Intimacies, Critical Consumption and Diverse Economies - (Palgrave MacMillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life) by Yvette Taylor & Emma Casey

Book Synopsis

This collection explores the relationships between the emotional and material, engaging with and developing the debates surrounding the emotional and material labour involved in producing and reproducing domestic and intimate spaces. The contributions examine the geographies and spaces of consumption in international and local-global spheres.

Review Quotes

'This is a really superb and original collection of essays and articles. Under the umbrella of critical consumption studies, the book brings together scholars from a range of disciplines whose rigorous research and conceptual insight opens up new avenues for understanding how families and young people, especially those from disadvantaged social groups are forced to negotiate pathways through "austerity times", without losing attachment to the emotional life of objects and items. This is a volume which will be remarkably useful to academics and students alike across the arts, humanities and social sciences.'

-Angela McRobbie, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

About the Author

Emma-Jayne Abbots, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK. Katherine Appleford, Kingston University, UK. Colin Creighton, University of Hull, UK. Rachel Hurdley, Cardiff University, UK. Siân Lincoln, Liverpool John Moores University, UK. C. Laura Lovin, London South Bank University, UK. Julie Seymour, Hull York Medical School, UK. Emma Waight, University of Southampton, UK. Sarah Wilson, University of Stirling, UK. Sophie Woodward, University of Manchester, UK.