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Consuming passions

Consumer pleasures - Laurie Taylor explores the place of shopping in our lives, as well as within sociological thought. He's joined by Professor Colin Campbell, Dr Kate Soper and Professor Rachel Bowlby. Revised repeat.

Producer: Jayne Egerton

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Wed 18 Dec 2019 16:00

Rachel Bowlby

Professor of Comparitive Literature at University College, London〶Ä

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Just Looking: Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing and Zola

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN-10: 0415572797

ISBN-13: 978-0415572798

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Carried Away: The invention of modern shopping

Publisher: Faber and Faber

ISBN-10: 0571193072

ISBN-13: 978-0571193073

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Shopping with Freud

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN-10: 0415060079

ISBN-13: 978-0415060073

Colin Campbell

Emeritus professor in the Department of Sociology, University of York

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The Romantic Ethic And The Spirit Of Modern Consumerism

Publisher: WritersPrintShop

ISBN-10: 1904623336

ISBN-13: 978-1904623335

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The Shopping Experience

Edited by Pasi Falk & Colin B Campbell

Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd

ISBN-10: 0761950672

ISBN-13: 978-0761950677

Kate Soper

Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at London Metropolitan University

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The Politics and Pleasures of Consuming Differently

Edited by Kate Soper, Martin Ryle & Lyn Thomas

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

ISBN-10: 0230537286

ISBN-13: 978-0230537286

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Citizenship and Consumption

Edited by Professor Kate Soper & Dr Frank Trentmann

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

ISBN-10: 023055346X

ISBN-13: 978-0230553460

Further reading

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The Ladies’ Paradise

Publisher: General Books LLC

ISBN-10: 0217953638

ISBN-13: 978-0217953634

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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of capitalism

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

ISBN-10: 1481050583

ISBN-13: 978-1481050586

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  • Wed 2 Jan 2013 16:00
  • Mon 7 Jan 2013 00:15
  • Wed 18 Dec 2019 16:00

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