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The experience of taste is significantly shaped by complex combinations of material, sensual and symbolic atmospheres and situations. This book provides an international exploration of how the temporal and sensual nature of space, place and mobility affects taste – how design, association, light…
Hardback – 2019-04-30
Routledge
Routledge Research in Culture, Space and Identity
Hardback – 2019-03-31
Routledge
With growing awareness of environmental deterioration, atmospheric pollution and resource depletion, the last several decades have brought increased attention and scrutiny to global consumption levels. However, there are significant and well documented limitations associated with current efforts to…
Hardback – 2019-03-21
Routledge
Routledge-SCORAI Studies in Sustainable Consumption
Consumer Sexualities explores women’s experiences of shopping in ‘sex shops’ and using sexual commodities in their everyday lives. This enlightening volume shows how women take up sexual consumer ‘technologies of the self’ to work upon and understand themselves as confident and active sexual agents…
Paperback – 2019-03-06
Routledge
Modern football is an industry and capitalism is its engine. However, this book argues for a more nuanced understanding of contemporary football culture and the (self-) identity of football fans. Drawing on original ethnographic research conducted with fans at all levels, from international to…
Hardback – 2019-02-18
Routledge
Critical Research in Football
Cars, Automobility and Development in Asia explores the nexus between automobility and development in a pan-Asian comparative perspective. The book seeks to integrate the policies, production forms, consumption preferences and symbolism implicated in emerging Asian automobilities. Using empirically…
Paperback – 2018-12-19
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Transport, Environment and Development
Consumer society is an unquestionably complex social construct. However, after decades of unremitting dominance there are signs emerging that it is starting to falter, both as a coherent and durable system of social organization and as a strategy for societal advancement. Debates concerning how we…
Paperback – 2018-12-19
Routledge
Café culture is flourishing in cities across the world. From London to Seoul, Melbourne to Shanghai and many cities in between, people are flocking to cafés. A recent phenomenon, café culture has made its reappearance only since the end of the 20th century. What is the appeal of the café for urban…
Paperback – 2018-12-17
Routledge
Media interest in food has intensified in recent years, leading to a contemporary food landscape where ‘alternative’ food practices are increasingly visible. Concerns that were once exclusively the domain of activist movements motivated by environmental, animal rights, health and anti-corporate…
Hardback – 2018-12-11
Routledge
Critical Food Studies
Retail history is a rich, cross-disciplinary field that demonstrates the centrality of retailing to many aspects of human experience, from the provisioning of everyday goods to the shaping of urban environments; from earning a living to the construction of identity. Over the last few decades,…
Hardback – 2018-11-29
Routledge
Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting
On television and in films, in magazines and books, on the Internet and in the realm of politics, celebrities of all sorts seem to dominate our attention. Celebrity Society: The Struggle for Attention brings new perspectives to our understanding of how the figure of ‘the celebrity’ is bound up with…
Paperback – 2018-11-28
Routledge
The protest against meat eating may turn out to be one of the most significant movements of our age. In terms of our relations with animals, it is difficult to think of a more urgent moral problem than the fate of billions of animals killed every year for human consumption. This book…
Paperback – 2018-10-26
Routledge