Consumption Products

By Victoria E. Collins, Dawn L. Rothe

This book examines the impact of neoliberalism on society, bringing to the forefront a discussion of violence and harm, the inherent inequalities of neoliberalism and the ways in which our everyday lives in the Global North reproduce and facilitate this violence and harm.Drawing on a range of…

Paperback – 2019-09-01 
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By Dario Kenner

This book studies the role that the richest people’s personal consumption plays in contributing to climate change and biodiversity loss, and it explores strategies for reducing the personal carbon footprint of High Net Worth Individuals (HNWIs) in the main countries they live in: United States,…

Hardback – 2019-07-31 
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Routledge Focus on Environment and Sustainability

Edited by Jenny Banh, Haiming Liu

This book examines the lived experiences of what it is like to work in an American Chinese restaurant, exploring the relationship between food and society. The book explores questions of geography, locality, transnationalism and ethnicity, and how these connect identities and shape changes. It…

Paperback – 2019-07-19 
Routledge

Edited by Susan Dobscha

Death has never been more visible to consumers. From life insurance to burial plots to estate planning, we are constantly reminded of consumer choices to be made with our mortality in mind. Religious beliefs in the afterlife (or their absence) impact everyday consumption activities. Death in a…

Paperback – 2019-06-06 
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Edited by Aliakbar Jafari, Özlem Sandikci

In recent years, a critically oriented sub-stream of research on Muslim consumers and businesses has begun to emerge. This scholarship, located both within and outside the marketing field, adopts a socio-culturally situated approach to Islam and investigates the complex and multifaceted…

Paperback – 2019-06-06 
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By Pietro Lanzini

There is broad consensus on the need to shift to a new paradigm of lifestyles and economic development, given the un-sustainability of current patterns. Given this, research on consumer behavior is to play a crucial role in shedding light on the motives underpinning the adoption of responsible…

Paperback – 2019-04-25 
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Edited by Cindy Isenhour, Mari Martiskainen, Lucie Middlemiss

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 – 2019-03-20
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Routledge-SCORAI Studies in Sustainable Consumption

By Oliver Brooks

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 lower…

Hardback – 2019-02-19
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Critical Research in Football

Edited by Jennifer Smith Maguire

Policy-related, academic and populist accounts of the relationship between food and class tend to reproduce a dichotomy that privileges either middle-class discerning taste or working-class necessity. Taking a markedly different approach, this collection explores the classed cultures of food…

Paperback – 2019-02-14
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Edited by Arve Hansen, Kenneth Bo Nielsen

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 – 2019-02-04
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Routledge Studies in Transport, Environment and Development

By Rachel Wood

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 – 2019-01-17
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Sexualities in Society

Edited by Maurie J Cohen, Halina Szejnwald Brown, Philip J Vergragt

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 – 2019-01-08
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