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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457920003321

Autore

Jubas Kaela

Titolo

The politics of shopping : what consumers learn about identity, globalization, and social change / / Kaela Jubas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-41748-0

1-315-41749-9

1-59874-667-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Collana

International Institute for Qualitative Methodology series

Disciplina

339.4/8

Soggetti

Shopping - Political aspects

Shopping - Social aspects

Shopping - Psychological aspects

Consumption (Economics) - Political aspects

Globalization - Economic aspects

Culture and globalization

Shopping in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2010 by Left Coast Press, Inc.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Interlude I: Images of Promise and Desire; Chapter 1: In the Beginning . . .; Interlude II: Images of Trouble and Critique; Chapter 2: Under the Microscope: Conceptual Map; Interlude III: Shopping for a Dissertation; Chapter 3: Snapping the Picture: Envisioning the Research Project; Chapter 4: Novel Consumption: Going Shopping and Learning with Fictional Characters; Interlude IV: A PhD Student, Her Books, and Her Search for a Bookcase; Chapter 5: The Disciplines of Shopping: What Participants Learn to Do; Interlude V: My Dinner at Moyo's

Chapter 6: Growing Up with, Growing Into, Growing Out of: Who Participants Learn to BeInterlude VI: Radical Accidents; Chapter 7: At the Root of It All: How Participants Learn to Make Change; Interlude VII: Rumours and Queues; Chapter 8: Somewhere around the Middle; References; About the Author



Sommario/riassunto

This revised version of Kaela Jubas' award winning dissertation focuses on contemporary shopping practices, analyzing the ways concerned shoppers think about globalization, consumption, and their personal effect on the status quo.  By using numerous examples from modern advertising, interviews with self-described "radical" shoppers, and selected quotes from scholars and experts, Jubas delves into questions of social justice, environmental awareness, and consumer identity -- all demonstrated by individual choices made at the checkout counter.  Employing a variety of qualitative research te