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Hardback – 2018-11-30
Routledge
This book explores the multifaceted relationship between food and food-practices, media and representations, and the politics of production and consumption. It examines the media spaces where the power and problems of Big Food are contested, and simultaneously explore the ways that Big Food has…
Hardback – 2018-11-30
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 – 2018-11-08
Routledge
Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting
Originally published in 1998, American Education and Corporations, provides a detailed study of the effects of commercialisation on the public school system. The book provides a powerful indictment of corporate culture and its influence on American public schooling, within a clear theoretical…
Hardback – 2018-10-31
Routledge
Routledge Library Editions: Higher Education
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 – 2018-09-17
Routledge
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 – 2018-09-14
Routledge
Mediating Sexual Citizenship considers how the neoliberal imperatives of adaptation, improvement and transformation that inform the shifting artistic and industrial landscape of television are increasingly indexed to performed disruptions in the norms of sexuality and gender. Drawing on examples…
Paperback – 2018-08-20
Routledge
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
Routledge
Routledge Series for Creative Teaching and Learning in Anthropology
Culture pervades consumption and marketing activity in ways that potentially benefit marketing managers. Marketing Management: A Cultural Perspective provides a comprehensive account of cultural knowledge and skills useful in strategic marketing management. In making these cultural concepts and…
Paperback – 2018-07-30
Routledge
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
Routledge
Antinomies
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
Routledge
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 – 2018-06-27
Routledge