Consumer Culture in Latin America

Abstract

This collection brings together 20 original papers demonstrating the rise of scholarly interest in Latin American consumer cultures across the contemporary humanities and social sciences. The collection captures the landscape of recent developments across disciplines to understand how consumption practices and consumer culture is transforming modern Latin America. It highlights connections between previously disparate approaches to Latin American consumption by studying cultural production, state policies, economic structures, environmental factors, domestic life, urban development, tourism and more. [book summary from publisher]