Time, consumption and everyday life : practice, materiality and culture /
Contributor(s): Shove, Elizabeth | Trentmann, Frank | Wilk, Richard R.
Series: Cultures of consumption series: Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2009Description: xiii, 236 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781847883643 (paper); 9781847883650:; 1847883648 (paper); 9781847883650 (cloth); 1847883656 (cloth).Subject(s): Time -- Sociological aspects | Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects | Time management -- Social aspectsDDC classification: 306.301Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.