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1. Consuming the Entrepreneurial City

   Image, Memory, Spectacle

   Edited by Anne Cronin, Kevin Hetherington

   This collection offers a global perspective on the changing character of cities and the increasing importance that consumer culture plays in defining their symbolic economies. Increasingly, forms of spectacle have come to shape how cities are imagined and to influence their character and the...

   Published April 2nd 2008 by Routledge
2. Capitalism's Eye

   Cultural Spaces of the Commodity

   By Kevin Hetherington

   Series: Cultural Spaces

   Capitalism's Eye is an extremely ambitious cultural history of how people experienced commodities in the era of industrial expansion. Writing against the dominant argument that the 'society of the spectacle' emerged fully formed in the mid-nineteenth century, Kevin Hetherington explains that the...

   Published August 19th 2007 by Routledge
3. The Badlands of Modernity

   Heterotopia and Social Ordering

   By Kevin Hetherington

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   The Badlands of Modernity offers a wide ranging and original interpretation of modernity as it emerged during the eighteenth century through an analysis of some of the most important social spaces. Drawing on Foucault's analysis of heterotopia, or spaces of alternate ordering, the book argues that...

   Published August 20th 1997 by Routledge