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The politics of consumption

conferenceThe politics of consumption9 May 2012 to 11 May 2012  This conference explores the relationships between consumption, accumulation, production, reproduction and politics today. Taking the...

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The politics of consumption

This age of austerity comes on the back of a lengthened period of apparently rampant consumer excess: that was a party for which we are all now having to pay. A spectacular period of unsustainably...

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The politics of consumption

If Politics, following Aristotle (1984), is a matter of analysing, comparing and ultimately creating practices of human association, we will do well to regard consumption practices as inherently...

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Communicity

The Idea of communism, as Alain Badiou (2008: 98) explains, is an historical anchoring point ‘of everything elusive, slippery and evanescent’, a becoming-truth that negates capitalism, the institutions...

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Consumption of work and the work of consumption

Consumption of work and the work of consumptionsubmission deadline  30 Sep 2014call for papers pdf  CfPConsumption of work.pdfIssue Editors: Ekaterina Chertkovskaya, Rashné Limki and Bernadette...

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The magic of ethical brands: Interpassivity and the thievish joy of delegated...

The triumph of advertising in the culture industry is that consumers feel compelled to buy and use its products even though they see through them. (Horkheimer and Adorno, 1989: 167)

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The slippery relationship between brand ethic and profit

Introduction: The complex nature of ethics

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Organizing for the post-growth economy

Organizing for the post-growth economysubmission deadline  30 Sep 2014call for papers pdf  CfPPost-growth.pdfIssue Editors: Ole Bjerg, Christian Garmann Johnsen, Bent Meier Sørensen and Lena...

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The falling rate of enjoyment: Consumer capitalism and compulsive buying...

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Farewell to consumerism: Countervailing logics of growth in consumption

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Saving time, saving money, saving the planet, ‘one gift at a time’: A...

IntroductionLast week a man in a hatchback came to collect a big, half-broken ‘four-by-twelve’ speaker cabinet that, for the past five years, had served as a makeshift shelf for our recycling boxes. It...

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