Over-consumption is one of the key issues of our time, especially
in the Western world. Over the past decade, in the face of
historically unprecedented levels of consumer spending in the West
- and the more recent impact of recession - a vigorous politics of
anti-consumerism has emerged in a range of wealthy nations.
This timely and original new book provides a comprehensive
overview and analysis of what has come to be called the 'new
politics of consumption'; a politics embodied in movements such as
culture jamming, simple living, slow food and fair trade. The book
offers an examination of anti-consumerism at a time when the idea
of 'consumer excess' is being re-framed by a global economic
downturn, and crucially explores what this means for the future of
political debate. Drawing on interviews with activists across three
continents, and offering a refreshingly accessible discussion of
contemporary commentary and theory, Kim Humphery sympathetically
explores anti-consumerism as cultural interpretation, lifestyle
change, and collective action.
Whilst analysing the positive advances of the anti-consumerist
movement, "Excess "also challenges contemporary critical thinking
on consumption, taking issue with the return to theories of mass
culture in contemporary anti-consumerist polemic. Alternatively,
Humphery begins to forge a politics of anti-consumerism that
addresses the complexity of material acquisition and which avoids
treating consumers as mere dupes in the logic of capitalism,
viewing them instead as active participants in a culture which is
capable of transformation.
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