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Over-consumption is one of the key issues of our time; especially in the Western world. Over the past decade, in the face of historically unprecedented levels of consumer spending in the West – and the more recent threat of economic recession – a vigorous politics of anti-consumerism has emerged in a range of wealthy nations. This timely and original new book provides a comprehensive overview and analysis of what has come to be called the ‘new politics of consumption’; a politics embodied in movements such as culture jamming, simple living, slow food and fair trade. The book offers an examination of anti-consumerism at a time when the idea of ‘consumer excess’ is being re-framed by global recession, and crucially explores what this means for the future of the debates. Drawing on interviews with activists across three continents, and offering a refreshingly accessible discussion of contemporary commentary and theory, Kim Humphery sympathetically explores anti-consumerism as cultural interpretation, lifestyle change, and collective action. While analysing the positive advances of the anti-consumerist movement, Excess: Anti-consumerism in the West also challenges contemporary critical thinking on consumerism. Humphery takes issue with the return to theories of mass culture in the contemporary anti-consumerist polemic and with the tendency for critics to indulge in a high moralism, a pop psychologism, and a self-helpism, all directed more so at the individual as consumer than at the institutions of commercial and political power that drive the systems of consumption. Alternatively, Humphery begins to forge a politics of anti-consumerism that addresses the complexity of material acquisition, which avoids treating consumers as mere dupes in the logic of capitalism, viewing them instead as active participants in a culture which is capable of transformation. Monasticism - Wikipedia Monasticism (from Greek monachos derived from monos "alone") or monkhood is a religious way of life in which one renounces worldly Consumerism - Wikipedia Term The term "consumerism" has several definitions These definitions may not be related to each other and confusingly they conflict with each other ENOUGH ANTI-CONSUMERISM CAMPAIGN HOW CAN WE CHANGE CONSUMERISM? 1 HUMAN NEEDS AND HUMAN HAPPINESS Economists tell us that natural resources are scarce but that human wants are unlimited thus Getting Rich: from Zero to Hero in One Blog Post Hi there If we havent met my name is Mr Money Mustache Im the freaky financial magician who retired along with a lovely wife at age 30 in order to start a
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