The Authority of the Consumer explores the implications of `consumer society' - charting its meanings in particular circumstances and analysing this way of understanding the relationships between `providers' and 'recipients'.
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The distinctive perspective of this collection is in linking the emphasis on consumerism in contemporary public discourse with our theorizations of power, or more precisely authority, in late-modern Britain...One of the great pleasures of this book is that the authors are clearly working seriously at the extent to which we have to re-think established prejudices..
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Russell Keat is Reader in Philosophy, Nicholas Abercrombie is Professor of Sociology and Nigel Whiteley is Head of the Department of Visual Arts, all at the University of Lancaster.
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A striking recent development is the tendency to refer people as consumers in a wide range of contexts where they had previously been known by other and more varied names. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
community arts movement, democratic consumerism, consumer authority, public service users, producer authority, market consumerism, service user groups, cultural practitioners, authority contexts, design museum Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Age, Arts Council, Metropolitan Police, New Right, New York, Kegan Paul, Wolff Olins, Policy Studies Institute, New Left, Oxford University Press, University of California Press, Open University Press, Albert Museum, American Studies, Design Council, Milton Keynes, Polity Press, Prime Minister, Audit Commission, Children Act, Clarendon Press, Labour Party, National Gallery, Old Left, South Kensington Museum New!
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A striking recent development is the tendency to refer people as consumers in a wide range of contexts where they had previously been known by other and more varied names. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
community arts movement, democratic consumerism, consumer authority, public service users, producer authority, market consumerism, service user groups, cultural practitioners, authority contexts, design museum Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Age, Arts Council, Metropolitan Police, New Right, New York, Kegan Paul, Wolff Olins, Policy Studies Institute, New Left, Oxford University Press, University of California Press, Open University Press, Albert Museum, American Studies, Design Council, Milton Keynes, Polity Press, Prime Minister, Audit Commission, Children Act, Clarendon Press, Labour Party, National Gallery, Old Left, South Kensington Museum New!
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- Consumer Culture and Postmodernism (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society) by Mike Featherstone on 6 pages
- Pop Art (Art and Design Profiles) by England) Pop Art Symposium (1991 London on page 129, page 136, and page 137
- Economic Importance of the Arts in Britain (PSI research report) by John Myerscough on page 142, page 153, and page 186
- New Age (Notorious Entities Warring Against God's Excellence) by Stephanie E. McKinney on page 111, page 112, and page 113
- Renewal Factor by Robert Waterman on page 98, and page 101
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- Consumer Culture by Celia Lury on 4 pages
- Consumerism, Romance and the Wedding Experience by Sharon Boden on 4 pages
- Understanding Audiences: Theory and Method by Andy Ruddock on 4 pages
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