Shelf Life

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ISBN: 9780521626309

Supermarkets and the Changing Cultures of Consumption

Kim Humphery (University of Melbourne)

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Cambridge University Press
27 July 1998

Society & Social Sciences; Consumerism; Retail sector

Supermarkets, in all their everyday mundanity, embody something of the enormous complexity of living and consuming in late twentieth century western societies. Shelf Life explores the supermarket as a retail space and as an arena of everyday consumption in Australia. It historically situates and critically discusses the everyday food products we buy, the retail environments in which we do so, the attitudes of the retailers who construct such environments, and the diverse ways in which all of us undertake and think about supermarket shopping. Yet this book is more than narrative history. It engages with broader issues of the nature of Australian modernity, the globalisation of retail forms, the connection between consumption and self-autonomy, and the highly gendered nature of retailing and shopping. It interrogates also the work of cultural critics, and questions recent attempts to grasp what it means to consume and to be a 'consumer'.

By: Kim Humphery (University of Melbourne)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 420g
ISBN: 9780521626309
ISBN 10: 0521626307
Pages: 282
Publication Date: 27 July 1998
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction; Part I. Emergent Cultures: 1. The discovery of the consumer; 2. Really modern retailing; Part II. New Worlds: 3. Engineering the shop; 4. She likes to look; 5. Tomorrow's shop today; 6. Living the transformation; Part III. Familiar Places: 7. Magic futures; 8. Strangers in paradise; 9. Theory without footnotes; 10. Towards the exit.