Intimacies, Critical Consumption and Diverse Economies

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Collective Action and Domestic Practices: England in the 1830s and 1840s

Chapter 3 Buying the Ties That Bind: Consumption, Care and Intimate Investment among Transnational Households in Highland Ecuador

Chapter 4 Interconnectivities and Material Agencies: Consumption, Fashion, and Intimacy in Zhu Tianwen’s ‘Fin-de-Siècle Splendor’

Chapter 5 ‘My Bedroom Is Me’: Young People, Private Space, Consumption and the Family Home

Chapter 6 The Transgressive Potential of Families in Commercial Homes

Chapter 7 Belonging in Difficult Family Circumstances: Emotions, Intimacies and Consumption

Chapter 8 ‘You’re Not Going Out Dressed Like That!’: Lessons in Fashion Consumption, Taste and Class

Chapter 10 Buying for Baby: How Middle-Class Mothers Negotiate Risk with Second-Hand Goods

Chapter 11 The Hidden Lives of Domestic Things: Accumulations in Cupboards, Lofts, and Shelves