Addictive Consumption: Capitalism, Modernity and Excess - Hardcover

Reith, Gerda

 
9780415268264: Addictive Consumption: Capitalism, Modernity and Excess
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0415268265 ISBN 13: 9780415268264
Verlag: Routledge, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

By drawing on case studies of shopping, food, gambling and drugs, this volume demonstrates the ways in which modern practices of consumption are rooted in historical processes and embedded in wider socio-economic structures of power.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Gerda Reith is Professor of Sociology in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow, UK. Her research interests lie in the intersections of sociology, political economy, public health and psychology, with a particular focus on the substantive areas of consumption, risk and addiction. She has written and lectured extensively on the empirical and theoretical issues around these topics, and her work has been translated into a number of languages, including Korean, Chinese, Spanish and Hungarian. Her book, The Age of Chance: Gambling in Western Culture (Routledge) won the Philip Abrams Prize for the best book in sociology for 2000.

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Verlag
Routledge
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0415268265
ISBN 13 
9780415268264
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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