Comfort and Convenience: Temporality and Practice

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Shove, Elizabeth ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Comfort; Compromise; Consumer culture; Consumption; Convenience; Demand; Practice; Social life; Temporal order; Time space profiles

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905388468     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199561216.013.0015     Document Type: Chapter

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