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With an emphasis on everyday life, this respected text offers a
lively and perceptive account of the key theories and ideas which
dominate the field of consumption and consumer culture. This third
revised and expanded edition is a major update of the text of the
second edition, adding new chapters on youth culture and
consumption, retail psychology, gender and consumption, the
globalization of food and FairTrade, and digital consumption and
platform capitalism. Various theoretical perspectives - such as
theories of practice, semiotics, to psychoanalysis - are used to
illustrate concepts and trends in consumption, whilst a wide range
of engaging and up-to-date case studies are employed throughout to
provide historical context and illustrate forms of consumption.
Written by an experienced teacher, the book offers an accessible
and thought-provoking introduction to the concept of consumption
for students in sociology, cultural studies, history, anthropology,
and social psychology.
With an emphasis on everyday life, this respected text offers a
lively and perceptive account of the key theories and ideas which
dominate the field of consumption and consumer culture. This third
revised and expanded edition is a major update of the text of the
second edition, adding new chapters on youth culture and
consumption, retail psychology, gender and consumption, the
globalization of food and FairTrade, and digital consumption and
platform capitalism. Various theoretical perspectives - such as
theories of practice, semiotics, to psychoanalysis - are used to
illustrate concepts and trends in consumption, whilst a wide range
of engaging and up-to-date case studies are employed throughout to
provide historical context and illustrate forms of consumption.
Written by an experienced teacher, the book offers an accessible
and thought-provoking introduction to the concept of consumption
for students in sociology, cultural studies, history, anthropology,
and social psychology.
Given that touch and touching is so central to everyday embodied
existence, why has it been largely ignored by social scientists for
so long? What is the place of touch in our mixed spaces of
sociality, work, domesticity, recreation, creativity or care? What
conceptual resources and academic languages can we reach towards
when approaching tactile activities and somatic experiences through
the body? How is this tactile landscape gendered? How is touch
becoming revisited and revalidated in late capitalism through
animal encounters, tourism, massage, beauty treatments,
professional medicine, everyday spiritualities or the aseptic
touch-free spaces of automated toilets? How is touch placed and
valued within scholarly fieldwork and research itself, integral as
it is to the production of embodied epistemologies? How is touch
involved in such aesthetic experiences as shaping objects in sand,
or encountering fleshly bodies within a painting? The goal of this
edited collection, Touching Space, Placing Touch is twofold: 1. To
further advance theoretical and empirical understanding of touch in
social science scholarship by focussing on the differential social
and cultural meanings of touching and the places of touch. 2. To
develop a multi-faceted and interdisciplinary explanations of touch
in terms of individual and social life, personal experiences and
tasks, and their related cultural contexts. The twelve essays in
this volume provide a rich combination of theoretical resources,
methodological approaches and empirical investigation. Each chapter
takes a distinct aspect of touch within a particular spatial
context, exploring this through a mixture of sustained empirical
work, critical theories of embodiment, philosophical and
psychoanalytic approaches to gendered touch and touching, or the
relationship between visual and non-visual culture, to articulate
something of the variety and variability of touching experiences.
The contributors are a mixture of established and emerging
researchers within a growing interdisciplinary field of
scholarship, yet the volume has a strong thematic identity and
therefore represents the formative collection concerning the
multiple senses of touch within social science scholarship at this
time.
Given that touch and touching is so central to everyday embodied
existence, why has it been largely ignored by social scientists for
so long? What is the place of touch in our mixed spaces of
sociality, work, domesticity, recreation, creativity or care? What
conceptual resources and academic languages can we reach towards
when approaching tactile activities and somatic experiences through
the body? How is this tactile landscape gendered? How is touch
becoming revisited and revalidated in late capitalism through
animal encounters, tourism, massage, beauty treatments,
professional medicine, everyday spiritualities or the aseptic
touch-free spaces of automated toilets? How is touch placed and
valued within scholarly fieldwork and research itself, integral as
it is to the production of embodied epistemologies? How is touch
involved in such aesthetic experiences as shaping objects in sand,
or encountering fleshly bodies within a painting? The goal of this
edited collection, Touching Space, Placing Touch is twofold: 1. To
further advance theoretical and empirical understanding of touch in
social science scholarship by focussing on the differential social
and cultural meanings of touching and the places of touch. 2. To
develop a multi-faceted and interdisciplinary explanations of touch
in terms of individual and social life, personal experiences and
tasks, and their related cultural contexts. The twelve essays in
this volume provide a rich combination of theoretical resources,
methodological approaches and empirical investigation. Each chapter
takes a distinct aspect of touch within a particular spatial
context, exploring this through a mixture of sustained empirical
work, critical theories of embodiment, philosophical and
psychoanalytic approaches to gendered touch and touching, or the
relationship between visual and non-visual culture, to articulate
something of the variety and variability of touching experiences.
The contributors are a mixture of established and emerging
researchers within a growing interdisciplinary field of
scholarship, yet the volume has a strong thematic identity and
therefore represents the formative collection concerning the
multiple senses of touch within social science scholarship at this
time.
Touch is the first sense to develop in the womb, yet often it is
overlooked. The Senses of Touch examines the role of touching and
feeling as part of the fabric of everyday, embodied experience. How
can we think about touch? Problems of touch and tactility run as a
continuous thread in philosophy, psychology, medical writing and
representations in art, from Ancient Greece to the present day.
Picking through some of these threads, the book 'feels' its way
towards writing and thinking about touch as both sensory and
affective experience. Taking a broadly phenomenological framework
that traces tactility from Aristotle through the Enlightenment to
the present day, the book examines the role of touch across a range
of experiences including aesthetics, digital design, visual
impairment and touch therapies. The Senses of Touch thereby
demonstrates the varieties of sensory experience, and explores the
diverse range of our 'senses' of touch.
An engrossing history of the century that transformed our knowledge
of the body's inner senses The years between 1833 and 1945
fundamentally transformed science's understanding of the body's
inner senses, revolutionizing fields like philosophy, the social
sciences, and cognitive science. In How We Became Sensorimotor,
Mark Paterson provides a systematic account of this transformative
period, while also demonstrating its substantial implications for
current explorations into phenomenology, embodied consciousness,
the extended mind, and theories of the sensorimotor, the body, and
embodiment. Each chapter of How We Became Sensorimotor takes a
particular sense and historicizes its formation by means of recent
scientific studies, case studies, or coverage in the media. Ranging
among a diverse array of sensations, including balance, fatigue,
pain, the "muscle sense," and what Maurice Merleau-Ponty termed
"motricity," Paterson's analysis moves outward from the familiar
confines of the laboratory to those of the industrial world and
even to wild animals and their habitats. He uncovers important
stories, such as how forgotten pain-measurement schemes transformed
criminology, or how Penfield's outmoded concepts of the sensory and
motor homunculi of the brain still mar psychology textbooks.
Complete with original archival research featuring illustrations
and correspondence, How We Became Sensorimotor shows how the
shifting and sometimes contested historical background to our
understandings of the senses are being extended even today.
A literary, historical and philosophical discussion of attitudes to
blindness by the sighted, and what the blind 'see' Why has there
been a persistent fascination by the sighted, including
philosophers, poets and the public, in what the blind 'see'? Is the
experience of being blind, as Descartes declared, like 'seeing with
the hands'? What happens on the rare occasions when surgery allows
previously blind people to see for the very first time? And how did
evidence from early experimental surgery inform those philosophical
debates about vision and touch? These questions and others were
prompted by a question that the Irish scientist, Molyneux, asked an
English philosopher, Locke, in 1688, but which was to have
implications for British empiricism, French sensationism, and the
beginnings of psychology that outlasted the long tail of the
Enlightenment. Through an unfolding historical and philosophical
narrative the book follows up responses to this question in Britain
and France, and considers it as an early articulation of sensory
substitution, the substitution of one sense (touch) for another
(vision). This concept has influenced attitudes towards blindness,
and technologies for the blind and vision impaired, to this day.
Key Features Unfolds the history of 'blindness' from 17th century
that shades into the beginnings of psychology Questions the assumed
centrality of vision and the eye in Enlightenment philosophy and
science Traces the core idea of 'sensory substitution' from
hypothetical speculations in the 17th century to present day
technologies for the blind and vision impaired
Touch is the first sense to develop in the womb. Yet often it is
overlooked. The Senses of Touch examines the role of touching and
feeling as part of the fabric of everyday, embodied experience. How
can we think about touch? Problems of touch and tactility run as a
continuous thread in philosophy, psychology, medical writing and
representations in art, from Ancient Greece to the present day. Not
merely immediate skin sensation, touching and feeling are
inextricably woven into embodied experiences that are emotional and
expressive, personal and interpersonal, and mediated through
technologies. Picking through some of these threads, the book
'feels' its way towards writing and thinking about touch as both
sensory and affective experience. Examining the role of touch in
art, memory, digital design, developmental psychology, experiences
of visual impairment, and tactile therapies, The Senses of Touch
demonstrates the varieties of sensory experience, and explores the
diverse range of our 'senses' of touch.
Wise and humorous stories that explore people's extraordinary lives
in suburbia's little wild spaces. Routinely maligned as a bastion
of boredom and conformity, the suburb is examined in a different
light in Dreamers and Misfits of Montclair. At the heart of these
fourteen short stories is refusal of the monotonous and the
struggle for individuality in a place so relentlessly homogenous.
In his third short story collection, Mark Paterson introduces the
town of Montclair, a fictional suburb in the North Shore of
Montreal, where he celebrates characters who, out of restlessness,
out of nothing, make their lives on the outskirts of the big city a
little bit - or a lot - out of the ordinary. With Paterson's
trademark humour and emotion, Dreamers and Misfits of Montclair
explores suburbia's little wild spaces: the places hidden away in
overgrown fields behind commercial buildings, beneath concrete
schoolyard staircases, and in the hearts and minds of its
inhabitants.
An engrossing history of the century that transformed our knowledge
of the body's inner senses The years between 1833 and 1945
fundamentally transformed science's understanding of the body's
inner senses, revolutionizing fields like philosophy, the social
sciences, and cognitive science. In How We Became Sensorimotor,
Mark Paterson provides a systematic account of this transformative
period, while also demonstrating its substantial implications for
current explorations into phenomenology, embodied consciousness,
the extended mind, and theories of the sensorimotor, the body, and
embodiment. Each chapter of How We Became Sensorimotor takes a
particular sense and historicizes its formation by means of recent
scientific studies, case studies, or coverage in the media. Ranging
among a diverse array of sensations, including balance, fatigue,
pain, the "muscle sense," and what Maurice Merleau-Ponty termed
"motricity," Paterson's analysis moves outward from the familiar
confines of the laboratory to those of the industrial world and
even to wild animals and their habitats. He uncovers important
stories, such as how forgotten pain-measurement schemes transformed
criminology, or how Penfield's outmoded concepts of the sensory and
motor homunculi of the brain still mar psychology textbooks.
Complete with original archival research featuring illustrations
and correspondence, How We Became Sensorimotor shows how the
shifting and sometimes contested historical background to our
understandings of the senses are being extended even today.
This unique work by the Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR), Cape
Town, South Africa, tracks the progress Africa has made in
achieving the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
since 2000. Thirteen analytical chapters written by scholars and
practitioners with expertise in the various areas covered by the
eight MDGs are organized around the larger themes of political
economy, structural issues, sustainable goals, and human
development goals. They critically assess the progress that Africa
has made towards the achievement of the MDGs, discuss how to
accelerate that progress, and offer alternatives and
recommendations in support of institutions in Africa that are
engaged in promoting the achievement of sustainable development.
Throughout, they examine the role of various actors (including the
African Union; Africa's regional economic communities, the United
Nations, the European Union, etc.), civil society, and other
external development partners in light of their contributions,
shortfalls, and viable options in shaping the continent's
development agenda. Together they provide a unique assessment from
experts on the ground of whether the goals were a success and what
remains to be done to achieve sustainable economic and human
development in Africa.
This unique work by the Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR), Cape
Town, South Africa, tracks the progress Africa has made in
achieving the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
since 2000. Thirteen analytical chapters written by scholars and
practitioners with expertise in the various areas covered by the
eight MDGs are organized around the larger themes of political
economy, structural issues, sustainable goals, and human
development goals. They critically assess the progress that Africa
has made towards the achievement of the MDGs, discuss how to
accelerate that progress, and offer alternatives and
recommendations in support of institutions in Africa that are
engaged in promoting the achievement of sustainable development.
Throughout, they examine the role of various actors (including the
African Union; Africa's regional economic communities, the United
Nations, the European Union, etc.), civil society, and other
external development partners in light of their contributions,
shortfalls, and viable options in shaping the continent's
development agenda. Together they provide a unique assessment from
experts on the ground of whether the goals were a success and what
remains to be done to achieve sustainable economic and human
development in Africa.
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