The SAGE Handbook of Consumer Culture by Olga Kravets

The SAGE Handbook of Consumer Culture by Olga Kravets

The SAGE Handbook ofConsumerCultureis a one-stop resource for scholars and students of consumption, where the key dimensions of consumer culture are critically discussed and articulated.

A thorough and comprehensive guide filled with insightful and up to date articles written by foremost expertsThis belongs on the bookshelves of researchers and practitioners, indeed anyone with an interest in the consumer culture that dominates the world. -- Richard Wilk
Two of the most important elements of this volume are a) the truly diverse approaches to the study of consumer culture at the global level, and b) the rich bibliographies provided by each of the chapters. The authors come from around the world, teaching at institutions in at least 10 different countries, in a variety of disciplines. Academic libraries with programs in any or all of the disciplines mentioned in the book [business, psychology and sociology, geography and politics] should consider adding this volume to their collections. -- Mark Schumacher
This Consumer Culture Handbook is an exciting, useful and frankly valiant overview of the intensely multidisciplinary field that consumer culture studies have become. It will provide an excellent vantage point from which to make sense of this dynamic field.
-- Don Slater

The Sage Handbook of Consumer Culture provides a remarkably comprehensive treatment of how this controversial, contested, and consequential intersection of consumption, the market, and culture is conceptualized and investigated across diverse intellectual fields. More than just a review, each chapter recognizes past influences while articulating cutting edge ideas, new analytic tools, and anticipating future directories. The Sage Handbook of Consumer Culture allows for a ready and intellectually enriching comparison of how the complexities of consumer culture are addresses across the spheres of sociology, anthropology, history, media studies, material studies and business/marketing. In its grand finale, this collection offers a series of integrative, interdisciplinary studies that explore how forces of neoliberalism, consumer activism, discourses of sustainability, and nationalism are inflected through the marketized prism of consumer culture, generating a nexus of political and societal effects. The Sage Handbook of Consumer Culture is essential reading for anyone seeking a fuller understanding of this interdisciplinary and dynamic sphere of inquiry.         

 

-- Craig Thompson

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ISBN 13	9781473929517
ISBN 10	1473929512
Title	The SAGE Handbook of Consumer Culture
Author	Olga Kravets
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Sage Publications Ltd
Year published	2018-02-05
Number of pages	576
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