| Time, Consumption and Everyday Life: Practice, Materiality and Culture Contributor(s): Shove, Elizabeth (Editor), Trentmann, Frank (Editor), Wilk, Richard (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1847883648 ISBN-13: 9781847883643 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $47.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2009 Annotation: Has material civilization spun out of control, becoming too fast for our own well-being and that of the planet? This book confronts these anxieties and examines the changing rhythms and temporal organization of everyday life. How do people handle hurriedness, burn-out and stress? Are slower forms of consumption viable? This volume brings together international experts from geography, sociology, history, anthropology and philosophy. In case studies covering the United States, Asia, and Europe, contributors follow routines and rhythms, their emotional and political dynamics, and show how they are anchored in material culture and everyday practice. Running themes of the book are questions of coordination and disruption; cycles and seasons; and the interplay between power and freedom, and between material and natural forces. The result is a volume that brings studies of practice, temporality and material culture together to open up a new intellectual agenda. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Sociology - General - History | Historical Geography |
| Dewey: 306.301 |
| LCCN: 2009026601 |
| Series: Cultures of Consumption (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (0.90 lbs) 250 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Has material civilization spun out of control, becoming too fast for our own well-being and that of the planet? This book confronts these anxieties and examines the changing rhythms and temporal organization of everyday life. How do people handle hurriedness, burn-out and stress? Are slower forms of consumption viable? This volume brings together international experts from geography, sociology, history, anthropology and philosophy. In case studies covering the United States, Asia and Europe, contributors follow routines and rhythms, their emotional and political dynamics and show how they are anchored in material culture and everyday practice. Running themes of the book are questions of coordination and disruption; cycles and seasons; and the interplay between power and freedom, and between material and natural forces. The result is a volume that brings studies of practice, temporality and material culture together to open up a new intellectual agenda. |
Contributor Bio(s): Shove, Elizabeth: - Elizabeth Shove is Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University.Shove, Elizabeth: - Elizabeth Shove is Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University.Trentmann, Frank: - FRANK TRENTMANN is Professor of Modern History at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. Recent publications include Consuming Cultures, Global Perspectives, edited with John Brewer (2006) and Civil Society: A Reader in History, Theory and Global Politics, edited with John A. Hall (2005). Wilk, Richard: - Richard Wilk is Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at Indiana University. |