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

This collection explores the relationships between the emotional and material, engaging with and developing the debates surrounding the emotional and material labour involved in producing and reproducing domestic and intimate spaces. The contributions examine the geographies and spaces of consumption in international and local-global spheres. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction....Pages 1-9 Front Matter....Pages 11-11 Collective Action and Domestic Practices: England in the 1830s and 1840s....Pages 13-35 Buying the Ties That Bind: Consumption, Care and Intimate Investment among Transnational Households in Highland Ecuador....Pages 36-59 Interconnectivities and Material Agencies: Consumption, Fashion, and Intimacy in Zhu Tianwen’s ‘Fin-de-Siècle Splendor’....Pages 60-83 Front Matter....Pages 85-85 ‘My Bedroom Is Me’: Young People, Private Space, Consumption and the Family Home....Pages 87-106 The Transgressive Potential of Families in Commercial Homes....Pages 107-125 Belonging in Difficult Family Circumstances: Emotions, Intimacies and Consumption....Pages 126-144 ‘You’re Not Going Out Dressed Like That!’: Lessons in Fashion Consumption, Taste and Class....Pages 145-170 Front Matter....Pages 171-171 Pretty Pants and Office Pants: Making Home, Identity and Belonging in a Workplace....Pages 173-196 Buying for Baby: How Middle-Class Mothers Negotiate Risk with Second-Hand Goods....Pages 197-215 The Hidden Lives of Domestic Things: Accumulations in Cupboards, Lofts, and Shelves....Pages 216-231 Back Matter....Pages 233-235