Steven Miles is Professor in Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is the author of five books including, Consumerism as a Way of Life (Sage, 1998) Spaces for Consumption (Sage, 2004) and Retail and the Artifice of Social Change (Routledge, 2016). He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Consumer Culture.
‘Well written and extensively researched, this book is a must read for anyone seeking to understand the nature of consumption and experience in contemporary society' -- Garry Crawford, co-author of 'Video Games as Culture' 'An enlightening grand tour of the neoliberal experience economy. Probing beneath the ideological rhetoric of self-expressive consumer choices, Miles reveals how the psycho-social effects of the experience economy are governed by new forms of capitalist influence' -- Professor Craig Thompson, the James R. McManus-Bascom Professor in Marketing and the Gilbert and Helen Churchill Professor in the Marketing Department of the Wisconsin School of Business 'Takes us on a powerful analytic journey that exposes the underpinning ideological processes that define who and what we are as citizens of a society driven by consumerism' -- Pauline Maclaran, Professor of Marketing & Consumer Research in the School of Management at Royal Holloway