ABSTRACT
Consumption research is burgeoning across a wide range of disciplines. The Routledge Handbook on Consumption gathers experts from around the world to provide a nuanced overview of the latest scholarship in this expanding field. At once ambitious and timely, the volume provides an ideal map for those looking to position their work, find new analytic insights and identify research gaps. With an intuitive thematic structure and resolutely international outlook, it engages with theory and methodology; markets and businesses; policies, politics and the state; and culture and everyday life. It will be essential reading for students and scholars across the social and economic sciences.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|9 pages
Consumption research revisited
part I|46 pages
Theoretical and methodological perspectives on consumption
part II|59 pages
Consumers and markets
chapter 8|11 pages
From production and consumption to prosumption
part III|62 pages
Global challenges in consumption
part IV|75 pages
Politics and policies of consumption
part V|84 pages
Consumption and social divisions
part VI|66 pages
Contested consumption
part VII|72 pages
Culture, media and consumption