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Author: Cecilia Solér
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.453kg
ISBN: 9780367248024
ISBN 10: 0367248026
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 10 June 2019
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
"""Those concerned with sustainability and consumption have neglected the underlying compulsion to consume, and how it becomes a learned and habituated feature of contemporary life. This intriguing and provocative book sheds important new light on the stress of affluent consumption and the dysfunction that gives rise to it. This book is guaranteed to make you think again."" — Peter Wells, Professor of Business and Sustainability, Cardiff Business School, UK ""Cecilia Solér has produced a thoughtful short volume for Routledge entitled, Stress, Affluence and Sustainable Consumption that opens up this repressed neurotic side of consumer selfhood. In my reading Solér contributes to the Maussian project of evaluating the existential consequences of market mediated consumer culture. In addition, she offers an extended exegesis of the fundamental Lacanian neurosis that this unsustainable mode of living imposes upon us all. All in all a thought-provoking and enjoyable read that takes consumption neurosis seriously as a constituent of consumer culture, and invites us to link our experiences of everyday neurotic stress and anxiety to sociological causes and environmental consequences endemic in consumer culture. A useful book for marketing ethicists, for consumer culture theorists, for students of positive psychology, and those looking for alternatives to the vicious cycle of affluence, stress, and (over-) consumption."" - Eric J. Arnould, Aalto University Business School ""This book discusses (un)sustainable consumption from a stress perspective, adding an embodied understanding to the sustainability-related consumption challenges that we face today. A stress perspective on affluent consumption differs from current understandings on consumption, as it fully acknowledges the consumer as having a body (including a mind) that reacts to the numerous product offerings and retail spaces, both physical and online."" - Lucia A. Reisch Journal of Consumer Policy"
Those concerned with sustainability and consumption have neglected the underlying compulsion to consume, and how it becomes a learned and habituated feature of contemporary life. This intriguing and provocative book sheds important new light on the stress of affluent consumption and the dysfunction that gives rise to it. This book is guaranteed to make you think again. - Peter Wells, Professor of Business and Sustainability, Cardiff Business School, UK Cecilia Soler has produced a thoughtful short volume for Routledge entitled, Stress, Affluence and Sustainable Consumption that opens up this repressed neurotic side of consumer selfhood. In my reading Soler contributes to the Maussian project of evaluating the existential consequences of market mediated consumer culture. In addition, she offers an extended exegesis of the fundamental Lacanian neurosis that this unsustainable mode of living imposes upon us all. All in all a thought-provoking and enjoyable read that takes consumption neurosis seriously as a constituent of consumer culture, and invites us to link our experiences of everyday neurotic stress and anxiety to sociological causes and environmental consequences endemic in consumer culture. A useful book for marketing ethicists, for consumer culture theorists, for students of positive psychology, and those looking for alternatives to the vicious cycle of affluence, stress, and (over-) consumption. - Eric J. Arnould, Aalto University Business School This book discusses (un)sustainable consumption from a stress perspective, adding an embodied understanding to the sustainability-related consumption challenges that we face today. A stress perspective on affluent consumption differs from current understandings on consumption, as it fully acknowledges the consumer as having a body (including a mind) that reacts to the numerous product offerings and retail spaces, both physical and online. - Lucia A. Reisch Journal of Consumer Policy
Author Information
Cecilia Solér is Associate Professor in Marketing at the School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
