…spring was not kind for getting content up onto Odyssey Online, but summer is now upon us. The summer before last we dedicated the blogging here to books, that is, to suggested reading lists on a wide range of topics, and given the positive feedback we had on that, that’s going to be the plan for this summer too!
To start, themes of excess and living modestly were brought by several of the speakers at the 2011 SLU Commencement. So, following off that, here’s a list of newer titles from our collection on those themes, and consumerism generally:
- Excess: Anti-Consumerism in the West by Kim Humphrey
- Spent: Memoirs of a Shopping Addict by Avis Cardella
- Consumer Society: Critical Issues and Environmental Consequences by Barry Smart
- Myth of the Ethical Consumer by Timothy Devinney, Pat Auger, and Giana M. Eckhardt
- The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Plant, and a Vision for Change by Annie Leonard
- Identifying Consumption: Subjects and Objects in Consumer Society by Robert G. Dunn
- Consuming Life by Zygmunt Bauman
- Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole by Benjamin Barber
- American Mania: When More is Not Enough by Peter C. Whybrow