The idea of luxury: revisited

Berry, C. J. (2023) The idea of luxury: revisited. Papers in Applied Geography, (doi: 10.1080/20511817.2022.2183542) (Early Online Publication)

Abstract

My book The Idea of Luxury: A Conceptual and Historical Investigation was published in 1994 (still in print). While what follows is bound to be self-referential and also presumptuous in that it is premised on there being some interest in these reflections on the book a quarter of a century plus later. The partial defense is that the book has been extensively cited and widely acknowledged as an important and influential contribution. In the period since its publication I have written (often by invitation) some papers that take, sometimes tangential, aspects of the book’s discussion as their cue but have not revisited the book as whole. This paper aims to take an, albeit still selective, overview of the book and reply to some of the criticisms to which it has been subject. I divide the paper into three sections. In Sections 1 and 2, I consider separately the two elements in the book’s sub-title before in Section 3 making some general remarks on the book’s implications for aspects of the contemporary study of luxury.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Early Online Publication
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Berry, Professor Christopher
• Authors: Berry, C. J.
• College/School: College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Politics
• Journal Name: Papers in Applied Geography
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• ISSN: 2375-4931
• ISSN (Online): 2375-494X
• Published Online: 20 March 2023
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2023 The Author
• First Published: First published in Papers in Applied Geography 2023
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced under a Creative Commons License