Culture of the Slow

Across the world, there has been a growing dissatisfaction with the tempo of modern life. Described simply as the 'slow phenomenon', this volume explores this new brand of living that entails not simply slowing down but an embracing of alternative activities that promote meaning, thoughtfulness, engagement and authenticity.

1. The Time of Consumption; Kim Humphery 2. From Fast Fashion to Connected Consumption: Slowing Down the Spending Treadmill; Juliet B. Schor 3. You Eat What You Are: Cultivated Taste and the Pursuit of Authenticity in the Slow Food Movement; Charles Lindholm and Siv B. Lie. 4. Consuming Space Slowly: Reflections on Authenticity, Place and the Self; Nicholas Osbaldiston 5. Alternative Hedonism: The World by Bicycle; Martin Ryle and Kate Soper 6. Downshifting or Conspicuous Consumption? A Sociological Examination of Tree Change as a Manifestation of Slow Culture; Angela Ragusa 7. Sensuality, Sexuality, and the Eroticism of Slowness; Barnaby B. Barratt 8. Creativity Takes Time, Critique Needs Space: Re-Working the Political Investment of the Consumer through Pleasure; Roberta Sassatelli