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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Steven MilesPublisher: Pluto Press Imprint: Pluto Press Weight: 0.415kg ISBN: 9780745338705ISBN 10: 0745338704 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 20 January 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPreface 1. Introducing the Experience Society 2. Consumption, Identity, Experience 3. Leisure and Tourism 4. Work Experience 5. Technologies of Self 6. Space, Place and the Architecture of Experience 7. The Spectacle of Sport 8. The Coffee Shop Experience 9. Consumer Capitalism Rebooted References IndexReviews‘Well written and extensively researched, this book is a must read for anyone seeking to understand the nature of consumption and experience in contemporary society' -- Garry Crawford, co-author of 'Video Games as Culture' 'An enlightening grand tour of the neoliberal experience economy. Probing beneath the ideological rhetoric of self-expressive consumer choices, Miles reveals how the psycho-social effects of the experience economy are governed by new forms of capitalist influence' -- Professor Craig Thompson, the James R. McManus-Bascom Professor in Marketing and the Gilbert and Helen Churchill Professor in the Marketing Department of the Wisconsin School of Business 'Takes us on a powerful analytic journey that exposes the underpinning ideological processes that define who and what we are as citizens of a society driven by consumerism' -- Pauline Maclaran, Professor of Marketing & Consumer Research in the School of Management at Royal Holloway 'An enlightening grand tour of the neoliberal experience economy. Probing beneath the ideological rhetoric of self-expressive consumer choices, Miles reveals how the psycho-social effects of the experience economy are governed by new forms of capitalist influence' -- Professor Craig Thompson, the James R. McManus-Bascom Professor in Marketing and the Gilbert and Helen Churchill Professor in the Marketing Department of the Wisconsin School of Business 'Well written and extensively researched, this book is a must read for anyone seeking to understand the nature of consumption and experience in contemporary society' -- Garry Crawford, co-author of 'Video Games as Culture' 'Takes us on a powerful analytic journey that exposes the underpinning ideological processes that define who and what we are as citizens of a society driven by consumerism' -- Pauline Maclaran, Professor of Marketing & Consumer Research in the School of Management at Royal Holloway 'An enlightening grand tour of the neoliberal experience economy. Probing beneath the ideological rhetoric of self-expressive consumer choices, Miles reveals how the psycho-social effects of the experience economy are governed by new forms of capitalist influence' -- Professor Craig Thompson, the James R. McManus-Bascom Professor in Marketing and the Gilbert and Helen Churchill Professor in the Marketing Department of the Wisconsin School of Business 'Well written and extensively researched, this book is a must read for anyone seeking to understand the nature of consumption and experience in contemporary society' -- Garry Crawford, co-author of 'Video Games as Culture' Author InformationSteven Miles is Professor in Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is the author of five books including, Consumerism as a Way of Life (Sage, 1998) Spaces for Consumption (Sage, 2004) and Retail and the Artifice of Social Change (Routledge, 2016). He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Consumer Culture. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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