Notes on Contributors | p. vii |
Introduction: The Mainstreaming of Counter-Consumerist Concern | p. 1 |
Texts and Representations | |
Representing Consumers: Contesting Claims and Agendas | p. 25 |
The Past, the Future and the Golden Age: Some Contemporary Versions of Pastoral | p. 43 |
Ecochic: Green Echoes and Rural Retreats in Contemporary Lifestyle Magazines | p. 59 |
Mediated Culture and Exemptionalism | p. 74 |
Value, Hedonism, Critique | |
The Bohemian Habitus: New Social Theory and Political Consumerism | p. 93 |
Sustainable Hedonism: The Pleasures of Living within Environmental Limits | p. 113 |
Green Pleasures | p. 130 |
Everyday Consumption | |
Happiness and the Consumption of Mobility | p. 157 |
Gendering Anti-Consumerism: Alternative Genealogies, Consumer Whores and the Role of Ressentiment | p. 171 |
Growing Sustainable Consumption Communities: The Case of Local Organic Food Networks | p. 188 |
Conclusion | |
Conclusion | p. 209 |
Index | p. 213 |
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