Has Consumption Ruined the City?
A special issue of Social Sciences (ISSN 2076-0760).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 November 2023) | Viewed by 274
Special Issue Editor
Interests: consumer culture and identity; commodification of the city; regeneration of the city; retail and social change; young people and cultural production/consumption; cultural industries
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Social scientists have long recognized the impact of consumption on questions of identity, as well as its influence on how human beings experience social change. Indeed, it could be argued that our relationship with consumption determines how the relationship between the individual and society is played out.
This Special Issue is concerned with how the relationship between consumption, identity, space and place is actually manifested in cities. The impact of commodification is undeniable; the commodification of city spaces and places has had a profound impact upon what it actually means to be a citizen of a consumer society. However, it could be argued consumption has helped to construct a rigid kind of city, one which is built upon a form of pre-programmed, market-driven user-friendliness that distracts us from the more playful and just kind of city to which we could aspire. The city, as it is currently understood, is arguably over-prescriptive; it is the product of a dominant economic, cultural and social ideology which stubbornly prioritizes consumerism.
Thus, we are seeking contributions from across the Social Sciences that specifically consider the role of consumption in forging how consumers experience city life. Contributors are asked to critically engage with the city in all its disparate forms and to do so through empirical or theoretical contributions that shed light on how cities are compelled to balance the tensions between the “authentic” and the inauthentic.
Prof. Dr. Steven Miles
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- consumption
- city
- regeneration
- commodification
- tourism
- identity
- gentrification
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