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