Time, Consumption and the Coordination of Everyday Life
Time pressure, speed and the desire for instant consumption pervade accounts of contemporary lives. Why is it that people feel pressed for time, in what ways have societies changed to create this condition, and with what implications? This book exami
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Time, Consumption and the Coordination of Everyday Life Dale Southerton
Consumption and Public Life
Series Editors Frank Trentmann Birkbeck, University of London London, UK Richard Wilk Indiana University Bloomington, IN, USA
The series will be a channel and focus for some of the most interesting recent work on consumption, establishing innovative approaches and a new research agenda. New approaches and public debates around consumption in modern societies will be pursued within media, politics, ethics, sociology, economics, management and cultural studies. More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14914
Dale Southerton
Time, Consumption and the Coordination of Everyday Life
Dale Southerton University of Bristol Bristol, UK
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In loving memory of George Grant for whom time was short but who always danced like there’s nobody watching.
Acknowledgements
For a book focused on time published 10 years after its original deadline, there are many possible puns: not least that it is about time the book was published! In the terms of my own analysis, this book has had a long duration, its content has been synchronized with many parallel p
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