Consumption Products

Edited by Cindy Isenhour, Mari Martiskainen, Lucie Middlemiss

Hardback – 2019-03-31 
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Routledge-SCORAI Studies in Sustainable Consumption

By Ann Brooks

Hardback – 2019-03-31 
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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…

Hardback – 2019-02-18 
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Critical Research in Football

By Emma Felton

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 twentieth century. What is the appeal of the café for…

Paperback – 2018-12-20 
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Edited by Michelle Phillipov, Katherine Kirkwood

Media interest in food has intensified in recent years, leading to a contemporary food landscape where ‘alternative’ food practices are increasingly visible. Environmental concerns, that were once exclusively the concern of activist movements, are now central to primetime television cooking shows,…

Hardback – 2018-12-19 
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Critical Food Studies

By Robert van Krieken

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 – 2018-12-10 
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Edited by Jon Stobart, Vicki Howard

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 – 2018-11-20 
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Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting

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 – 2018-11-05 
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Routledge Studies in Transport, Environment and Development

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 – 2018-11-02 
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By Deron Boyles

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 
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Routledge Library Editions: Higher Education

Edited by Andrew Linzey, Clair Linzey

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 – 2018-10-30 
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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 – 2018-09-14
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