{"product_id":"comfort-and-contemporary-culture-hardback","title":"Comfort and Contemporary Culture - Hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003eTo \u003ci\u003ebe\u003c\/i\u003e comfortable stands as an aspiration of the times; to \u003ci\u003ebe\u003c\/i\u003e comfortable defines what it means to live ‘the good life’. We talk about such things as maintaining a \u003ci\u003ecomfortable\u003c\/i\u003e home, a \u003ci\u003ecomfortable\u003c\/i\u003e lifestyle and a \u003ci\u003ecomfortable\u003c\/i\u003e retirement. We seek out comforts in the relationships we sustain, the leisure practices we enact and the possessions we accumulate. We look for promises of comfort in the words of a close friend and our next pair of shoes. Furnished in the home, optionally outfitted in cars, scrutinised in holiday brochures and brushed up against in the clothes we wear, comfort is there, marking distinctions and framing decisions about what it means to live \u003ci\u003ewell\u003c\/i\u003e. But by consuming comfort in the ways that we do, we do ourselves harm and limit our only planet of its capacity to provide for the requirements of life. This is a world that grows ever more uncomfortable \u003ci\u003ebecause\u003c\/i\u003e of comfort and when linked to consumption and excess, indulgence and apathy, it occurs that comfort carries effects that have existential consequence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUtilising analyses of popular culture and ethnographic accounts of everyday life, \u003ci\u003eComfort and Contemporary Culture\u003c\/i\u003e works through case study accounts of comfort’s enactment to pose questions around what it means to live, now. \u003ci\u003eComfort and Contemporary Culture\u003c\/i\u003e poses alternative renderings of the idea of comfort to return the concept to its earliest roots in notions of \u003ci\u003econfortāre\u003c\/i\u003e. The revisioning of what we take as comfort requires urgent attention, with the ecological, social and intrapersonal implications of comfort’s current excesses demonstrative of this need. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book will be relevant reading for students and scholars of cultural studies and sociology, cultural anthropology, social geography and studies of community.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45584181690606,"sku":"9781032536538","price":227.2,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/comfort-and-contemporary-culture-hardback","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}