What happens when ‘life’s simple joys’ become complicated? When pleasure is transformed as a function of consumption, the innocent comforts of food, nature and place are embedded in complex practices
Prolific writer Ginzburg's (U. of California-Los Angeles) primary message here is that familiarity, which is in the last analysis bound up with cultural belonging, cannot be a criterion of what is rel
This volume casts a critical eye on representations and practices of consumption in the Western world. It offers a unique contemporary perspective on the themes of counter-consumerism, ecological cris
