Time, consumption and everyday life [[electronic resource] ] : practice, materiality and culture / / edited by Elizabeth Shove, Frank Trentmann and Richard Wilk

• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Berg, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (230 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.301
• Soggetto topico: Time - Sociological aspects; Consumption (Economics) - Social aspects; Time management - Social aspects
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: ShoveElizabeth <1959-> TrentmannFrank WilkRichard R
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Tables and Figures; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Section I: Time, Space and Practice; 1 Everyday Practice and the Production and Consumption of Time; 2 Timespace and the Organization of Social Life; 3 Re-ordering Temporal Rhythms: Coordinating Daily Practices in the UK in 1937 and 2000; Section II: Pace and Scale: Temporal Order and Disruption; 4 Disruption is Normal: Blackouts, Breakdowns and the Elasticity of Everyday Life; 5 My Soul for a Seat: Commuting and the Routines of Mobility ; 6 Routines - Made and UnmadeSection III: Rhythms, Patterns and Temporal Cycles of Consumption; 7 Calendars and Clocks: Cycles of Horticultural Commerce in Nineteenth-Century America; 8 Fads, Fashions and 'Real' Innovations: Novelties and Social Change; 9 The Edge of Agency: Routines, Habits and Volition; Section IV: The Temporalities of Stuff; 10 Buying Time; 11 Seasonal and Commercial Rhythms of Domestic Consumption: A Japanese Case Study; 12 Special and Ordinary Times: Tea in Motion; 13 Making Time: Reciprocal Object Relations and the Self-legitimizing Time of Wooden Boating ; 14 The Ethics of Routine: Consciousness, Tedium and Value
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Time, consumption and everyday life
• ISBN: 1-000-18147-2; 1-003-08723-X; 1-000-18465-X; 1-4742-1586-6; 1-84788-624-8; 1-282-28620-X; 9786612286209; 1-84788-593-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454888703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cultures of Consumption Series