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

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TextSeries: Cultures of consumption seriesPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2009.Description: xiii, 236 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:

1847883648 (paper)
9781847883643 (paper)
9781847883650 (cloth)
1847883656 (cloth)

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DDC classification:

306.3 SHO

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	306.3 SHO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100411595

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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. How do people handle hurriedness, burn-out and stress? Are slower forms of consumption viable? In case studies covering the United States, Asia and Europe, international experts follow routines and rhythms, their emotional and political dynamics and show how they are anchored in material culture and everyday practice. Running themes of the book are questions of coordination and disruption; cycles and seasons; and the interplay between power and freedom, and between material and natural forces. The result is a volume that brings studies of practice, temporality and material culture together to open up a new intellectual agenda.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

List of Tables and Figures (p. vii)
List of Contributors (p. ix)
Acknowledgements (p. xiii)
Introduction (p. 1)
Section I Time, Space and Practice
1 Everyday Practice and the Production and Consumption of Time (p. 17)
2 Time space and the Organization of Social Life (p. 35)
3 Re-ordering Temporal Rhythms: Coordinating Daily Practices in the UK in 1937 and 2000 (p. 49)
Section II Pace and Scale: Temporal Order and Disruption
4 Disruption is Normal: Blackouts, Breakdowns and the Elasticity of Everyday Life (p. 67)
5 My Soul for a Seat: Commuting and the Routines of Mobility (p. 85)
6 Routines - Made and Unmade (p. 99)
Section III Rhythms, Patterns and Temporal Cycles of Consumption
7 Calendars and Clocks: Cycles of Horticultural Commerce in Nineteenth-Century America (p. 115)
8 Fads, Fashions and 'Real' Innovations: Novelties and Social Change (p. 129)
9 The Edge of Agency. Routines, Habits and Volition (p. 143)
Section IV The Temporalities of Stuff
10 Buying Time (p. 157)
11 Seasonal and Commercial Rhythms of Domestic Consumption: A Japanese Case Study (p. 171)
12 Special and Ordinary Times: Tea in Motion (p. 189)
13 Making Time: Reciprocal Object Relations and the Self-legitimizing Time of Wooden Boating (p. 203)
14 The Ethics of Routine: Consciousness, Tedium and Value (p. 217)
Index (p. 231)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Elizabeth Shove is Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University. Frank Trentmann is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. Richard Wilk is Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at Indiana university