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Managing Overflow in Affluent Societies book cover

1st Edition

Managing Overflow in Affluent Societies

Edited By Barbara Czarniawska, Orvar Löfgren Copyright 2012
200 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

198 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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“It is simply too much” is a common complaint of the modern age. This book looks at how people and institutions deal with overflow - of information, consumption or choices. The essays explore the ways in which notions of overflow – framed in terms of excess and abundance or their implicit opposites, scarcity and dearth – crop up in a number of contexts such as sociological and economic... Read more

1. The Inherited Theories of Overflow and Their Challengers  Orvar Löfgren and Barbara Czarniawska  2. Pompes Funèbres and the Overflowing of Ostentatious Funerals  Pascale Trompette  3. News Agencies: The Places Where Information Permanently Overflows  Barbara Czarniawska  4: "In Datamatrix Veritas"? Managing Wine Flow and Information Overflow with a Two-Dimensional Barcode  Franck Cochoy  5. Book Reviewing For Amazon.Com: How Socio-Technical Systems Struggle to Make Less from More  Trevor Pinch  6. Scenes from a Marriage: Regulating Flows Between Work and Home  Gideon Kunda  7. It’s Simply Too Much! Coping with Domestic Overflow  Orvar Löfgren  8. Cozy Friday: An Analysis of Family Togetherness and Ritual Overconsumption  Helene Brembeck  9. Waste in Overflow  Lynn Åkesson  10. Afterword: Keep Calm and Carry On? The Economic History of Overflow  Deirdre Nansen McCloskey

Biography

Orvar Löfgren is Professor Emeritus of European Ethnology at Lund University, Sweden.

Barbara Czarniawska is Professor of Management Studies at GRI, School of Business, Economics and Law at University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

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