Time, consumption and everyday life : practice, materiality and culture / edited by Elizabeth Shove, Frank Trentmann and Richard Wilk.

Date:
2013
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Description

Has material civilization spun out of control, becoming too fast for our own well-being and that of the planet? This book confronts these anxieties and examines the changing rhythms and temporal organization of everyday life.

Publication/Creation

London ; New York : Bloomsbury, 2013.

Physical description

xiii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Notes

First published in 2009 by Berg. Reprinted by Bloomsbury Academic 2013.

Contents

Everyday practice and the production and consumption of time / Elizabeth Shove -- Timespace and the organization of social life / Ted Schatzki -- Re-ordering temporal rhythms : coordinating daily practices in the UK in 1937 and 2000 / Dale Southerton -- Disruption is normal : blackouts, breakdowns and the elasticity of everyday life / Frank Trentmann -- My soul for a seat : commuting and the routines of mobility / Tom O'Dell -- Routines : made and unmade / Billy Ehn and Orvar Löfgren -- Calendars and clocks : cycles of horticultural commerce in nineteenth-century America / Marina Moskowitz -- Fads, fashions and 'real' innovation : novelties and social change / Jukka Gronow -- The edge of agency : routine, habits and volition / Richard Wilk -- Buying time / Daniel Miller -- Seasonal and commercial rhythms of domestic consumption : a Japanese case study / Inge Daniels -- Special and ordinary times : tea in motion / Güliz Ger and Olga Kravets -- Making time : reciprocal object relations and the self-legitimizing time of wooden boating / Mikko Jalas -- The ethics of routine : consciousness, tedium and value / Don Slater.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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    History of Medicine
    PQZ.F.AA9
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ISBN

  • 9781847883643
  • 1847883648
  • 9781847883650
  • 1847883656