Consumer Culture Theory

Introduction: Consumer Culture Theory: Ten Years Gone (and Beyond).
Chaosmosis: French Thought Styles and the Possible Reactivation of Consumer Culture Theory.
Roots and Development of Consumer Culture Theory.
Consumer Culture Theory and the AMA Job Market: Understanding the Challenges and Crafting Winning Strategies.
Critical Regionalities: Re-Thinking Regions in CCT.
The Formation of Consumer Activism: Context and Meanings of an Activist Order.
Chronos and Kairos: Multiple Futures and Damaged Consumption Meaning.
Of Gates and Doors: A Critical Reflection on Agency.
The Peril of Pink Bricks: Gender Ideology and LEGO Friends.
Myth-Mediated Branding.
Memories Standing Outside of the Self: The Commodity, the Collector, and Walter Benjamin’s Theory of Experience.
Connoisseurship Taste Ritual.
Ambiguity and Fandom: The (Meaningless) Consumption and Production of Popular Culture.
“They’re Taking Us for Fools” – When Ethnic Spectacles are Perceived as Dystopias.
Resolving Contradictions in Human Brand Celebrity and Iconicity.
Sensory Identity: The Impact of Olfaction on Consumption.
Negotiating Identity Reconstruction through Consumption: An Analysis of the Experiences of Consumers with Acquired Sensory Impairments.
“There will not be a World Cup”: The Kratophanous Power of the FIFA 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
Taking Off Our Earrings and Staying Out of Jail: Black Women and Madea on Tyler Perry’s Chitlin’ Circuit.
Critical Theory in Consumer Research: Advancing the Conversation.
Copyright page.
Consumer Culture Theory.
List of Contributors.
Preface.
Research in Consumer Behavior.
Consumer Culture Theory.