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.

'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

Autorentext
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.

Inhalt

Introduction; Emma Casey and Yvette Taylor

PART I: EXPANDING THE FIELD: CONCEPTUALISING INTIMATE CONSUMPTION

1. 'Collective Action and Domestic Practices: England in the 1830s and 1840s'; Colin Creighton

2. 'Buying the Ties that Bind: Consumption, Care and Intimate Investment Among Transnational Households in Highland Ecuador'; Emma-Jayne Abbots

3. 'Interconnectivities and Material Agencies: Consumption, Fashion, and Intimacy in Zhu Tianwen's "Fin de Siècle Splendor"'; Laura Lovin

PART II: 'STICKY' AND SHIFTING SITES OF INTIMATE CONSUMPTION
4. 'My Bedroom is Me: Young people, Private Space and the Family Home'; Sian Lincoln
5. 'Servicing the Carnivalesque: Family Lives in 'Commercial Homes''; Julie Seymour
6. Sarah Wilson 'Emotions, Intimacies and Practices of Consumption in Difficult Family Circumstances'
7. Katherine Appleford ''You're not Going Out Dressed Like That!' Lessons in Fashion, Consumption, Taste and Class'

PART III: THE INTIMATE SOCIAL LIFE OF COMMODITIES
8. 'Pretty Pants and Office Pants: Making Identity, Friendships and Belonging in the Workplace'; Rachel Hurdley
9. 'Buying for Baby: How Middle-Class Mothers Negotiate Risk with Second-Hand Goods'; Emma Waight
10. 'Cupboards, Lofts and Shelves: The Hidden Lives of Domestic Things'; Sophie Woodward