Time, consumption and everyday life : practice, materiality and culture

Label

Time, consumption and everyday life : practice, materiality and culture

Title remainder

practice, materiality and culture

Statement of responsibility

edited by Elizabeth Shove, Frank Trentmann and Richard Wilk

Contributor

• Shove, Elizabeth, 1959-
• Wilk, Richard R
• Trentmann, Frank

Subject

• Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects
• Time -- Sociological aspects
• Time management -- Social aspects

Language

eng

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. It also looks at questions of coordination and disruption; cycles and seasons; and the interplay between power and freedom

Member of

• Cultures of consumption series

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

306.301

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

HM656

LC item number

.T545 2009eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Cultures of consumption series,