Consumption and Its Consequences Miller Daniel
Consumption and Its Consequences Miller Daniel This is a book for those looking for different answers to some of today's most fundamental questions. Does being a consumer make us less authentic or…
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Consumption and Its Consequences Miller Daniel
This is a book for those looking for different answers to some of today's most fundamental questions. Does being a consumer make us less authentic or more materialistic? What is a consumer society?
How should we understand the economy? How and why do we shop? Is our seemingly insatiable desire for goods destroying the planet?
Can we reconcile curbs on consumption with goals such as reducing poverty and social inequality?Miller responds to these questions by proposing feasible and, where possible, currently available alternatives, drawn mainly from his own original ethnographic research. Here you will find shopping analysed as a technology of love, clothing that sidesteps politics in tackling issues of immigration. There is an alternative theory of value that does not assume the economy is intelligent, scientific, moral or immoral.
We see Coca-Cola as an example of