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Taylor & Francis Ltd Gender and Consumption
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Expert Consumer Associations and
Book SynopsisRecent work has focused on the politics of consumption and its manifestation in a number of situations. This volume extends these debates, providing a tighter focus and contributing to a noticeable gap in the field that numerous scholars are beginning to turn towards: that is, organizations of consumers themselves who have chosen to speak for all consumers and similar such bodies of experts which act on behalf of consumers. The volume is fortunate in drawing upon a number of scholars who are about to publish major works on the subject, but who are happy to provide summary versions of their work for the volume. The book pays particular attention to specific moments in consumer mobilization and expertise, capturing the range of types of expert consumers across the twentieth century, from ethical consumer groups at the beginning, to intellectuals, housewives, economists and public officials. It addresses questions on the nature of consumer organizing, which bodies can speak for consumerTrade Review’Drawing substantially on primary research, the book provides a tantalizing insight into multiplicity of forms of consumer representation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...’ Journal of Design History ’The Expert Consumer is a valuable book that should be of particular interest to American readers who want to learn about developments in Western Europe.’ Business History ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Introduction, Alain Chatriot, Marie-Emmanuelle Chessel and Matthew Hilton. Part 1 Early Consumer Activism: 'Through the medium of their pockets': sabbatarianism, free produce, non-intercourse and the significance of 'early modern' consumer activism, Lawrence B. Glickman; The moral expertise of the British consumer, c. 1900: a debate between the Christian Social Union and the Webbs, Julien Vincent; Consumers' leagues in France: a transatlantic perspective, Marie-Emmanuelle Chessel. Part 2 Consumer Expertise in War and Peace: Educating consumers, representing consumers: reforming the marketplace through scientific expertise at the Bureau of Home Economics, United States Department of Agriculture, 1923-40, Carolyn M. Goldstein; The enemy within: food, nutrition experts and consumers in French-speaking Switzerland, 1900-46, Joëlle Droux; Shopping for an 'economic miracle': gendered politics of consumer citizenship in divided Germany, Katherine Pence. Part 3 Consumers in the Society of Consumption: Consumers' Associations and the state: protection and defence of the consumer in France, 1950-2000, Alain Chatriot; Shopping for the 'people's home': consumer planning in Norway and Sweden after the Second World War, Iselin Theien; The entrepreneurial ethic and the spirit of consumerism: finances and strategy in the US consumer movement, Robert N. Mayer; Living in the city differently: the birth of new expertise in France in the 1960s and 1970s, Odile Join-Lambert and Yves Lochard; The organised consumer movement since 1945, Matthew Hilton. Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Bank Merger Wave The Economic Causes and Social Consequences of Financial Consolidation The Economic Causes and Social Consequences of Financial Issues in Money Banking Finance
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Consumer Economics A Practical Overview A Practical Overview
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Consumer Economics A Practical Overview
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Taylor & Francis Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran Interior Revolutions of the Modern Era Iranian Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Green Consumption in China
Book SynopsisBased on theories discussion, policy analysis, and case studies, this title examines green consumption in China from both the macro level of policy evolution and the micro level of community participation and implementation.Drawing on the theories of sustainable development, ecological philosophy, environmental economics, consumer psychology and behavior, and community participation, this book approaches the issues of green consumption in China from the legislative and administrative aspects and economic and information means. In looking into the cases of Shenzhen and Beijing, the book unravels the implementation and development of green consumption at the community level in terms of community participation and people's awareness of the issue. Combining global experiences and local empirical studies, it discusses the concepts, evolution, and influencing factors of green consumption. It focuses on China''s policy and practice, as well as the institutional hindrance and policy Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Theoretical Basics Related to Green Consumption 3. International Policies on Green Consumption and Their Practices 4. China’s Policies on Green Consumption and its Evolution 5. Practices of Green Consumption in China’s Communities 6. Outlook of the Development of Green Consumption in China
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sustainable Consumption
Book SynopsisSustainable 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 into three parts, the book begins by introducing the concept of sustainable consumption, outlining the environmental impacts of current consumption trends, and placing these impacts in social context. The central section looks at six contrasting explanations of sustainable consumption in the public domain, detailing the stories that are told about why people act in the way they do. This section also explores the theory and evidence around each of these stories, linking them to a range of disciplines and approaches in the social sciences. The final section takes a broader look at the solutions proposed by sustainable consumption scholars and practitioners, outlining the Trade Review"Sustainable consumption is a grand challenge of our time, and this long-awaited textbook positively fizzes with clarity and curiosity, guaranteed to spark engagement and inspiration. Middlemiss expertly relates major real-world problems and solutions to our everyday lives, grounding complex debates in an accessible, no-nonsense style. She helps us think critically about the stories we tell ourselves, about how we will live in the future, and the political action we need to take us there. Unashamedly infused with a passion for social justice, this is essential reading for students and scholars of sustainable consumption." -- Gill Seyfang, Reader in Sustainable Consumption, University of East Anglia, UK"This innovative textbook in the growing field of sustainable consumption studies tackles questions of power, social equity and environmental limits, whilst it also considers different representations of consumption in relation to everyday life. Middlemiss grapples with big questions in a highly accessible and inviting manner. I look forward to putting the book to immediate use in my classroom." -- Marlyne Sahakian, founding member of SCORAI Europe, and Assistant Professor in Sociology, University of Geneva, Switzerland"This book marks a milestone in the evolution of research and policy practice on the unsustainability of contemporary consumption in many parts of the world. Students and others will benefit enormously from Middlemiss’ careful work to digest and make meaningful a Himalayan-sized expanse of material on an extremely significant, but thus far largely underappreciated, topic. The volume embodies impressive ambition and will propel to new heights readers who take its insights to heart." - Maurie J. Cohen, Professor of Sustainability Studies, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and co-founder of the Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative, USA"Middlemiss brings together the perspectives of a wide range of disciplines to frame an accessible picture of the academic landscape surrounding sustainable consumption – an evolving field. An excellent resource for anyone wishing to understand the role of consumption in the social, economic and environmental challenges of the modern world." -- Garrette E. Clark, Sustainable Lifestyles Programme Officer, UN Environment, France"This book provides a timely and highly needed textbook for classes on sustainable consumption across disciplines. Middlemiss does a wonderful job of highlighting the relevance of the topic, the enormous challenges involved, and, most importantly, the need to adopt systemic approaches if one seriously aims to solve the problems arising from our high-consumption lifestyles." – Doris Fuchs, Professor for International Relations and Sustainable Development, University of Münster, Germany"Middlemiss has given instructors and students an invaluable resource! Instructors will appreciate the use of concrete examples to make clear the complexity of sustainable consumption. Students will be grateful for the real-life illustrations that connect their own lives to large-scale sociological and cultural drivers of unsustainable resource use patterns." -- Emily Huddart Kennedy, Assistant Professor, Washington State University, USATable of ContentsList of figuresLit of ablesList of boxesForewordAcknowledgements Part 1: Introducing sustainable consumption Introduction Measuring sustainable consumption Sustainable consumption in social context Part 2: Explaining sustainable consumption 'People don’t understand' 'People are selfish' 'It’s all about values' 'The personal is political' 'We don’t have a choice' 'Consumption is meaningful!' Part 3: Visions of the future in sustainable consumption Production-consumption relations The solution is collective Sustainable consumption makes you happy! - co-authored with David Wingate Revolution or evolution? Conclusion: building images of the future
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ownership and Appropriation
Book SynopsisIn a world of finite resources, expanding populations and widening structural inequalities, the ownership of things is increasingly contested. Not only are the commons being rapidly enclosed and privatized, but the very idea of what can be owned is expanding, generating conflicts over the ownership of resources, ideas, culture, people, and even parts of people. Understanding processes of ownership and appropriation is not only central to anthropological theorizing but also has major practical applications, for policy, legislative development and conflict resolution.Ownership and Appropriation significantly extends anthropology's long-term concern with property by focusing on everyday notions and acts of owning and appropriating. The chapters document the relationship between ownership, subjectivities and personhood; they demonstrate the critical consequences of materiality and immateriality on what is owned; and they examine the social relations of property. By approaching ownership as social communication and negotiation, the text points to a more dynamic and processual understanding of property, ownership and appropriation.Table of ContentsForewordChris Hann (Max Planck Institute, Germany)IntroductionMark Busse (University of Auckland, New Zealand) and Veronica Strang (University of Auckland, New Zealand)PART ONE - SUBJECTS, PERSONHOOD AND PEOPLEHOODChapter 1. Sharing, Stealing and Borrowing SimultaneouslyMarilyn Strathern (University of Cambridge, UK)Chapter 2. On Having Achieved Appropriation: the Anak Berprestasi of Kepulauan RiauNicholas Long (University of Cambridge, UK)Chapter 3. Appropriating Authentic Practice: Competing Discourses of 'Being There', 'Having Been There' and 'Virtually Being There'Tamara Kohn (University of Melbourne, Australia) Chapter 4. Dreaming in Thread: from Ritual to Art and Property(s) Between Katie Glaskin (University of Western Australia)Chapter 5. The Legal Geographies of Cultural Rights: Community Subjects and their TraditionsRosemary Coombe (York University, UK)PART TWO - MATERIALITY AND IMMATERIALITYChapter 6. Cultural AppropriationTaihakurei (Eddie) Durie (Ngati Kauwhata, Aotearoa, New Zealand)Chapter 7. The Double Movement of Property Rights and Rental Regimes in Papua New GuineaColin Filer (Australian National University) and Michael Lowe (Australian National University)Chapter 8. Fluid Forms: Owning Water in AustraliaVeronica Strang (University of Auckland, New Zealand)Chapter 9. Appropriating Fish, Appropriating Fishermen: Tradable Permits, Natural Resources and Existential UncertaintyMonica Minnegal (University of Melbourne, Australia), Peter Dwyer (University of Melbourne, Australia)Chapter 10. Can't Find Nothing on the Radio: Access to the Radio Frequency Spectrum in NepalMichael Wilmore (University of Adelaide, Australia), Pawan Prakash Upreti (Equal Access Nepal)PART THREE - OWNERSHIP AS SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONChapter 11. The Village That Wasn't There: the Narrative Appropriation of a Tourist DestinationAdam Kaul (Augustana College, USA)Chapter 12. Formed and Forming: the Articulations of Yolngu Art in its ContextsHoward Morphy (Australian National University)Index
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Cambridge University Press Essays in the Theory and Measurement of Consumer Behaviour
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Cambridge University Press Economics and Social Interaction
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Cambridge University Press The Consumer Revolution 16501800
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Cambridge University Press Shelf Life
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Cambridge University Press Shelf Life
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Cambridge University Press Getting and Spending
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Handbook of Consumer Psychology
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Handbook of Consumer Psychology
Book SynopsisThis compendium curates and amplifies the voices of the leading scholars in consumer psychology across a wide range of topics. An indispensable resource for scholars and non-specialists, it also offers foundational and novel knowledge for adjacent fields such as marketing, economics, data science, management, and sociology.Trade Review'Lamberton, Rucker and Spiller have assembled a masterwork on consumer psychology. This book brings together some of the most highly regarded thought leaders across a variety of interesting research areas to provide a comprehensive overview that is both topical and timeless. It challenges the reader with intriguing research possibilities likely to inspire decades of research to come.' Kelly Goldsmith, Vanderbilt University, USA'An impressive collection of insights from leading experts on consumer psychology. This is the state of the science – a comprehensive guide to the fundamentals of decision-making, motivation, and persuasion, the roles of religion, politics, and status, and the impact of new methods and technologies.' Adam Grant, Wharton psychologist and no.1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again'A best-in-class handbook should capture the most incisive insights and forward-looking ideas of the leading thinkers in the field, and the Cambridge Handbook of Consumer Psychology does exactly this. With scholars expert in the most central issues to marketing today – from artificial intelligence to the broader role of marketing in society – this volume offers a comprehensive view of the field as it stands today, and how it is likely to change in the years to come.' Michael I. Norton, Harvard Business School, USATable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Attitudinal advocacy: contemporary insights and new questions Mohamed A. Hussein and Zakary L. Tormala; 2. Storytelling and narrative persuasion Rebecca Krause-Galoni and Philip Mazzaocco; 3. Consumer goals and motivation Jessica Gamlin and Maferima Touré-Tillery; 4. Consumer financial decision making Abigail B. Sussman, Yusu Wang and Anastasiya Apalkova; 5. Marketplace morality Saerom Lee and Karen Page Winterich; 6. A triadic framework of luxury consumption David Dubois and SungJin Jang; 7. Consumer identity: a comprehensive review and integration of contemporary research Julian K. Saint Clair; 8. Compensatory consumption Naomi Mandel, Monika Lisjack and Qin Wang; 9. Artificial intelligence and consumer psychology TaeWoo Kim and Adam Duhachek; 10. Interpersonal influences in consumer psychology Rosellina Ferraro and Brent McFerran; 11. The psychology of consumer social hierarchy and rank signaling Derek D. Rucker and Adam D. Galinsky; 12. Political ideology and consumer psychology Nailya Ordabayeva, Aylin Cakalar and Daniel Fernandes; 13. Religion and consumer psychology Eugenia Wu and Keisha Cutright; 14. The psychology of consumer dignity Tom Wein, Sakshi Ghai, Cait Lamberton, and Neela A. Saldanha; 15. The psychology of shared consumption Peggy J. Liu and Theresa A. Kwon; 16. The psychology of access-based consumption Varala Maraj and Fleura Bardhi; 17. Word-of-mouth and consumer psychology Sarah Moore and Katie Lafreniere; 18. Consumer culture Ela Veresiu; 19. Field studies in consumer psychology Minah Jung; 20. MTurk and online panel research Joseph K. Goodman and Scott A. Wright; 21. Meta-analysis: assessing heterogeneity using traditional and contemporary approaches Blakeley B. McShane and Ulf Böckenholt; 22. Netnography for consumer psychologists Robert V. Kozinets; 23. A recipe for honest consumer research Stijn M. J. van Osselaer and Chris Janiszewski.
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Penguin Random House India The Life of Y
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The University of Chicago Press Packaged Pleasures
Book SynopsisFrom the candy bar to the cigarette, records to roller coasters, a technological revolution during the last quarter of the nineteenth century precipitated a colossal shift in human consumption and sensual experience. This book sheds new light on the origins of modern consumer culture and how technologies have transformed human sensory experience.Trade Review"This book persuasively addresses one of the key questions in modern history: how human experience has been reshaped by mass marketing. It includes but goes beyond attention to advertising, to a fascinating exploration of technology's impact on products and packaging, and how the result has transformed sensory response. A groundbreaking effort." -Peter N. Stearns, author of The Industrial Revolution in World HistoryTable of Contents1. The Carrot and the Candy Bar 2. Containing Civilization, Preserving the Ephemeral, Going Tubular 3. The Cigarette Story 4. Superfoods and the Engineered Origins of the Modern Sweet Tooth 5. Portable Packets of Sound: The Birth of the Phonograph and Record 6. Packaging Sight: Projections, Snapshots, and Motion Pictures 7. Packaging Fantasy: The Amusement Park as Mechanized Circus, Electric Theater, and Commercialized Spectacle 8. Pleasure on Speed and the Calibrated Life: Fast Forwarding through the Last Century 9. Red Raspberries All the Time? Notes Index
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Routledge Material Cultures CoPublicati
Book SynopsisA collection of case studies which move from the domestic sphere to the global arena, this work includes examinations of the soundscape produced by home radios, catalogue shopping, the role of paper in the workplace, and the relation between the production and consumption of Coca-Cola in Trinidad.
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Random House USA Inc A Consumers Republic
Book SynopsisIn this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World War II fueled our pervasive consumer mentality and transformed American life.Trumpeted as a means to promote the general welfare, mass consumption quickly outgrew its economic objectives and became synonymous with patriotism, social equality, and the American Dream. Material goods came to embody the promise of America, and the power of consumers to purchase everything from vacuum cleaners to convertibles gave rise to the power of citizens to purchase political influence and effect social change. Yet despite undeniable successes and unprecedented affluence, mass consumption also fostered economic inequality and the fracturing of society along gender, class, and racial lines. In charting the complex legacy of our “Consumers’ Republic” Lizabeth Cohen has written a bold, encompassing, and profoundly influential book.
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Random House USA Inc Unleashing the Innovators
Book SynopsisToday''s established companies must find new ways to reignite their entrepreneurial DNA and jumpstart revenues--or risk losing their way. By working with startup companies, Jim Stengel, renowned consultant to Fortune 500 companies and the former global marketing officer for Procter & Gamble, says that legacy companies can renew themselves: by acquiring new technology and creating new business lines; relearning the need for speed; sparking innovation; and learning from failures. At P&G, Stengel saw the importance of establishing partnerships with the startup world in order to learn how to better innovate. Relying on extensive interviews with innovation leaders at enterprise companies and startups, Stengel’s Unleashing the Innovators takes readers inside such storied companies as GE and Wells Fargo, IBM and Target, Motorola Solutions and Toyota to see what they are learning from their alliances with
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Johns Hopkins University Press Freedom from Want
Book SynopsisDeftly combining intellectual, cultural, and political history, Freedom from Want sheds new light on the ways in which Americans reconceptualized the place of the consumer in society and the implications of these shifting attitudes for the philosophy ofliberalism and the role of government in safeguarding the material welfare of the people.Trade ReviewAt the core of this volume 'is the story of how freedom from want, an economic freedom defined by classical liberalism, became one of the essential human freedoms of modern American liberalism'... Edward Bellamy, Thorstein Veblen, and Adam Smith are a few of the many thinkers whose work Donohue reviews... This scholarly volume deserves a wide audience. Choice 2004 A well-crafted example of traditional intellectual history. Donohue's close reading of the works of a variety of economic and political theorists not only provides interesting new insights into the thought of the individuals she examines, but also allows her to construct a compelling narrative of the dramatic change that occurred over a span of half a century in liberal thinking about the role of consumption and consumers in the political economy. -- Larry G. Gerber EH.Net 2004 This is an intelligent, well-researched, carefully nuanced book about the gradual displacement in U.S. liberalism of a producerist outlook by a consumerist perspective... Donohue gives us a rich intellectual history of the bases for the government-managed, full-growth, high-employment, demand-driven economy that flourished as an ideal, and to a considerable extent in practice, between the 1940s and the 1970s. -- Mary O. Furner Business History Review 2004 Donohue offers a powerful case intertwining economic, intellectual, and political history... A most valuable contribution to the history of American economic thought. -- Amy S. Bix Enterprise and Society 2005 A provocative update on the effort that has gone on at least since Alexis de Tocqueville's time to sort out the relationship between material desires and democracy. -- Alan Lawson Journal of American History 2005 An authoritative and well-researched account of the emergence of consumption and the consumer within American political economic thought. -- Matthew Hilton Business History 2005 Furthers understanding of the political history of mass consumption in the United States. -- Steven T. Sheehan Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 2005 The book offers a well-researched and thoughtful history of ideas, and it should be of interest to economists as well as intellectual and economic historians. -- Susan J. Matt American Historical Review 2007Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Producerist Worldview, 1870–19002. Legitimizing the Consumer, 1880–19003. At the Crossroads, 1899–19124. Politicizing the Consumer, 1909–19235. "What's an Economic System For?" 1917–19336. The Demise of Economic Planning, 1933–19407. The Common Ground of Abundance, 1933–1940ConclusionNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press User Unfriendly
Book SynopsisUser Unfriendly will be valuable to historians of technology, students of American culture, and anyone interested in our modern dependence on machines and gadgets.Trade Review"A thoughtful, even profound meditation on the relationship of technology and culture." (Robert C. Post, National Museum of American History)"Table of ContentsIntroduction: Our Marvelous and Maddening Machines1. The Advent of Technology Consumption2. Buying an Automobile3. Running a Car4. Tools, Tinkering, and Trouble5. Reading the Owner's Manual6. Computers and the Tyranny of Technology ConsumptionEpilogue: The Technology TreadmillAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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Berrett-Koehler Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate
Book SynopsisDid Supreme Court sell out America's citizens in the nineteenth century, with consequences lasting to this day? Is there a way for American citizens to recover democracy of, by, and for the people?Thom Hartmann takes on these most difficult questions and tells a startling story that will forever change your understanding of American history. Amongst a deep historical context, Hartmann describes the history of the Fourteenth Amendment created at the end of the Civil War to grant basic rights to freed slaves and how it has been used by lawyers representing corporate interests to extend additional rights to businesses far more frequently than to freed slaves. Prior to 1886, corporations were referred to in U.S. law as "artificial persons." But in 1886, after a series of cases brought by lawyers representing the expanding railroad interests, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations were "persons" and entitled to the same rights granted to people under the Bill of Rights. Since this ruling, America has lost the legal structures that allowed for people to control corporate behavior. In this revised and expanded second edition, Hartmann incorporates specific examples from today's headlines and proposes specific legal remedies that could truly save the world from political, economic and ecological disaster.
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Berrett-Koehler Affluenza: How Over-Consumption Is Killing Us -
Book SynopsisNew Edition, Revised and Updatedaffluenza, n. a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety, and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more.We tried to warn you! The 2008 economic collapse proved how resilient and dangerous affluenza can be. Now in its third edition, this book can safely be called prophetic in showing how problems ranging from loneliness, endless working hours, and family conflict to rising debt, environmental pollution, and rampant commercialism are all symptoms of this global plague. The new edition traces the role overconsumption played in the Great Recession, discusses new ways to measure social health and success (such as the Gross Domestic Happiness index), and offers policy recommendations to make our society more simplicity-friendly. The underlying message isnât to stop buying - itâs to remember, always, that the best things in life arenât things.
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Island Press Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession
Book SynopsisPeter Gleick knows water. A world-renowned freshwater expert, Gleick is a MacArthur Foundation "genius", and according to the BBC, an environmental visionary. And he drinks from the tap. Why don't the rest of us? "Bottled and Sold" shows how water went from being a free natural resource to one of the most successful commercial products of the last one hundred years - and why we are poorer for it. It's a big story and water is big business. Every second of every day in the United States, a thousand people buy a plastic bottle of commercially produced water, and every second of every day a thousand more throw one of those bottles away. That adds up to more than thirty billion bottles a year and tens of billions of dollars. Have we simply been hoodwinked by corporate executives or are there legitimate reasons to buy all those bottles? With a scientist's eye and a natural storyteller's wit, Gleick investigates whether claims about the relative safety, convenience, and taste of bottled vs. tap hold water. And he exposes the true reasons we've turned to the bottle, from fear-mongering by business interests and our own vanity to the breakdown of public systems and global inequities. Jewel-encrusted "designer" H2O may be laughable, but the debate over commodifying water is deadly serious. It comes down to society's choices about the human right to water, the role of government and free markets, the importance of being "green", and fundamental values. Gleick gets to the heart of the bottled water craze, exploring what it means for our most basic necessity to become a luxury.
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Triarchy Press Deserted Devices and Wasted Fences: Everyday
Book SynopsisHow can we imagine a technologized life that deviates from globalized norms and standardization and from our collective obsession with endless growth? In 'Deserted Devices and Wasted Fences', artist and cultural critic Dani Ploeger examines everyday technologies found in places and circumstances that are usually unforeseen by their designers, manufacturers and marketers. He travels through second-hand markets in sub-Saharan Africa, the frontline in the Russo-Ukrainian War, desert landscapes in the Middle East, anti-immigration fences on the EU border and many other sites of turmoil, disruption and surprising convergences. Examining the ways in which technologies that were intended for use in everyday consumer culture start to (mal)function, gain new meanings and are appropriated in these liminal spaces can give us hints at what alternative techno-cultures could look like. This collection of essays provokes unusual perspectives on how technologies might be developed, used and reappropriated in support of people’s personal, local and regional lifeworlds and lifestyles.Trade Review“Highly recommended for all scholars, thinkers, artists… well for anyone with an interest in stuff, things, technology, waste, bodies, consumerism, and so much else that’s going in our crazy, divided and imperilled world. Delivered in wonderfully erudite and insightful, not to mention often plainly hilarious, bite-sized chunks of smart observation and edgy practice across a myriad quotidian but often less visible lives and situations - and all entangled with enough theoretical sophistication to inspire critical reflection in any reader, without drowning them. In this book Ploeger and his diverse collaborators offer an exciting, and sometimes disturbing reflection upon some of the key issues of our time. Not to be missed.”; Joost Fontein, Professor of Anthropology, University of Johannesburg; "I very much recommend this very captivating read of Ploeger’s endeavour to highlight not only the wastages of our ‘throwaway’ society, but also globally explore and posit innovative ways that already exist or could exist to rethink and reappropriate technology, at the same time producing new significatory ways of technological being."; Susan Broadhurst, Professor Emerita of Performance and Technology, Brunel University London / Chair, Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts (DRHA); “This book is gritty and provocative, asking us to review technologies through a radical vision. The festival, the event and the everyday come together in an enticing assemblage. Exceptional in terms of intellectual contributions and vantage point.”; Yasmin Ibrahim, Professor of Digital Economy and Culture, Queen Mary, University of LondonTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Tactical Transgressions: Bashar al-Assad’s phone 2. E-Waste in Cling Film: The symbolic order of technological progress 3. Hi-Tech Everything: A report from the heart of techno-consumerism 4. Eerie Prostheses and Kinky Strap-Ons: Mori’s uncanny valley and ableist ideology 5. The Dirt Inside: Computers and the performance of dust 6. Orodha: The ultimate fetish commodity and its reversal 7. Frugal Phone / Material Medium 8. Positioning the Middle of Nowhere: GPS technology and the desert 9. Sounds of Violence: The affective tonality of high-tech warfare 10. Smart Bombs, Bulldozers and the Technology of Hidden Destruction 11. Smart Technologies and Soviet Guns: The dialectics of postdigital warfare 12. Techno-Mythology on the Border: The pandemic risk society 13. Camera Surveillance and Barbed Wire 14. The Smart Fence is the Message: EU border barriers as violent media 15. The Deluxe Anti-Terrorist Barrier 16. Struggle and Expand: The Delta Works as colonial technology Postscript: Artificial techno-myths
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Brepols N.V. Settlement and Lordship in Viking and Early
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