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The consumer society and the postmodern city /

Working through the often controversial ideas of the consumer society's most influential theorists, Jean Baudrillard and Zygmunt Bauman, this book assesses the ways in which consumerism is reshaping the nature and meaning of the city.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Clarke, David B., 1964-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
Subjects:
Consumption (Economics) > Social aspects.
Consumer behavior.
Capitalism.
City and town life > Social aspects.
capitalism.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:0203414144
9780203414149
0203414365
9780203414361
9786610050390
6610050392
1134627947
9781134627943
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Consumption controversies
  • Everything you ever wanted to know about consumption, (but were afraid to ask Baudrillard)
  • Consumption and the city, modern and postmodern
  • Seduced and repressed : collective consumption revisited / with Michael G. Bradford
  • The meaning of lifestyle
  • Minimal utopia.

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