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The consumer ethic is ubiquitous. Everything we do, see, hear and even feel appears to be connected in some way to our experience as consumers. The increasingly high profile of debates over consumption, consumer culture, consumer behaviour and consumer rights reflects a world undergoing rapid change. The Changing Consumer charts thenature of that change, as well as discussing why consumption has become so important and what role, if any, it plays in underpinning social, economic and political transformation. Featuring contributions from some of the leading theorists of consumption from across a range of disciplines, this collection includes chapters on: * Men's consumption and men's magazines * The changing profile of women as consumers * the representation of consumption on popular TV shows * Consuming retro chic * The symbolic and emotional role of alcohol consumption. Drawing on fascinating case studies throughout, this book will be essential reading for students and academics interested in the study of consumption.
Contents: 1. Introduction: the meaning of consumption; the meaning of change? Steven Miles, Kevin Meethan and Alison Anderson 2. Setting the Scene: changing conceptions of consumption Alan Warde 3. Consuming Women; winning women? Janice Winship 4. Consuming Men; producing Loaded Ben Crewe 5. Producing TV; consuming TV Steve Spittle 6. Consuming Advertising; consuming cultural history Liz McFall and Paul du Gay 7. Consuming Retro; consuming design Adrian Franklin 8. Consuming Symbolic Meaning; consuming alcohol 9. Consuming Technology; consuming home computers Elaine Lally 10. Consuming Youth; consuming lifestyles Steven Miles 11. Changing Consumer; changing disciplinarity Russell W. Belk
This book presents a systematic and pattern-based explanation of
food tourism, focusing on how and why change could occur and what
the implications could be. In the future will food tourism involve
food grown in the laboratory or a more authentic experience
associated with place and history? The book's approach to the
future has focused on explanation; the contributors look for the
causes, trends and theoretical concepts that explain change, thus
attempting to justify and explore the future. Scenarios are used to
explore alternative futures and the book examines the implications
for the future of food tourism and highlights future research
avenues. This book is primarily aimed at postgraduate students and
researchers in the field of tourism studies.
This book addresses the practices of consumption in tourism, a
major theme in the sociology of tourism. To date, most tourism
analysis has tended to concentrate on the production of tourist
space, and assume that tourism consumption simply mirrors the
intentions of the producers. By focusing on a number of relevant
sub-themes, such as age, gender, religion and sexual orientation,
the chapters within this book critically examine such assumptions
in terms of the interplay between the production and consumption of
tourist spaces, and how patterns of tourism consumption are
negotiated on an individual level.
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Cornish Studies Volume 16 (Paperback)
Philip Payton; Contributions by Graham Busby, Pamela Dale, Robert Dickinson, Erik Grigg, …
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The latest volume of "Cornish Studies" includes articles on the
possible existence of a Medieval Cornish Bible; the rebellion and
Civil War during Cornwall's early modern period; the Cornish Army;
Cornish emigration to Australia; Cornish identity; tourism and
representations of Cornwall in travel writing; and social,
political, economic, and public health issues affecting Cornwall in
the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.
There is a wealth of scholarship on tourism from a variety of different disciplines, but few attempts to synthesize its broad themes into a coherent analytical framework. This book addresses this problem by analyzing tourism in light of contemporary social theory. By focusing on tourism in terms of consumption, commodification, and the political and cultural economy, the relationships between tourism, globalization, people, and place are explored in an empirically grounded but theoretically informed analysis.
There is a wealth of case study material on tourism from a variety
of different disciplines, but few attempts to synthesize the broad
themes into a coherent analytical framework. This book addresses
this problem by analyzing tourism in light of contemporary social
theory. By focusing on tourism in terms of consumption,
commodification, and the political and cultural economy, the
relationships between tourism, globalization, people and place are
explored in an empirically grounded but theoretically informed
analysis.
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