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Excess Author: Kim Humphery
ISBN: 9780745645414 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 224 Published: 6 November 2009 Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 209.51 x 152.16 x 15.83 Description: Over-consumption is one of the key issues of our time; especially in the Western world. Over the past decade, in the face of historically unprecedented levels of consumer spending in the West and the more recent threat of economic recession a vigorous politics of anti-consumerism has emerged in a range of wealthy nations.
This timely and original new book provides a comprehensive overview and analysis of what has come to be called the new politics of consumption; a politics embodied in movements such as culture jamming, simple living, slow food and fair trade. The book offers an examination of anti-consumerism at a time when the idea of consumer excess is being re-framed by global recession, and crucially explores what this means for the future of the debates. Drawing on interviews with activists across three continents, and offering a refreshingly accessible discussion of contemporary commentary and theory, Kim Humphery sympathetically explores anti-consumerism as cultural interpretation, lifestyle change, and collective action.
While analysing the positive advances of the anti-consumerist movement, Excess: Anti-consumerism in the West also c...
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