Consumption Products

Edited by Jon Stobart, Vicki Howard

Retailing has attracted increasing cross-disciplinary interest over the last few decades, reflecting the importance of retailing and the breadth of spaces, practices and people influenced by it. Ttraditional narratives of retailing are now regarded as too simplistic and too Euro-centric.…

Hardback – 2018-09-30 
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Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting

By Gerda Reith

In this engaging new book Gerda Reith explores key theoretical concepts in the sociology of consumption. Drawing on the ideas of Foucault, Marx and Bataille, amongst others, she investigates the ways that understandings of ‘the problems of consumption’ change over time, and asks what these changes…

Paperback – 2018-08-23 
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By Richard Wilk, Shingo Hamada

Seafood　draws on controversial themes in the interdisciplinary field of food studies, with case studies from different eras and geographic regions. Using familiar commodities, this accessible book will help students understand cutting-edge issues in sustainability and ask readers to think about the…

Paperback – 2018-08-15 
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Routledge Series for Creative Teaching and Learning in Anthropology

By Carrie Yodanis

Getting Dressed introduces students to sociological concepts via the everyday decision of what to wear. Everyone has to get dressed. And what we wear creates our identity – how people define us and how we define ourselves. But getting dressed is not based on our individual choices and tastes alone.…

Paperback – 2018-08-15 
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Edited by Robert Crocker, Keri Chiveralls

There is now a widespread interest in reuse in many domains, from opera houses built over old warehouses, to vintage clothes and everyday goods incorporating repurposed materials or parts. Despite its ubiquity, this extensive creative work is typically seen in narrowly environmental terms, as a…

Hardback – 2018-07-20 
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Antinomies

By Johs. Hjellbrekke

Multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) is a statistical technique that first and foremost has become known through the work of the late Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002). This book will introduce readers to the fundamental properties, procedures and rules of interpretation of the most commonly used forms…

Paperback – 2018-07-06 
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By Mark Davis

This book is arguably the definitive guide to understanding consumerism as a way of life in the twenty-first century. In his original and accessible introduction to the field, Mark Davis takes the reader on a tour of major theories of consumerism to show how they each offer enlightenment in our…

Paperback – 2018-06-30 
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Edited by Jeffrey R Di Leo, Peter Hitchcock, Sophia A McClennen

This collection of essays, by some of the most distinguished public intellectuals and cultural critics in America explores various dimensions of what it means live in the age of debt. They ask, what is the debt age? For that matter, what is debt? Is its meaning transhistorical or transcultural? Or…

Paperback – 2018-06-27 
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By Lucie Middlemiss

Sustainable Consumption: Key Issues provides a concise introduction to the field of sustainable consumption, outlining the contribution of the key disciplines in this multi-disciplinary area, and detailing the way in which both the problem and the potential for solutions are understood. Divided…

Paperback – 2018-06-18 
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Key Issues in Environment and Sustainability

Edited by Frederick Luis Aldama

The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sex and Latin American Culture is the first comprehensive volume to explore the intersections between gender, sexuality, and the creation, consumption, and interpretation of popular culture in the Américas. The chapters seek to enrich our understanding of the…

Hardback – 2018-06-14 
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Routledge Companions to Gender

By Minoo Moallem

Persian Carpets: the Nation As a Transnational Commodity tracks the Persian carpet as an exotic and mythological object, as a commodity, and as an image from mid-nineteenth-century England to contemporary Iran and the Iranian diaspora. Following the journey of this single object, the book brings…

Paperback – 2018-05-30 
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Routledge Series for Creative Teaching and Learning in Anthropology

By Brian Field

Edited by Bryan Macgregor

Originally published in 1987, Forecasting Techniques for Urban and Regional Planning is an introduction to the various analytical techniques which have been developed and applied in urban and regional analysis in planning practice. The subjects covered are population, housing, employment, transport…

Hardback – 2018-05-25 
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Routledge Library Editions: Urban Planning