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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 impact of 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 a global economic downturn, and crucially explores what this means for the future of political debate. 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. Whilst analysing the positive advances of the anti-consumerist movement, Excess also challenges contemporary critical thinking on consumption, taking issue with the return to theories of mass culture in contemporary anti-consumerist polemic. Alternatively, Humphery begins to forge a politics of anti-consumerism that addresses the complexity of material acquisition and which avoids treating consumers as mere dupes in the logic of capitalism, viewing them instead as active participants in a culture which is capable of transformation. -- Publisher description.

National consumption --- Consumption (Economics) --- Social aspects. --- Consumption (Economics). --- Social aspects --- Consumption (Economics) - Social aspects

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Ce livre, résolument à contre-courant, montre comment la contre-culture n'a pas seulement été inefficace dans sa lutte contre le capitalisme, mais comment elle lui a fait faire ses plus grands bonds en avant.

Consumption (Economics) --- Marketing --- Advertising --- Counterculture --- Social aspects --- Contre-culture. --- Consumption (Economics) - Social aspects --- Marketing - Social aspects --- Advertising - Social aspects

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Consumption (Economics) --- Consumers' preferences --- Consommation (Economie politique) --- Consommateurs --- Préférences --- Consumers --- Consumer behavior --- Social aspects --- Attitudes --- Préférences --- Consumption (Economics) - Social aspects --- Consumers - Attitudes

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Consuming Motherhood addresses the provocative question of how motherhood and consumption―as ideologies and as patterns of social action―mutually shape and constitute each other in contemporary North American and European social life. Ideologically, motherhood and consumption are often constructed in opposition to each other, with motherhood standing in as a naturalized social relation that is thought to be uniquely free of the calculating instrumentality that dominates commercial relations. Yet, in social life, motherhood and consumption are inseparable. Whether shopping for children’s clothing or childbirth services, or making decisions about adopting children, becoming a mother (and maternal practice more generally) is deeply influenced by consumption. How can the relationship between motherhood and consumption be revealed, and critically analyzed? Consuming Motherhood brings together a group of sociologists, anthropologists, and religious studies scholars to address this question through carefully grounded ethnographic studies. This insightful book reveals how mothers negotiate the contradictory forces that position them as both immune from and the target of consumerist tendencies in contemporary global society.

Motherhood --- Consumption (Economics) --- Women consumers --- Social aspects --- Motherhood. --- Women consumers. --- Social aspects. --- Consumption (Economics) - Social aspects --- Maternité --- Consommation --- Consommatrices --- Aspect social

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'Because you're worth it', proclaims the classic cosmetics ad. 'Just do it!' implores the global sports retailer. Everywhere we turn, we are constantly encouraged to experience as much as possible, for as long as possible, in as many ways as possible. FOMO - Fear of Missing Out - has become a central preoccupation in a world fixated on the never-ending pursuit of gratification and self-fulfilment. But this pursuit can become a treadmill leading nowhere. How can we break out of it? In this refreshing book, bestselling Danish philosopher and psychologist Svend Brinkmann reveals the many virtues of missing out on the constant choices and temptations that dominate our experience-obsessed consumer society. By cultivating self-restraint and celebrating moderation we can develop a more fulfilling way of living that enriches ourselves and our fellow humans and protects the planet we all share - in short, we can discover the joy of missing out.

Moderation. --- Self-control. --- Consumption (Economics) --- Excess (Philosophy) --- Social aspects. --- Gelukkig zijn --- Levenskunst --- stress --- Bee Collection --- Moderation --- Self-control --- Social aspects --- Consumption (Economics) - Social aspects