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

• Autore: Jubas Kaela
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (321 p.)
• Disciplina: 339.4/8
• Soggetto topico: Shopping - Political aspects; Shopping - Social aspects; Shopping - Psychological aspects; Consumption (Economics) - Political aspects; Globalization - Economic aspects; Culture and globalization; Shopping in literature
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The politics of shopping
• ISBN: 1-315-41747-2; 1-315-41748-0; 1-315-41749-9; 1-59874-667-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813559903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: International Institute for Qualitative Methodology series.