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The social life of unsustainable mass consumption / Magnus Boström.
Lippincott Library HC79.C6 B678 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boström, Magnus, author.
- Series:
- Environment and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Consumption (Economics).
- Physical Description:
- xxxi, 213 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2023]
- Summary:
- "This book explores and explains unsustainable mass consumption in affluent contexts by stressing the social nature of consumption"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the social roots of ecologically destructive consumerism
- Social relations, everyday rituals, and consumerism
- Social comparison and consumerism in stratified social life
- The temporalities of mass consumption in social life: a lost future
- Sites of consumption: the home, the mall, the internet
- The social stock of (not) knowing: normalization and ignorance of unsustainable mass consumption
- Conclusion: a collective detox from consumerism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Boström, Magnus. Social life of unsustainable mass consumption
- ISBN:
- 9781666902440
- 1666902446
- OCLC:
- 1391975939
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