Retail and the Artifice of Social Change

ISBN-13: 9780367869731 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 168 str.

Steven Miles

Opis

Retail has an increasingly powerful impact on our everyday experience of the world. In Retail and Social Change, Steven Miles interrogates the changing role of retail, in its material and virtual forms, as a lens through which we can understand what it means to be a citizen of a consumer society.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. The Individualised Consumer  3. Shopping for Identity  4. Whatever Happened to the City?  5. The Supermarket  6. Out-of-Town Retail  7. Experiential Retail  8. Tourism and Authenticity  9. Retail Online  10. Conclusion: The Artifice of Social Change

O autorze

Steven Miles is Professor of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is the author of Consumerism as a Way of Life (1998, Sage), Youth Lifestyles in a Changing World (2000) (OUP), Social Theory in the Real　World　(2002, Sage) and, Spaces for Consumption: Pleasure and Placelessness in the Post-Industrial City　(2010, Sage). Steven is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Consumer Culture.