Shopping All the Way to the Woods How the Outdoor Industry Sold Nature to America by Rachel S G...
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Shopping All the Way to the Woods How the Outdoor Industry Sold Nature to America by Rachel S Gross | 14.7 MB
304 Pages
Title: Shopping All the Way to the Woods
Author: Rachel S. Gross
Description:
A fascinating history of the profitable paradox of the American outdoor experience: visiting nature first requires shopping
No escape to nature is complete without a trip to an outdoor recreational store or a browse through online offerings. This is the irony of the American outdoor experience: visiting wild spaces supposedly untouched by capitalism first requires shopping. With consumers spending billions of dollars on clothing and equipment each year as they seek out nature, the American outdoor sector grew over the past 150 years from a small collection of outfitters to an industry contributing more than 2 percent of the nation's economic output.
Rachel S. Gross argues that this success was predicated not just on creating functional equipment but also on selling an authentic, anticommercial outdoor identity. In other words, shopping for the woods was also about being—or becoming—the right kind of person. Demonstrating that outdoor...
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A fascinating history of the profitable paradox of the American outdoor experience: visiting nature first requires shopping
No escape to nature is complete without a trip to an outdoor recreational store or a browse through online offerings. This is the irony of the American outdoor experience: visiting wild spaces supposedly untouched by capitalism first requires shopping. With consumers spending billions of dollars on clothing and equipment each year as they seek out nature, the American outdoor sector grew over the past 150 years from a small collection of outfitters to an industry contributing more than 2 percent of the nation's economic output.
Rachel S. Gross argues that this success was predicated not just on creating functional equipment but also on selling an authentic, anticommercial outdoor identity. In other words, shopping for the woods was also about being—or becoming—the right kind of person. Demonstrating that outdoor...
DOWNLOAD:
https://rapidgator.net/file/e0e4a83f170e98a63d19ae7ed1658a57/Shopping_All_the_Way_to_the_Woods__How_the_Outdoor_Industry_Sold_Nature_to_America_by_Rachel_S._Gross_.rar
https://k2s.cc/file/6ace84ab98957/Shopping_All_the_Way_to_the_Woods__How_the_Outdoor_Industry_Sold_Nature_to_America_by_Rachel_S._Gross_.rar
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