Life, liberty, and the pursuit of cool have informed the American ethos since at least the 1970s. Whether we strive for it in politics or fashion, cool is big business for those who can sell it across a range of markets and media. Yet the concept wasn't always a popular commodit…
"Anders Hansen is Associate Professor in the School of Media, Communication and Sociology, University of Leicester, UK. He is Associate Editor of Environmental Communication; Founder and immediate-past Chair of the IAMCR Group on Environment, Science and Risk Communication; Foun…
The 21st century marks a watershed in the history of the human economic condition. Income and wealth inequalities are now greater than ever before - and their role in the global financial crisis is one of the burning issues of today. Commodity looks at the great financial crisis…
What is the price of a limb? a child? love? Legal cases and theories are folllowed by a series of essays that consider a range of issues including intellectual property, reparations for slavery, organ transplants, and sex work.
What is the price of a limb? a child? love? Legal cases and theories are folllowed by a series of essays that consider a range of issues including intellectual property, reparations for slavery, organ transplants, and sex work.
While some commentators consider appeals to human dignity to be little more than rhetoric and not worthy of serious consideration, this text give such appeals defensible meaning through an application of the moral theory of Alan Gewirth.
The Critique of Commodification -- A Theory of Commodification -- Politics of Commodification -- Consequences of Commodification -- Limits of Commodification -- Rediscovering Use Value -- Alternatives to Commodification: Use Value Society. "This book explores the intellectual h…
"This book explores the intellectual history, nature, and consequences of commodification. While many use the term commodification, few realize that it was only introduced in the 1970s by Marxist scholars in Britain and the US. However, while Marxists initially used commodificat…
"This book explores the intellectual history, nature, and consequences of commodification. While many use the term commodification, few realize that it was only introduced in the 1970s by Marxist scholars in Britain and the US. However, while Marxists initially used commodificat…
Ikonische Kommunikation ist Conditio sine qua non zeitgenössischer Social-Media-Anwendungen. Speziell die mobile Mediensoftware Instagram kann als eines der global bedeutendsten kulturellen Produktionsmittel der Gegenwart gelten. Ihre medienstrukturelle Konzeption - insbesondere…
"This is a rigorous academic inquiry into how labor power has been dehumanized and commodified around the world through the ages for creation of wealth, capital accumulation, and industrialization. Major forms of unfree and involuntary labor markets around the world-from slavery…
"This is a rigorous academic inquiry into how labor power has been dehumanized and commodified around the world through the ages for creation of wealth, capital accumulation, and industrialization. Major forms of unfree and involuntary labor markets around the world-from slavery…
"This is a rigorous academic inquiry into how labor power has been dehumanized and commodified around the world through the ages for creation of wealth, capital accumulation, and industrialization. Major forms of unfree and involuntary labor markets around the world-from slavery…
"This is a rigorous academic inquiry into how labor power has been dehumanized and commodified around the world through the ages for creation of wealth, capital accumulation, and industrialization. Major forms of unfree and involuntary labor markets around the world-from slavery…
"Recent decades have seen an upsurge in visitation to rock art sites, as well as an increase in commercial reproduction of rock art and attempts to understand the meaning and function of that art within the indigenous cultures that produced it. What motivates this growing intere…
