Colin B Campbell & Pasi Falk 
The Shopping Experience 

This shrewd and probing book seeks to theorize shopping as an autonomous realm. It avoids the reductionist characteristics of economics and marketing. At the same time it avoids the moralizing tone of many contemporary discussions of shopping and consumption. It also contains an appendix which gives a brief history and selected literature of shopping.

Table of Content

Introduction – Colin Campbell and Pasi Falk

In Defence of Shopping – Mary Douglas

Could Shopping Ever Really Matter? – Daniel Miller

Modernity′s Disavowal – Mica Nava

Women, the City and the Department Store

Supermarket Futures – Rachel Bowlby

The Making of a Swedish Department Store Culture – Cecilia Fredriksson

Shopping in the East Centre Mall – Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen and Pasi M[um]aenp[um]a[um]a

Shopping, Pleasure and the Sex War – Colin Campbell and Paul Hewer

The Scopic Regimes of Shopping – Pasi Falk

Appendix: Research on Shopping – Paul Hewer and Colin Campbell

A Brief History and Selected Literature

About the author

Pasi Falk is a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Sociology, University of Helsinki