List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Plates

Acknowledgements

Notes on the Contributors

Consuming Cultures: Power and Resistance

Jeff Hearn

Sasha Roseneil

PART I HOMES AND HOUSEHOLDS, PLACES AND SPACES

The `Young Consumer' at Home: Dependence, Resistance and Autonomy

Gill Jones

Chris D. Martin

`We've Got Friends who Live in Council Houses': Power and Resistance in Home Ownership

Craig M. Gurney

The Ideal Home Exhibition: an Analysis of Constraints and Conventions in Consumer Choice in British Homes

Tony Chapman

Power and Resistance around the Dinner Table

Lydia Martens

Alan Warde

Marginalisation and Resistance through the Prism of Retirement

Mark Thorpe

The `Local' versus the `Global'?-`Individualised Milieux' in a Complex `Risk Society': the Case of Organic Food Box Schemes in the South West

Jorg Durrschmidt

PART II TECHNOLOGIES OF CONSUMPTION AND WASTE

Photography, Power and Resistance: the Case of Health and Medicine

Barbara Harrison

Kay Aranda

`It was the way we were watching it': Young Men Negotiate Pornography

Rachel Thomson

The Dialectics of Walking: Walkman Use and the Reconstruction of the Site of Experience

Michael Bull

The Mediated `Interaction Order'

Shaun Moores

Junk Mail and Consumer Freedom: Resistance, Transgression and Reward in the Panoptic Gaze

Gillian Reynolds

Catrina Alferoff

Rubbish-Power: Towards a Sociology of the Rubbish Society

Martin O'Brien

Index