Culture of the Slow

1. Slow Culture: An Introduction
Nick Osbaldiston

2. The Time of Consumption
Kim Humphery

3. From Fast Fashion to Connected Consumption: Slowing Down the Spending Treadmill
Juliet B. Schor

4. You Eat What You Are: Cultivated Taste and the Pursuit of Authenticity in the Slow Food Movement
Charles Lindholm, Siv B. Lie

5. Consuming Space Slowly: Reflections on Authenticity, Place and the Self
Nick Osbaldiston

6. Alternative Hedonism: The World by Bicycle
Martin Ryle, Kate Soper

7. Downshifting or Conspicuous Consumption? A Sociological Examination of Treechange as a Manifestation of Slow Culture
Angela T. Ragusa

8. Sensuality, Sexuality and the Eroticism of Slowness
Barnaby B. Barratt

9. Creativity Takes Time, Critique Needs Space: Re-Working the Political Investment of the Consumer through Pleasure
Roberta Sassatelli

10. Conclusion: Departing Notes on the Slow Narrative
Nick Osbaldiston

Avainsanat: Social Sciences, Political Sociology, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Sociology of Culture, Regional and Cultural Studies, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Cultural Studies