Consumer Society and the Post-modern City

David B Clarke (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

278 Seiten

2003
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-20515-3 (ISBN)

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The fact that we inhabit a consumer society has incredibly far-reaching implications. Working through the often controversial ideas of the consumer society's most influential theorists, Jean Baudrillard and Zygmunt Bauman, this book assesses the ways in which consumerism is reshaping the nature and meaning of the city. It examines the nature of consumption and its increasing centrality to post-modern society by;
*considering the development of consumerism as a central facet of social life
*demonstrating that social inequalities are increasingly structured around consumption
*uncovering the hidden consequences of consumerism
*pondering the meaning of lifestyle
*revealing how the nature of reality is changing in an age of globalization.

Employing a sustained and engaging theoretical analysis, the book ranges across a variety of sometimes unexpected topics. It represents an impassioned plea for everyone interested in the social life of cities to take the notion of the consumer society - and the arguments of its major theorists - seriously.

David B. Clarke is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Leeds

Introduction Part 1. Consumption 1. Consumption Controversies 2. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Consumption (But Were Afraid to Ask Baudrillard) Part 2. Consumption and the City 3. Consumption and the City, Modern and Postmodern 4. Seduced and Repressed: Collective Consumption Revisited (with Michael G. Bradford) Part 3. The Consumer Society and the Postmodern City 5. The Meaning of Lifestyle 6. Minimal Utopia, Notes References

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.4.2003
Zusatzinfo	1 Tables, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	430 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-415-20515-8 / 0415205158
ISBN-13	978-0-415-20515-3 / 9780415205153
Zustand	Neuware