Commercial Cultures: Economies, Practices, Spaces

Author:   Daniel Miller ,  Frank Mort ,  Michelle Lowe ,  Peter Jackson
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Volume:   v. 2
ISBN:  

9781859733820


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   01 October 2000
Format:   Paperback
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Why do fashion houses pay exorbitant rents for retail space in London and New York from which they sell very few clothes? Why are some mothers happy to buy and sell children's clothes from charity shops and thrift stores while others insist on the latest brand names for their children? What does the commercial success of men's lifestyle magazines tell us about contemporary gender relations and identities? This book provides answers to these and other questions about contemporary commercial culture through historically specific, theoretically informed, empirically grounded interdisciplinary research.From shopping malls, supermarkets, and fashion retailers, through the marketing and consumption of food, books and magazines, to sex pics on the internet, contributors overturn the assumption that it is commerce that works by logical economic models while ‘culture' is invoked to explain the behaviour of the irrational consumer. In proposing a new agenda for understanding the complex relationship between commerce and culture, the book focuses on the point of articulation between commercial enterprises, which are designed to sell goods, and consumers, who purchase goods, to arrive at a broader understanding of the commercial cultures within which both enterprises and consumers operate.Spanning history, geography, business studies, sociology and anthropology, contributors work in a positive and complementary fashion to give the kinds of insights into the economies, practices and spaces of commercial culture that single disciplines rarely achieve.

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Author:   Daniel Miller ,  Frank Mort ,  Michelle Lowe ,  Peter Jackson
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Berg Publishers
Volume:   v. 2
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.432kg
ISBN:  

9781859733820


ISBN 10:   1859733824
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   01 October 2000
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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'(This book) resonates with the general attitude of questioning generalizations and throws light on less obvious topics ... fascinating.' Enterprise and Society


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Peter Jackson Professor of Human Geography,University of Sheffield Michelle Lowe Senior Lecturer in Geography, University of Southampton Daniel Miller Professor of Anthropology, University College London. Recent books include 'A Theory of Shopping','The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach' (with Don Slater) and Ed. 'Car Cultures'. Frank Mort Professor of Cultural History and Director of

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