The Politics of Shopping : What Consumers Learn about Identity, Globalization, and Social Change

This revised version of Kaela Jubas’ award winning dissertation focuses on contemporary shopping practices, analyzing the ways concerned shoppers think about globalization, consumption, and their personal effect on the status quo. By using numerous examples from modern advertising, interviews with self-described “radical” shoppers, and selected quotes from scholars and experts, Jubas delves into questions of social justice, environmental awareness, and consumer identity -- all demonstrated by individual choices made at the checkout counter. Employing a variety of qualitativ

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Year of publication:	2010
Authors:	Jubas, Kaela
Publisher:	Walnut Creek : Left Coast Press, Inc
Subject:	Globalisierung \| Globalization \| Konsumentenverhalten \| Consumer behaviour \| Einkaufsverhalten \| Shopping behaviour \| Sozialer Wandel \| Social change
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [gbv.de]

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (321 p.)
Series:	International Institute for Qualitative Methodology series International Institute for Qualitative Methodology Ser.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Interlude I: Images of Promise and Desire; Chapter 1: In the Beginning . . .; Interlude II: Images of Trouble and Critique; Chapter 2: Under the Microscope: Conceptual Map; Interlude III: Shopping for a Dissertation; Chapter 3: Snapping the Picture: Envisioning the Research Project ; Chapter 4: Novel Consumption: Going Shopping and Learning with Fictional Characters ; Interlude IV: A PhD Student, Her Books, and Her Search for a Bookcase; Chapter 5: The Disciplines of Shopping: What Participants Learn to Do ; Interlude V: My Dinner at Moyo's Chapter 6: Growing Up with, Growing Into, Growing Out of: Who Participants Learn to Be Interlude VI: Radical Accidents; Chapter 7: At the Root of It All: How Participants Learn to Make Change ; Interlude VII: Rumours and Queues; Chapter 8: Somewhere around the Middle; References; About the Author Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:	978-1-59874-666-2 ; 978-1-59874-667-9 ; 978-1-59874-666-2
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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