Time, Consumption and Everyday Life Time, Consumption and Everyday Life
Cultures of Consumption

Time, Consumption and Everyday Life

Practice, Materiality and Culture

Elizabeth Shove and Others
    • 42,99 €
    • 42,99 €

Publisher Description

Has material civilization spun out of control, becoming too fast for our own well-being and that of the planet? This book confronts these anxieties and examines the changing rhythms and temporal organization of everyday life. How do people handle hurriedness, burn-out and stress? Are slower forms of consumption viable? This volume brings together international experts from geography, sociology, history, anthropology and philosophy. In case studies covering the United States, Asia and Europe, contributors follow routines and rhythms, their emotional and political dynamics and show how they are anchored in material culture and everyday practice. Running themes of the book are questions of coordination and disruption; cycles and seasons; and the interplay between power and freedom, and between material and natural forces. The result is a volume that brings studies of practice, temporality and material culture together to open up a new intellectual agenda.

GENRE
Non-Fiction
RELEASED
2020
7 June
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
250
Pages
PUBLISHER
Taylor & Francis
SIZE
2.2
MB
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