Table of Contents

Introduction: What is consumer culture?
Chapter 1 Material Culture and Consumer Culture
Chapter 2 Exchanging things: the economy and culture
Chapter 3 Objects, subjects and signs
Chapter 4 Capital, class and consumer culture
Chapter 5 Circuits of culture: gender, race and reflexivity
Chapter 6 Brands: markets, media and movement
Chapter 7 Consuming ethics, or What goes around, comes around
Chapter 8 Consumer Culture, Identity and Politics: when are you (not) a consumer?
Bibliography

About the Author

CeliaLury is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University ofLondon

Reviews

"In a now vast literature Celia Lury's new edition standsout for its clarity and critical intelligence. In addition tooffering a a guide through the thicket of new and old approaches,this book provides readers with a map to explore how consumptionshapes personal and group identities." Frank Trentmann, Birkbeck College