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The Politics of Consumption - Material Culture and Citizenship in Europe and America (Hardcover)
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The Politics of Consumption - Material Culture and Citizenship in Europe and America (Hardcover)
Series: Leisure, Consumption and Culture
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Objects and commodities have frequently been studied to assess
their position within consumer - or material - culture, but all too
rarely have scholars examined the politics that lie behind that
culture. This book fills the gap and explores the political and
state structures that have shaped the consumer and the nature of
his or her consumption. From medieval sumptuary laws to recent
debates in governments about consumer protection, consumption has
always been seen as a highly political act that must be regulated,
directed or organized according to the political agendas of various
groups. An internationally renowned group of experts looks at the
emergence of the rational consuming individual in modern economic
thought, the moral and ideological values consumers have attached
to their relationships with commodities, and how the practices and
theories of consumer citizenship have developed alongside and
within the expanding state. How does consumer identity become
available to people and how do they use it? How is consumption
negotiated in a dictatorship? Are material politics about state
politics, consumer politics, or the relationship between these and
consumer practices?
From the specifics of the politics of consumption in the French
Revolution - what was the status of rum? How complicated did a
vinegar recipe have to be before the resultant product qualified as
'luxury'? - to the highly contentious twentieth-century debates
over American political economy, this original book traces the
relationships among political cultures, consumers and citizenship
from the eighteenth century to the present.
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