Civics, Consumption - Economics

Citizenship and Consumption

Name: Citizenship and Consumption
Author: Kate Soper
ISBN: 9780230553460

by Kate Soper (Editor), Frank Trentmann

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Overview

The book provides a timely forum for current thinking on consumption and citizenship, exploring overlaps, interactions and tensions between them.

Synopsis

The book provides a timely forum for current thinking on consumption and citizenship, exploring overlaps, interactions and tensions between them.

About the Author, Kate Soper

KATE SOPER is a Professor of Philosophy in the Institute for the Study of European Transformations at London Metropolitan University, UK. She is well known for her work on the philosophy of nature and as a theorist of need and consumption, and has recently completed a research project on 'Alternative hedonism' in the ESRC/AHRC 'Cultures of Consumption' Programme. In addition to this volume, she is a co-editor (with Lyn Thomas and Martin Ryle) of Counter-Consumerism and its Pleasures (forthcoming). FRANK TRENTMANN is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. Recent publications include Consuming Cultures, Global Perspectives, edited with John Brewer (2006) and Free Trade Nation: Commerce, Consumption and Civil Society in Modern Britain (2008).