Retail and the Artifice of Social Change

Retail has an increasingly powerful impact on our everyday experience of the world. In Retail and Social Change, Steven Miles interrogates the changing role of retail, in its material and virtual forms, as a lens through which we can understand what it means to be a citizen of a consumer society.

1. Introduction 2. The Individualised Consumer 3. Shopping for Identity 4. Whatever Happened to the City? 5. The Supermarket 6. Out-of-Town Retail 7. Experiential Retail 8. Tourism and Authenticity 9. Retail Online 10. Conclusion: The Artifice of Social Change