Intimacies, Critical Consumption and Diverse Economies (Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life)

By: Yvette Taylor and Emma Casey

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Synopsis: This volume explores and develops the debates surrounding the emotional and material labour involved in producing and reproducing domestic and intimate spaces. It demonstrates the particular pertinence of everyday consumption, especially for women in late modernity, as they experience specific pressures to manage the work-life balance as part of a broader project of neo-liberal selfhood and subject making. Intimacies, Critical Consumption and Diverse Economies places emphasis on everyday life and the mundane forms of leisure and consumption including fashion, second-hand shopping, storing objects, and appropriating everyday spaces for the display of objects. In doing so, each contribution proposes an alternative to the mainstream accounts of spectacular, public consumption. They explore the various ways in which types of consumption might hold value and capital, and explore the potential risks underpinning 'at home' consumption. Taken together, the chapters examine the geographies and spaces of consumption in international and local-global spheres, asking what might constitute forms of critical consumption in and through diverse economies.