Description
Book SynopsisWhat is the consequence of commodifying experiences?
Trade Review‘Well written and extensively researched, this book is a must read for anyone seeking to understand the nature of consumption and experience in contemporary society'
-- Garry Crawford, co-author of 'Video Games as Culture'
'An enlightening grand tour of the neoliberal experience economy. Probing beneath the ideological rhetoric of self-expressive consumer choices, Miles reveals how the psycho-social effects of the experience economy are governed by new forms of capitalist influence'
-- Professor Craig Thompson, the James R. McManus-Bascom Professor in Marketing and the Gilbert and Helen Churchill Professor in the Marketing Department of the Wisconsin School of Business
'Takes us on a powerful analytic journey that exposes the underpinning ideological processes that define who and what we are as citizens of a society driven by consumerism'
-- Pauline Maclaran, Professor of Marketing & Consumer Research in the School of Management at Royal Holloway
Table of ContentsPreface
1. Introducing the Experience Society
2. Consumption, Identity, Experience
3. Leisure and Tourism
4. Work Experience
5. Technologies of Self
6. Space, Place and the Architecture of Experience
7. The Spectacle of Sport
8. The Coffee Shop Experience
9. Consumer Capitalism Rebooted
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Index
