Citizenship and Consumption

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This book provides a timely forum for current thinking on consumption and citizenship, exploring overlaps, interactions and tensions between them.

List of Plates	p. vii
List of Figure and Table	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Notes on Contributors	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
Retrieval	p. 17
Civic Choices: Retrieving Perspectives on Rationality, Consumption, and Citizenship	p. 19
Consumption and Politics in Twentieth-Century China	p. 34
Sartorial Manoeuvres in the Dusk: Blue Jeans in Socialist Hungary	p. 51
Talk and Action	p. 69
Consuming Without Paying: Stealing or Campaigning? The Civic Implications of Civil Disobedience Around Access to Water	p. 71
The Banality of Consumption	p. 87
'Public Connection' and the Uncertain Norms of Media Consumption	p. 104
The Moral Force of Consumption and Capitalism: Anti-slavery and Anti-sweatshop	p. 121
Prospects	p. 137
Exit Homo Politicus, Enter Homo Consumens	p. 139
Consumer Citizenship in Post-national Constellations?	p. 154
Sustainability, Well-Being and Consumption: The Limits of Hedonic Approaches	p. 172
'Alternative Hedonism' and the Citizen-Consumer	p. 191
Notes	p. 206
Index	p. 235
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