Shopping and the Senses: A Sensory History of Retailing and Consumption

dc.cclicenceN/Aen
dc.contributor.authorDyer, Serena
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-14T08:45:00Z
dc.date.available2023-04-14T08:45:00Z
dc.date.issued2022-03-13
dc.description.abstractThis book demonstrates the primacy of touch, smell, taste, sight and sound within the retail landscape. It shows that histories of the senses, body, and emotions were inextricably intertwined with processes and practices of retail and consumption. Shops are sensory feasts. From the rustle of silk to the tempting aroma of coffee, the multi-sensory appeal of goods has long been at the heart of how we shop. This book delves into and beyond this seductive idyl of consumer sensuality. Shopping was a sensory activity for consumers and retailers alike, but this experience was not always positive. This book is inhabited by tired feet and weary workers, as well as eager shoppers. It considers embodied sensory experiences and practices, and it represents both a celebration and interrogation of the integration of sensory histories into the study of retail and consumption. Crucially, this book places breathing, feeling human bodies back into the retail space.en
dc.funderNo external funderen
dc.identifier.citationDyer, S. (2022) Shopping and the Senses: A Sensory History of Retailing and Consumption. London: Palgraveen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90335-0
dc.identifier.isbn9783030903343
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2086/22680
dc.language.isoenen
dc.peerreviewedYesen
dc.publisherPalgraveen
dc.researchinstituteInstitute of Historyen
dc.subjectshopping historyen
dc.subjectsensory historyen
dc.subjectconsumer historyen
dc.subjectretail historyen
dc.titleShopping and the Senses: A Sensory History of Retailing and Consumptionen
dc.typeBooken

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