... Neoliberalism Consumerism Politics Social change Future Transcendental materialism Coined by Johnston (2008) and informed by the work of Lacan and Žižek, transcendental materialism offers a dialectical account of the relationship between subjectivity and the world we inhabit (also see Hall...

.... Originality/value Social policy studies surrounding social exclusion in terms of separation from mainstream society tend to focus on employment. This paper highlights that a social exclusion discourse can also provide a useful perspective to investigate exclusion in relation to consumerism. Given...

... , p. xix). Consumption Consumerism Cars A recent television commercial aired in the UK proclaimed “a car is just is car, is just a car, is just a car”. This strapline provides us with food for thought and in this paper we dare to ask when is a car, that most quintessential of mass...