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Consuming Happiness : Aspirational Practices in Global Perspective, Hardback Book

Consuming Happiness : Aspirational Practices in Global Perspective Hardback

Edited by Mehita (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa) Iqani

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This book offers a collection of scholarly writing on the meanings of happiness in relation to consumption. The concept of happiness in relation to consumption deserves critical attention.

While administrative marketing scholars might take for granted the notion that consumption and brand engagement produces positive affects in consumers, such as enjoyment and thrill, more analysis and theoretical exploration are needed to shed light on what that satisfaction and pleasure means in the context of an increasingly unjust and unequal world.

This question is particularly pressing in terms of exploring consumer cultures in the global south.

The chapters in this volume explore how material practices link to structures of power and exploitation.

Taken together, they offer nuanced insight into what notions of a good and fulfilling life mean both to individual consumers and to the societies in which they participate, especially when those societies are characterised by inequality and poverty alongside wealth and elite consumption.

This collection places the spotlight on consumption practices, that is, the various forms of social action including communication and marketing that are implemented in everyday life, in relation to the market economy, with and through it. This book will be of great value to students and scholars who are interested in the everyday practices of consumption within a range of fields such as business and management, sociology, media and cultural studies.

The chapters in this book were originally published in Consumption Markets & Culture.

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