Chapter 1 Slow Culture: An Introduction

Chapter 3 From Fast Fashion to Connected Consumption: Slowing Down the Spending Treadmill

Chapter 4 You Eat What You Are: Cultivated Taste and the Pursuit of Authenticity in the Slow Food Movement

Chapter 5 Consuming Space Slowly: Reflections on Authenticity, Place and the Self

Chapter 6 Alternative Hedonism: The World by Bicycle

Chapter 7 Downshifting or Conspicuous Consumption? A Sociological Examination of Treechange as a Manifestation of Slow Culture

Chapter 8 Sensuality, Sexuality and the Eroticism of Slowness

Chapter 9 Creativity Takes Time, Critique Needs Space: Re-Working the Political Investment of the Consumer through Pleasure

Chapter 10 Conclusion: Departing Notes on the Slow Narrative