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Consumer Society and the Post-modern City

Consumer Society and the Post-modern City Paperback - 2003 - 1st Edition

by David B Clarke

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New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; 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.
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  • Title Consumer Society and the Post-modern City
  • Author David B Clarke
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition New
  • Pages 278
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge, New York, NY, U.S.A
  • Date 2003-04-17
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ria9780415205153_pod
  • ISBN 9780415205153 / 0415205158
  • Weight 0.87 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.59 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 1.50 cm)
  • Themes
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
  • Library of Congress subjects Capitalism, Consumer behavior
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002014227
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.309

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From the publisher

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.

First line

According to Wyrwa (1998, 432), the Middle Ages had no single term corresponding to what we now matter-of-factly refer to as 'consumption': 'Only with the advent of mercantilism, devoted to the fiscal interests of the sovereign, does the Latin derivative "consumption" begin to take on real meaning'.

About the author

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

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