Consuming Cultures : Power and Resistance (Paperback)

List of Illustrations and Photographs List of Contributors Acknowledgements Consuming Cultures: Power and Resistance; J.Hearn and S.Roseneil SECTION I: HOMES AND HOUSEHOLDS, PLACES AND SPACES The 'Young Consumer' at Home: Dependence, Resistance and Autonomy; G.Jones and C.D.Martin 'We've Got Friends Who Live in Council Houses': Power and Resistance in Home Ownership; G.Gurney The Ideal Home Exhibition: an Analysis of Constraints and Conventions in Consumer Choice in British Homes; T.Chapman Power and Resistance Around the Dinner Table; L.Martens and A.Warde Marginalisation and Resistance Through the Prism of Retirement; M.Thorpe The 'Local' versus the 'Global'? - 'Individualized Milieux' in a complex 'Risk Society'. The Case of Organic Food Box Schemes in the South West; J.D rrschmidt SECTION II: TECHNOLOGIES OF CONSUMPTION AND WASTE Photography, Power and Resistance: the Case of Health and Medicine; B.Harrison and K.Aranda 'It was the Way We were Watching it': Young Men Negotiate Pornography; R.Thomson The Dialectics of Walking: Walkman Use and the Reconstruction of the Site of Experience; M.Bull The Mediated 'Interaction Order'; S.Moores Junk Mail and Consumer Freedom: Resistance, Transgression and Reward in the Panoptical Gaze; G.Reynolds and C.Alferoff Rubbish-Power: Towards a Sociology of the Rubbish Society; M.O'Brien Index