are You (Not) a
Consumer?
Bibliography
Index
CELIA LURY is a professor of sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London.
"In a now vast literature Celia Lury's new edition stands out for
its clarity and critical intelligence. In addition to offering a
guide through the thicket of new and old approaches, this book
provides readers with a map to explore how consumption shapes
personal and group identities."
*Birkbeck College, Director of the Cultures of Consumption Research
Programme 200*
"Consumer Culture is a gem of a book. Celia Lury writes with
insight, timeliness, and a thorough mastery of the subject. The
general reader, the scholar, and the student will read Consumer
Culture with the disturbing kind of satisfaction that comes from
learning just how deeply consumerism has become a way of life."
*Wesleyan University*
"Consumer culture is everywhere but we rarely see it. In second
revised edition, Celia Lury takes a number of vivid scenes from our
daily lives and provides helpful cultural grounding for questioning
our ordinary experiences as consumers. Well organized and well
written, the book provides an articulated picture of an
increasingly fundamental aspect of contemporary cultures, stressing
the role that ethics, subjectivity and difference have in shaping
what consumer culture is today. Offering theoretical definitions
and practical examples, this is a user-friendly book which will
attract many readers and help them through the predicament of
consumer choice and its increasingly relevant symbolic centrality
for subjectivity constitution."
*University of Milan*
"A concise yet theoretically dense overview of the main issues that
scholars and researchers of consumer culture will be focusing on
for years to come. Essential."
*Choice*
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