Citizenship and Consumption

ZYGMUNT BAUMAN is Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Leeds University, UKMARK BEVIR is Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, USA NICK COULDRY is Professor of Media and Communications and Culture, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UKMICHELLE EVERSON is Professor of Law, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK KARL GERTH is a University Lecturer in Modern Chinese History, Oxford University and Fellow of Merton College, UKFERENC HAMMER is Assistant Professor, Institute for Art Theory and Media Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, HungaryMATTHEW HILTON is Professor of Social History, University of Birmingham, UKCHRISTIAN JOERGES is Professor of Economic Law, European University Institute, Florence, ItalySONIA LIVINGSTONE is Professor, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics, UKTIM MARKHAM is a Lecturer in Media (Journalism), Birkbeck College, University of London, UKMICHELE MICHELETTI is Professor of Political Science, Karlstad University, Sweden BRONWEN MORGAN is Professor of Sociolegal Studies, University of Bristol, UKJOHN O'NEILL is Professor of Political Economy, Manchester University, UK

• List of Illustrations List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: K.Soper & F.Trentmann PART 1: RETRIEVAL Civic Choices: Retrieving Perspectives on Rationality, Consumption, and Citizenship; M.Bevir & F.Trentmann Consumption and Politics in Twentieth-Century China; K.Gerth Sartorial Manoeuvres in the Dusk: Blue Jeans in Socialist Hungary; F.Hammer PART 2: TALK AND ACTION Consuming without Paying: Stealing or Campaigning? The Civic Implications of Civil Disobedience around Access to Water; B.Morgan The Banality of Consumption; M.Hilton 'Public Connection' and the Uncertain Norms of Media Consumption; N.Couldry, S.Livingstone & T.Markham The Moral Force of Consumption and Capitalism: Anti-Slavery and Anti-Sweatshop; M.Micheletti PART 3: PROSPECTS Exit Homo Politicus , Enter Homo Consumens ; Z.Bauman Consumer Citizenship in Post-national Constellations?; M.Everson & C.Joerges Sustainability, Well-being and Consumption: The Limits of Hedonic Approaches; J.O'Neill 'Alternative Hedonism' and the Citizen-Consumer; K.Soper Index

'...provides a forum for current thinking on consumption and citizenship, exploring overlaps, interactions, and tensions between them.' - Journal of Consumer Policy