Consumption

This book is the first of its kind to bring together a collection of critical scholarly work on consumer culture in South Africa, exploring the cultural, political, economic, and social aspects of consumption in post-Apartheid society. By mapping, exploring and theorizing the diverse aspects of cons..

This book is the first of its kind to bring together a collection of critical scholarly work on consumer culture in South Africa, exploring the cultural, political, economic, and social aspects of consumption in post-Apartheid society. By mapping, exploring and theorizing the diverse aspects of cons..

The book engages with the topic of ethical consumption and explores ethical consumer practices and identities from a critical realist perspective. By elaborating Margaret Archer’s work on human reflexivity, it develops an original social theory explaining how individuals form, actualise, and sustain..

Based on a wide range of primary sources, Arvidsson argues that the culture of consumption we see in Italy today has its direct roots in the social vision articulated by the advertising industry in the years following World War One...

Even though most of us know that novelty consumption poses a serious threat to an environmentally and socially sustainable future, we continue to do it. Why? This book discusses sustainable consumption from a stress perspective, helping to understand the sustainability related consumption challenges..