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Ascetic protestantism as fatal strategy: religious-economic conflict and the implosion of cultural value Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Graham C. Goff
This article engages Jean Baudrillard’s principles of hyperreality and fatal strategy, and Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism in comparative analysis. First, it defines h...
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Teaching in and for the hinterlands: a commentary Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Alexander S. Rose
Published in Consumption Markets & Culture (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The good and the glittery: a commentary on the contemporary culture of research and publications Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Ankur Kapoor
The dominant metaphors of “publication game,” “fast-food publishing,” or “pipeline/assembly-line” bear heavily on the ways we produce and appraise knowledge. With the hope of breaking the hegemony ...
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Can ethics be assembled? Consumer ethics in the age of artificial intelligence and smart objects Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Anna Schneider-Kamp
AI-enabled smart objects have rapidly become everyday commodities and do not only change the ways in which we consume but also the ethics that guide our consumption. Emerging sociomaterial perspect...
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Organs or bodies? Toward an equitable, embodied, and animal-inclusive diversity, equity, and inclusion agenda Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Jack Waverley
This paper celebrates the turn toward embodiment. Drawing connections between embodiment and the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) agenda, this article notes that the axis of speciesism, or di...
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Multiple versions of markets? Exploring market reconfigurations in shared mobility Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Gianluca Chimenti
By combining research on ambiguity and constructivist market studies with a case study of shared mobility in Sweden, I develop the argument that ambiguous concepts contribute significantly to const...
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Fitness interrupted Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Alev Pinar Kuruoglu, Anne Louise Fink, Dorthe Brogård Kristensen
This article investigates the entanglement between embodiment and space, by unfolding the consequences of the Covid19-lockdown on fit bodies. We draw on workout diaries and phenomenological intervi...
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Claiming space: understanding female agency in contemporary advertising Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Irina Balog
This paper seeks to examine how consumers understand and discuss female agency portrayed in contemporary advertising in relation to the body. It employs a Poststructuralist Feminist framework, draw...
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Framing and decoupling in global markets: a theoretical framework for the analysis of multiple markets Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Glaucia Peres da Silva
Global markets are making the issue of multiple markets especially evident. In light of this, the present paper proposes a theoretical framework for the study of multiple markets based on combining...
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Gendered marketing Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Daniela Pirani
Published in Consumption Markets & Culture (Vol. 27, No. 1, 2024)
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Tribal entrepreneurs: caught in the crossfire of the tribal and market logics? Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Bernard Cova, Simone Guercini
There is a statement that runs through the literature on consumer culture, one that contrasts tribal logic with market logic and asserts that they cannot be combined. This statement has become a bl...
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Commentary: worthiness of the human race Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 A. Fuat Fırat
In this think-piece, I explore possible reasons for the current conditions of human existence on Earth and propose some ideas regarding the reasons for the predicament humanity seems to be facing a...
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The trial of Julian Assange: a story of persecution Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Iain Munro
Published in Consumption Markets & Culture (Vol. 26, No. 6, 2023)
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The “decline” of London’s curry houses invented tradition, authenticity, gastromythology Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Arup K. Chatterjee
Curry houses are among Britain’s most prominent historical, cultural, and gastronomic links with Asia. Recent developments in the context of Britain’s “declining” curry culture suggest that the ind...
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Transcendence up for sale: cracking the onto-existential codes for Übermensch Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Soonkwan Hong
ABSTRACT More than ever, technology governs human life, sociality, politics, and culture in general. This article examines transhumanism, a relatively new entry into the political economy of life, for its overarching impact on humanity, history, and the market. I first review foundational accounts in the philosophy of technology conducive to the discussions of human, technology, and the body, before
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Cultural-affective process of market violence: Finnish instant loans in debtors’ online narratives Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Ella Lillqvist, Päivi Timonen
This paper extends recent theorising on “market violence”, defined here as a type of structural and cultural violence that takes place through an assemblage in the market environment. The Finnish “...
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The metastatic spread of plastics in consumer society: a reading through the lens of counter-productivity and conviviality Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Anthony Beudaert
ABSTRACT The vertiginous rise of plastics after World War II has contributed to a profound transformation of both our lifestyles and the environment. Drawing on Ivan Illich’s concepts of counter-productivity and conviviality, as well as on the notion of agnotology, i.e. strategies for constructing ignorance, this contribution to the section Commodities that Cause Trouble pursues a twofold purpose:
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From loss to involuntary liquidity: refugees’ relationships to possessions Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Maria Hokkinen
This paper explores refugees’ relationships to consumption and possessions while they resettle in a Nordic country. The results of the empirical study (one-on-one photovoice interviews and micro fo...
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Interview with Lars Fogh Mortensen, European Environmental Agency Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Søren Askegaard
This is an interview conducted by Søren Askegaard with researcher and analyst Lars Fogh Mortensen from the European Environmental Agency in October 2022.
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Communication in global crises: critical discourses on consumption, culture, power, and resistance Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Arindam Das, Himadri Roy Chaudhuri, Lee Edwards
ABSTRACT The introductory article to the Special Issue asserts a convergence between communication, media studies, CCT, and critical marketing. Challenging the social amnesia surrounding global crises, this article highlights the importance of how global crises get communicated in the market and the associated issues of power dynamics. The article reinforces the value of placing power at the center
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Multiple embodiment relations: sense-making in dissociative experiences Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Chloe Preece, Victoria Rodner, Laryssa Whittaker
ABSTRACT In response to a call for new conceptualizations of the self that avoid mind/body dualisms, recent research has introduced more flexible and fluid theorizations of personhood. This paper takes a phenomenological approach to examine the perceived shifts in body ownership and distribution of agency which underpin such theorizations. We focus on two dissociative experiences, namely, spirit possession
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Affording pleasure: the role of objects in women’s and AFAB individuals’ sexual self-knowledge and pleasure Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Spencier Ciaralli, Kelcie Vercel
ABSTRACT Although historically stigmatized, women’s participation in the sex toy industry is significantly linked to their sexual autonomy, and women’s use of sex toys for sexual pleasure is prevalent. In this analysis, we consider how these important market practices are built upon practices established outside the erotic market in early life. More specifically, we reveal how women’s and AFAB (As
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“I need to be looking fit to exercise”: teleoaffective misalignment through body evaluation and body projection practices for mothers Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Fiona Spotswood, Lauren Gurrieri
ABSTRACT This qualitative study extends our understanding of the body in practice theoretic consumption research by illuminating its roles in the pre-performative practices that mothers routinely perform when considering the possibility of exercise; namely body evaluation and projection practices. These practices construct the ‘mothering body’ as a failing body because it does not exercise, which is
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Heroic failure narratives: building conveyed authenticity and engagement from downfalls Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Fernanda Scussel, Benjamin Rosenthal, Maribel Suarez
ABSTRACT This research investigates how heroic failure narratives displayed by a social media influencer are received and signified by online audiences. Based on a netnography, we analyse the journey of a marathonist and social media influencer in his unsuccessful quest to qualify for the Boston Marathon. Our analysis reveals how failure in a heroic quest triggers narratives and meanings related to
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Buy now pay later services as a way to pay: credit consumption and the depoliticization of debt Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2023-06-02 Julia Cook, Kate Davies, David Farrugia, Steven Threadgold, Julia Coffey, Kate Senior, Adriana Haro, Barrie Shannon
ABSTRACT The use of buy now pay later (BNPL) services has grown rapidly in recent years. Existing research has considered the regulatory challenges they pose, but further work is required to map their significance as a means of normalizing and naturalizing debt. In response, this article focuses on the situated landscape of marketing and branding of BNPL services through analysis of their websites
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Consumer activism, promotional culture, and resistance: integrating a celebratory fragmented literature and showing a dark side Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Maria Carolina Zanette
Published in Consumption Markets & Culture (Vol. 26, No. 5, 2023)
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Woke capitalism: how corporate morality is sabotaging democracy Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Norah Campbell
Published in Consumption Markets & Culture (Vol. 26, No. 6, 2023)
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Coffee: a global marketplace icon Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Federico Angelo Triolo, Bernardo Figueiredo, Diane M. Martin, Francis Farrelly
ABSTRACT Coffee is far more than just a beverage. It is a product that boasts an extraordinarily rich history, and its cultural identity has shifted over time. This article explores how coffee secured its status as a global marketplace icon. We argue that coffee is a metamorphic product based on its capacity to assume multiple and different cultural meanings over time. First consumed for its energizing
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Re-aligning market and hospitality assemblages: the case of peer-to-peer hospitality in Japan Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Marc Chataigner
ABSTRACT This study investigates how non-professional hosts affect market formation in the hospitality industry. The data collected was derived from peer-to-peer (P2P) hospitality practices in Japan via platforms like Airbnb. The data showed a tension between market and hospitality principles of profit-making and welcoming strangers, respectively. Initially, it appeared that non-professional hosts
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Bodies as machines. Machines as bodies Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Vitor Lima, Russell Belk
ABSTRACT From early Greek philosophers to Descartes’ machinic metaphors of humans-as-machines, to the emergence of physical machine-like humans, the intersections of the human body with machines circle back through hundreds of years of debates on human-technology relationships. We live in an age when robots are becoming increasingly human-like with artificial intelligence that mimics and sometimes
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The porosity of the consumer Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Mark Tadajewski, Matthew Higgins
ABSTRACT In this paper, we explore and extend the work of Daniel Pick. Pick articulates the ways in which the political and intellectual atmosphere shapes how we understand human thought. As a case in point, advertising and marketing have been influenced by theories, concepts and empirical materials that problematised the materialistic interpretation of mind. This is most overt in the debates relating
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Consuming memorial tattoos: the body as marketplace object? Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Chloe Steadman, Dominic Medway, Emma Banister
ABSTRACT The body is central to contemporary consumer culture. However, whilst material objects such as family heirlooms can be used by the living to create a sense of immortality for the deceased, little is known about why persons might turn to their own impermanent bodies to create a symbolic legacy for lost loved ones. Drawing on multiple in-depth interviews with eight memorial tattoo consumers
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The pursuit of luxury or luxuries? A framework of the past, present, and future of luxury research Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Wided Batat
ABSTRACT Is there one legitimate form of luxury, or are there many acceptable luxury forms? The answer is that it all depends on the perspective used to define luxury, and who is involved in doing so. Luxury research is a solid field of study. However, most studies in marketing and consumer research focus on the exclusive nature of luxury consumption and mainly adopt a goods-centric and conventional
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In total smartness: the institutional logics perspective on the Internet of things and people Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2023-01-26 Seidali Kurtmollaiev
ABSTRACT Following the institutional logics perspective and an inductive research design, this study is the first to outline the Internet of things and people as a new institutional order with a distinct logic. The rise of this new institutional logic is prompted by smart technology, which transforms the ideological field of technology and challenges consumers’ self-concepts. In counterbalancing attempts
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The miasma of misinformation: a social analysis of media, markets, and manipulation Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2023-01-17 Nikhilesh Dholakia, Aras Ozgun, Deniz Atik
ABSTRACT The miasma of misinformation has become globally pervasive, infecting millions of people with false beliefs and conspiracies. This conceptual study examines the role of media in the creation, sustenance, and propagation of misinformation, by looking into the economic structuring of media industries. Traditionally, media relied on the dual product model that rendered their function of informing
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The dark side of marketing communications: critical marketing perspectives Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2022-12-21 Robert Cluley
Published in Consumption Markets & Culture (Vol. 26, No. 4, 2023)
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Uncloseted Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2022-12-09 Vikram Kapoor
ABSTRACT This collection of six poems is based on my reflections on growing up as a gay man in a heteronormative society where same-sex indulgence was outlawed until recently. The previously present anti-sodomy statute in India, political and religious concerns, and class-based social structures that converged to form an unfavorable atmosphere for gendered minorities, serves as the backdrop for these
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The city eats the worker: migrant negotiations of COVID-19 and resistance amidst the COVID-19 crisis Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Mohan J. Dutta, Md. Mahbubur Rahman
ABSTRACT This essay draws upon a digital ethnography and in-depth interviews with Bangladeshi low-wage migrant workers in Singapore to theorize the COVID-19 outbreak in dormitories housing the workers as a crisis of the consuming city. Building on the concept of extreme neoliberalism, we examine the ways in which the erasure of worker voice as a technique of smart governmentality coded into the “Singapore
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Communication and economic life Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Alice Wickström
Published in Consumption Markets & Culture (Vol. 26, No. 2, 2023)
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Quality offsets? A commentary on the voluntary carbon markets Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Alice Valiergue, Véra Ehrenstein
ABSTRACT From Big Tech to Oil Majors, companies are increasingly resorting to the voluntary purchase of carbon credits to offset their greenhouse gas emissions and make claims about their carbon neutrality. Yet, the credibility of offsetting as a solution to climate change remains contested. From the outset, that is, since the mid-2000s, the voluntary carbon markets have been criticised, as we discuss
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Hybrid consumer activism in Fairtrade Towns: exploring digital consumer activism through spatiality Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Roberta Discetti, Matthew Anderson
ABSTRACT This paper aims to explore digital consumer activism through a spatial lens, in order to understand how digital and place-based consumer activism intersect and interact. The empirical context is provided by Fairtrade Towns activism in the UK, investigated through netnographic methods. Three main spatialised tactics of digital consumer activism emerged from the analysis: emplacing the digital
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Communicative crises in the age of anxious reproduction and fertility preservation Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2022-11-25 Jennifer Takhar
ABSTRACT In the current context of anxious reproduction and a global fertility crisis women may feel they are running out of time, racing against the biological clock and are now able to take advantage of fertility preservation technologies that include the freezing of eggs or oocyte cryopreservation (OC). I briefly explore how anxiety has become a significant feature of social egg freezing consumption
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Like a child would do. An interdisciplinary approach to childlikeness in past and current societies Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Stephen O’Sullivan
Published in Consumption Markets & Culture (Vol. 26, No. 2, 2023)
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“Taking a chance on a record”: lost vinyl consumption practices in the age of music streaming Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2022-11-07 Sophie Whitehouse
ABSTRACT In the age of music streaming, the physicality of vinyl has never been so appealing. While studies have focused on the medium itself and the record store as a static site of consumption, this article explores lost vinyl consumption practices that traverse time and space via consumers’ nostalgic recollections. In-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 14 active consumers of vinyl
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Consumption, identity, and surveillance during COVID-19 as a crisis of pleasure Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2022-10-26 Arthur D. Soto-Vásquez, Kyle Moody, Ariadne A. Gonzalez, Wanzhu Shi
ABSTRACT The global COVID-19 pandemic was the latest instance of a crisis of pleasure. Crises of pleasure are periodic eruptions of discontent when consumption is disrupted by external forces. In this case, the pandemic also disrupted expressions of identity on social media, where identity is made legible through conspicuous consumption on social media in the early 2020s. Drawing from six qualitative
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Anarchism, Organization and Management: Critical Perspectives for Students Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2022-10-10 Jack E. Davis
Published in Consumption Markets & Culture (Vol. 26, No. 1, 2023)
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“A LOOT-a continua”? Inequality, humour, and broken aspirations in South African consumer culture Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Mehita Iqani, Bridget Kenny
ABSTRACT This paper critically analyses purposively chosen case studies from media coverage of the lootings in South Africa in July 2021. Our goals are to help make sense of a collectively traumatic event and to move beyond theories of looting as “deviant” consumption. We explain the context of the lootings, offering a long-view of crises building up to an intense eruption of social unrest during the
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How sociotechnical imaginaries shape consumers’ experiences of and responses to commercial data collection practices Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2022-09-20 Niklas Sörum, Christian Fuentes
ABSTRACT How is the ongoing “datafication” in society experienced by consumers? Critical discussions regarding the impact of datafication on consumers seldom study consumers’ actual experiences. Conversely, the studies that do exist of consumers and their experiences of datafication tend to take an individualistic approach, arguing that how consumers experience and respond to the ongoing datafication
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Space for seduction: the redefining of auction houses’ role in the art market Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2022-09-19 Federica De Molli, Marilena Vecco, Marta Pizzetti
ABSTRACT Technological and socio-economic changes have forced organizations in the art sector to redefine their function in the market, to strengthen their relationships with consumers and to appeal to a more heterogeneous consumer audience. The physical space of art organizations constitutes a major tool for them to attract and communicate with customers. Based on a multiple case studies approach
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Consuming happiness: aspirational practices in/from the margins Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2022-09-06 Mehita Iqani
Published in Consumption Markets & Culture (Vol. 25, No. 4, 2022)
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An exploration of poverty as a consumption object: voluntourist’s stories from an orphanage in Nepal Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2022-09-01 Amira Benali, Olga Kravets
ABSTRACT This paper examines the understanding of poverty emerging in voluntourists’ accounts of their first-hand experiences of poverty alleviation. Based on the ethnography of an orphanage in Nepal, we show that despite voluntourists’ good intentions and even (self-)criticism of the volunteer tourism approach to poverty relief, their accounts tend to consolidate rather regressive ideas about poverty
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Penthouse, Hustler & Playboy in South Africa’s neoliberal nineties Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2022-08-29 Stella Viljoen
ABSTRACT The nineties saw the lifting of sanctions in South Africa which implied an influx of brands that needed appropriate spaces to advertise their wares. For this reason, and the virtual end of censorship, this was the ideal context for international men’s magazines to enter the South African market. Hustler, Penthouse and Playboy all started South African editions as the country transitioned into
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Immigration blues: understanding market dynamics through consumer acculturation Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2022-08-05 Pamela Ogada, Frank Lindberg
ABSTRACT Several studies on market dynamics emphasize the role of consumers and other market actors in shaping the existing market logics. However, little attention has been paid to how immigrant consumer communities navigate among market actors and the mainstream institutional environment to alter markets in host societies. Through an acculturation lens, we set out to study the development of immigrant
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Guilt and differentiation in social discourses on “green” consumption in Spain Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2022-08-02 Marc Barbeta-Viñas
ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to explore social discourse on “green” consumption in Spain by analysing how guilt and logic of practice are involved in this type of consumption from a psycho-sociological perspective. The empirical work was qualitative: we analysed 14 focus groups and nine interviews with “green” and “non-green” consumers from different social backgrounds. The results show that
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How art market actors experience market emergence in an unequal field: placing Brazilian contemporary art in the global art market Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2022-07-20 Amanda Brandellero
ABSTRACT This paper contributes to art marketing and consumption literature by studying how art market participants from Brazil – a market considered “emergent” – position themselves in the global art market. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 60 art market participants and participant observation in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, the paper shows how position and validation gains are understood
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Disassociation from the common herd: conceptualizing (in)conspicuous consumption as luxury consumer maturity Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2022-07-18 Foo-Nin Ho, Jared Wong
ABSTRACT Within the context of luxury consumption, we propose a novel theory of luxury consumer maturity that captures how consumers’ tastes can become more discriminating over time. In particular, we consider the way luxury consumers exhibit maturity (i.e. connoisseurship) as a proxy for Bourdieusian cultural capital. Consumer maturity manifests as a preference for inconspicuous luxury goods that
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“One day you’ll buy a Rolex from me”: reflexivity and researcher decoding positions in luxury research Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2022-07-06 Mehita Iqani
ABSTRACT Looking back on completed fieldwork for interdisciplinary research exploring the discursive construction of luxury by those producing and promoting it, I noticed that I – a putative expert in consumer culture – had my own sense of self, critical distance and belonging challenged and negotiated by the object of study. This paper theorises reflexivity in luxury research, showing how luxury worked
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Mountains and desire Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2022-07-01 Narayanan Gopalakrishnan
Published in Consumption Markets & Culture (Vol. 25, No. 6, 2022)
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Rethinking Advertising as Paratextual Communication Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2022-06-30 Aidan Kelly
Published in Consumption Markets & Culture (Vol. 25, No. 5, 2022)
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Algorithmic consumer culture Consumption Markets & Culture (IF 2.46) Pub Date : 2022-06-03 Massimo Airoldi, Joonas Rokka
ABSTRACT This article conceptualizes algorithmic consumer culture, and offers a framework that sheds new light on two previously conflicting theorizations: that (1) digitalization tends to liquefy consumer culture and thus acts primarily as an empowering force, and that (2) digitalized marketing and big data surveillance practices tend to deprive consumers of all autonomy. By drawing on critical social