Time, consumption and everyday life : practice, materiality and culture / edited by Elizabeth Shove, Frank Trentmann and Richard Wilk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shove, Elizabeth, 1959-

Trentmann, Frank.

Wilk, Richard R.

Series:

Cultures of consumption series, 1744-5876.

Cultures of consumption series, 1744-5876

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time--Sociological aspects.

Time.

Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects.

Consumption (Economics).

Time management--Social aspects.

Time management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Has material civilization spun out of control, becoming too fast for our own well-being and that of the planet? This book confronts these anxieties and examines the changing rhythms and temporal organization of everyday life. How do people handle hurriedness, burn-out and stress? Are slower forms of consumption viable? This volume brings together international experts from geography, sociology, history, anthropology and philosophy. In case studies covering the United States, Asia and Europe, contributors follow routines and rhythms, their emotional and political dynamics and show how they are anchored in material culture and everyday practice. Running themes of the book are questions of coordination and disruption; cycles and seasons; and the interplay between power and freedom, and between material and natural forces. The result is a volume that brings studies of practice, temporality and material culture together to open up a new intellectual agenda.

Contents:

Everyday practice and the production and consumption of time / Elizabeth Shove

Timespace and the organization of social life / Ted Schatzki

Re-ordering temporal rhythms : coordinating daily practices in the UK in 1937 and 2000 / Dale Southerton

Disruption is normal : blackouts, breakdowns and the elasticity of everyday life / Frank Trentmann

My soul for a seat : commuting and the routines of mobility / Tom O'Dell

Routines : made and unmade / Billy Ehn and Orvar Löfgren

Calendars and clocks : cycles of horticultural commerce in nineteenth-century America / Marina Moskowitz

Fads, fashions and 'real' innovation : novelties and social change / Jukka Gronow

The edge of agency : routine, habits and volition / Richard Wilk

Buying time / Daniel Miller

Seasonal and commercial rhythms of domestic consumption : a Japanese case study / Inge Daniels

Special and ordinary times : tea in motion / Güliz Ger and Olga Kravets

Making time : reciprocal object relations and the self-legitimizing time of wooden boating / Mikko Jalas

The ethics of routine : consciousness, tedium and value / Don Slater.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612286209

9781003087236

100308723X

9781000181470

1000181472

9781000184655

100018465X

9781474215862

1474215866

9781847886248

1847886248

9781282286207

128228620X

9781847885937

1847885934

OCLC:

893334903