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Author Jubas, Kaela.

Title The politics of shopping : what consumers learn about identity, globalization, and social change / Kaela Jubas.

Publication Info. Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series International Institute for Qualitative Methodology series
International Institute for Qualitative Methodology series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary This revised version of Kaela Jubas' award winning dissertation focuses on contemporary shopping practices, analyzing the ways concerned shoppers think about globalization, consumption, and their personal effect on the status quo. By using numerous examples from modern advertising, interviews with self-described "radical" shoppers, and selected quotes from scholars and experts, Jubas delves into questions of social justice, environmental awareness, and consumer identity-all demonstrated by individual choices made at the checkout counter. Employing a variety of qualitative research techniques and complex and counterintuitive cultural theory, Jubas's study will interest those in adult education, cultural studies, consumer research, and qualitative inquiry. --From publisher's description.
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Subject Shopping -- Political aspects.
Shopping.
Shopping -- Social aspects.
Shopping -- Social aspects.
Shopping -- Psychological aspects.
Shopping -- Psychological aspects.
Consumption (Economics) -- Political aspects.
Consumption (Economics) -- Political aspects.
Consumption (Economics)
Globalization -- Economic aspects.
Globalization -- Economic aspects.
Culture and globalization.
Culture and globalization.
Shopping in literature.
Shopping in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: 9781598746662 1598746669 (DLC) 2010030799
ISBN 1598746677 (electronic book)
9781598746679 (electronic book)
9781598746662 (harcover ; alkaline paper)
1598746669 (harcover ; alkaline paper)