Intimacies, critical consumption and diverse economies /
[Book]
edited by Emma Casey and Yvette Taylor
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1 online resource (xii, 235 pages) :
illustrations
Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
Includes bibliographical references and index
Collective action and domestic practies: Englad in the 1830s and 1840s -- Buying the ties that bind: consumption, care and intimate investment among transnational households in highland Ecuador -- Interconnectivities and material agencies: consumption, fashion, and intimacy in Zhu Tiawen's 'Fin-de-Siecle Splendor' -- 'Sticky' and shifting sites of intimate consumption -- 'My bedroom is me': young people, private space, consumption and the family home -- The transgressive potential of families in commercial homes -- Belonging in difficult family circumstances: emotions intimacies and consumption -- 'You're not going out dressed like that!': lessons in fashion consumption, taste and calss -- The intimate social life of commodities -- Pretty pants and office pants: making home, identity and belonging in a workplace -- Buying for baby: how middle-class mothers negotiate risk with second-hand goods -- The hidden lives of domestic things: accumulations in cupboards, lofts, and shelvees
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This collection explores the relationships between the emotional and material, engaging with and developing the debates surrounding the emotional and material labour involved in producing and reproducing domestic and intimate spaces. The contributions examine the geographies and spaces of consumption in international and local-global spheres