Shelf Life - Supermarkets and the Changing Cultures of Consumption (Hardcover, New)

Supermarkets, in all their everyday mundanity, embody something of the enormous complexity of living and consuming in late twentieth century western societies. Shelf Life, first published in 1998, explores the supermarket as a retail space and as an arena of everyday consumption in Australia. It historically situates and critically discusses the everyday food products we buy, the retail environments in which we do so, the attitudes of the retailers who construct such environments, and the diverse ways in which all of us undertake and think about supermarket shopping. Yet this book is more than narrative history. It engages with broader issues of the nature of Australian modernity, the globalisation of retail forms, the connection between consumption and self-autonomy, and the highly gendered nature of retailing and shopping. It interrogates also the work of cultural critics, and questions recent attempts to grasp what it means to consume and to be a 'consumer'.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 1998
First published:	1998
Authors:	Kim Humphery
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	282
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-62316-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Consumer issues Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Distributive industries > Retail sector
LSN:	0-521-62316-2
Barcode:	9780521623162

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