List of Contributorsvii
List of Figuresix
List of Tablesxi
Introduction Consumer Culture Fairy Tales
Domen Bajde, Dannie Kjeldgaard and Russell W. Belk
1
Part I Objects and Their Doings
Chapter 1 Love and Locks: Consumers Making Pilgrimages and Performing Love Rituals
Stéphane Borraz
7
Chapter 2 The Life and Death of Anthony Barbie: A Consumer Culture Tale of Lovers, Butlers, and Crashers
Luciana Walther
23
Chapter 3 “When Your Dog Matches Your Decor”: Object Agency of Living and Non-living Entities in Home Assemblage
Henna Syrjälä and Anu Norrgrann
39
Chapter 4 “I’m Only a Guardian of these Objects”: Vintage Traders, Curatorial Consumption and the Meaning(s) of Objects
Omar Khaled Abdelrahman, Emma Banister and Daniel Hampson
55
Part II Glocalization
Chapter 5 Story of Cool: Journey from the West to Emerging Arab Countries
Hela Zouaoui and Fatma Smaoui
73
Chapter 6 Ethnic Identification: Capital and Distinction among Second-generation British Indians
Anuja Pradhan, Hayley Cocker and Margaret K. Hogg
85
Chapter 7 Cognitive Polyphasia, Cultural Legitimacy and Behavior Change: The Case of the Illicit Alcohol Market in Kenya
Virginia N. Mwangi, Hayley L. Cocker and Maria G. Piacentini
103
Part III Constituting Markets
Chapter 8 Magic Towns: Creating the Consumer Fetish in Market Research Test Sites
Stefan Schwarzkopf
121
Chapter 9 Humanizing Market Relationships:The DIY Extended Family
Lydia Ottlewski, Johanna F. Gollnhofer and John W. Schouten
137
Chapter 10 Patriotism as Creative (Counter-)Conduct of Russian Fashion Designers
Olga Gurova
151
Chapter 11 Culinary Communication Practices: The Role of Retail Spaces in Producing Field-specific Cultural Capital
Cristina Galalae, Julie Emontspool and Omid Omidvar
169
Part IV Quoth the Raven
Chapter 12 Duck, it’s a Raven! Writing Stirring Stories with Andersen’s Sinister Shadow
Stephen Brown
185
Index197

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