The Unmanageable Consumer: Contemporary Consumption and Its Fragmentation
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Consumption and concepts of the consumer sit at the centre of numerous current debates - academic, political and environmental. This highly readable and stimulating book - a tour-de-force in the breadth of its coverage and analysis - shows how different traditions of thought have constructed different representations of the consumer. Each of these has its own coherence but rarely addresses alternative positions. A key concern of the authors is to identify, disentangle and juxtapose approaches to contemporary consumption which are seldom found in a single text. Yiannis Gabriel and Tim Lang present a number of distinctive portraits of the consumer - as Chooser; as Communicator; as Identity-seeker; as Explorer; as Hedo
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:080397745X
ISBN13:9780803977457
Release Date:November 1995
Publisher:Sage Publications Ltd
Length:224 Pages
Weight:0.81 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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