Shopping our way to safety : how we changed from protecting the environment to protecting ourselves...
Shopping our way to safety : how we changed from protecting the environment to protecting ourselves...
Shopping our way to safety : how we changed from protecting the environment to protecting ourselves / Andrew Szasz.
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Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007.
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N339.47097/ 3
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English
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Physical content
p. cm.
Contents
Introduction: inverted quarantine -- Two historical case studies -- The fallout shelter panic of 1961 -- Suburbanization as inverted quarantine -- Assembling a personal commodity bubble for one's body -- Drinking -- Eating -- Breathing -- Consequences of inverted quarantine -- Imaginary refuge -- Po...
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Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007.
Place of Publication
Minnesota
Date Published
c2007.
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Summary
"Andrew Szasz examines this phenomenon in Shopping Our Way to Safety. Within a couple of decades, he reveals, bottled water and water filters, organic food, "green" household cleaners and personal hygiene products, and "natural" bedding and clothing have gone from being marginal, niche commodities to becoming mass consumer items. Szasz sees these f...
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Shopping our way to safety : how we changed from protecting the environment to protecting ourselves / Andrew Szasz.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N339.47097/ 3
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74VK3O25G7wd
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK3O25G7wd
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ISBN
0816635099 (pb : alk. paper)
9780816635085 (hc : alk. paper)
0816635080 (hc : alk. paper)
9780816635092 (pb : alk. paper)
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339.470973
MMS ID
991023736169702626
