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Draws on a number of contemporary theories and debates in media and cultural studies, including reflexivity, cultural economies and ethics. This work examines contemporary radical consumption, analyses its possibilities and problems, mobile moralities, methods of mediation and its connections to cultural formations of production and politics.

Culture --- Consumption (Economics) --- Sustainable development --- Environmentalism --- Green products. --- Consumer protection. --- Economic aspects. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Consumerism --- Protection, Consumer --- Earth-friendly products --- Environmentally safe products --- Environmental movement --- Development, Sustainable --- Ecologically sustainable development --- Economic development, Sustainable --- Economic sustainability --- ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) --- Smart growth --- Sustainable economic development --- Consumer demand --- Consumer spending --- Spending, Consumer --- Environmental aspects --- Commercial policy --- Commercial products --- Green marketing --- Recycled products --- Social movements --- Anti-environmentalism --- Sustainable living --- Economic development --- Demand (Economic theory) --- Green products --- Consumer protection --- Social aspects --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Economic aspects --- E-books --- Social ethics --- Consumer behavior --- Sociology of culture --- Greenwashing

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In this book Jo Littler argues that meritocracy is the key cultural means of legitimation for contemporary neoliberal culture – and that whilst it promises opportunity, it in fact creates new forms of social division. Against Meritocracy is split into two parts. Part I explores the genealogies of meritocracy within social theory, political discourse and working cultures. It traces the dramatic U-turn in meritocracy’s meaning, from socialist slur to a contemporary ideal of how a society should be organised. Part II uses a series of case studies to analyse the cultural pull of popular ‘parables of progress’, from reality TV to the super-rich and celebrity CEOs, from social media controversies to the rise of the ‘mumpreneur’. Paying special attention to the role of gender, ‘race’ and class, this book provides new conceptualisations of the meaning of meritocracy in contemporary culture and society.

Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Plutocracy. --- Power (Social sciences). --- Social mobility.

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While 'social inclusion' and 'cultural diversity' circulate frenetically as buzzwords, are we really ready to accept that ideas about 'race' and 'ethnicity', rather than being a peripheral concern, are at the core of how a nation's heritage is represented and imagined?This book interrogates just whose past gets to count as part of 'British heritage'. Bringing together a wide range of contributors, including academics, practitioners, policy makers and curators, it examines how many different of types of heritage - from football to stately homes, experience attractions to education - deal wi

Great Britain --- England --- Ethnic relations. --- Politics and government. --- Race relations. --- Politics and government --- Sociology of minorities --- History of civilization --- museology --- cultural heritage --- cultureel erfgoed --- museumkunde --- mensenrassen --- holocaust

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The Care Manifesto puts care at the heart of the debates of our current crisis: from intimate care--childcare, healthcare, elder care--to care for the natural world. We live in a world where carelessness reigns, but it does not have to be this way.The Care Manifesto puts forth a vision for a truly caring world. The authors want to reimagine the role of care in our everyday lives, making it the organising principle in every dimension and at every scale of life. We are all dependent on each other, and only by nurturing these interdependencies can we cultivate a world in which each and every one of us can not only live but thrive.The Care Manifesto demands that we must put care at the heart of the state and the economy. A caring government must promote collective joy, not the satisfaction of individual desire. This means the transformation of how we organise work through co-operatives, localism and nationalisation. It proposes the expansion of our understanding of kinship for a more 'promiscuous care'. It calls for caring places through the reclamation of public space, to make a more convivial city. It sets out an agenda for the environment, most urgent of all, putting care at the centre of our relationship to the natural world.

Cooperation --- Economics --- welzijnsbeleid --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Social sciences --- Economic man --- Collaborative economy --- Cooperative distribution --- Cooperative movement --- Distribution, Cooperative --- Peer-to-peer economy --- Sharing economy --- Profit-sharing --- 361.01 --- Common good. --- Cooperation. --- Economics. --- Mutualism. --- Political science. --- Public interest. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. --- economics. --- Économie politique.