How the Shopping Cart Explains Global Consumerism

Andrew Warnes

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University of California Press
29 January 2019

Consumerism; Anthropology

Picture a familiar scene: long lines of shoppers waiting to check out at the grocery store, carts filled to the brim with the week’s food. While many might wonder what is in each cart, Andrew Warnes implores us to consider the symbolism of the cart itself. In his inventive new book, Warnes examines how the everyday shopping cart is connected to a complex web of food production and consumption that has spread from the United States throughout the world. Today, shopping carts represent choice and autonomy for consumers, a recognizable American way of life that has become a global phenomenon. This succinct and and accessible book provides an excellent overview of consumerism and the globalization of American culture.

By: Andrew Warnes
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 318g
ISBN: 9780520295285
ISBN 10: 0520295285
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 29 January 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Illustrations Entrance 1. Inside Views 2. Aristocratic Baskets 3. In the Supermarket 4. The Late Cart 5. Carts Unchained Exit Notes Acknowledgments Bibliography Index

Andrew Warnes is a Reader in American Studies at the University of Leeds. He is the author of American Tantalus: Horizons, Happiness, and the Impossible Pursuits of US Literature and Culture and Savage Barbecue: Race, Culture, and the Invention of America’s First Food, among other books.

Reviews for How the Shopping Cart Explains Global Consumerism

Warnes shows us how globalization, mechanized farming, refrigeration, and mass consumerism affect the way world consumers shop for food in supermarkets and how the global industrial food system encourages consumers to overeat. * Gastronomica *