Routledge Handbook on Consumption

Dr. Margit Keller is a senior researcher in social communication in the Institute of Social Studies, at the University of Tartu, Estonia. She chairs the Research Network of Sociology of Consumption in the European Sociological Association. Dr. Bente Halkier is a professor of sociology in the Department of Sociology, at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Dr. Terhi-Anna Wilska is a professor of sociology in the Faculty of Social Sciences, at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Dr. Monica Truninger is a senior research fellow in the Institute of Social Sciences, at the University of Lisbon, Portugal.

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List of contributors

Preface

1 Consumption research revisited: Charting of the territory and introducing the handbook

Bente Halkier, Margit Keller, Monica Truninger and Terhi-Anna Wilska

PART I

Theoretical and methodological perspectives on consumption

2 Consumer culture theory

Russell Belk

3 Studying consumption through the lens of practice

Alan Warde, Daniel Welch and Jessica Paddock

4 Methods and methods’ debates within consumption research

Bente Halkier

5 Ruminations on the current state of consumer ethnography

Robert V. Kozinets and Eric J. Arnould

PART II

Consumers and markets: Introduction

6 Marketing and consumer research: An uneasy relationship

Matthias Bode and Søren Askegaard

7 Consumers and brands: How consumers co-create

Siwarit Pongsakornrungsilp and Jonathan E. Schroeder

8 From production and consumption to prosumption: A personal journey and its larger context

George Ritzer

9 Collaborative consumption and sharing economies

Stefan Wahlen and Mikko Laamanen

10 Crises and consumption 1

Sebastian Koos

PART III

Global challenges in consumption: Introduction

11 Consumption in the web of local and global relations of dominance and belonging

Güliz Ger

12 China – the emerging consumer power

LiAnne Yu

13 Consumption in Brazil – the field of new consumer studies and the phenomenon of the "new middle classes"

Livia Barbosa and John Wilkinson

14 Russia: Postsocialist consumer culture

Olga Gurova

15 Bridging North/South divides through consumer driven networks

Laura T. Raynolds

PART IV

Politics and policies of consumption: Introduction

16 Political consumption – citizenship and consumerism

Eivind Jacobsen

17 Food labelling as a response to political consumption: Effects and contradictions

Adrian Evans and Mara Miele

18 Consumption policies within different theoretical frameworks

Dale Southerton and David Evans

19 Citizen-consumers: Consumer protection and empowerment

Arne Dulsrud

20 Practice change and interventions into consumers’ everyday lives

Margit Keller and Triin Vihalemm

21 Behaviorally informed consumer policy: Research and policy for "humans"

Lucia A. Reisch and John B. Thøgersen

PART V

Consumption and social divisions: Introduction

22 Poverty, financing and social exclusion in consumption research

Pernille Hohnen

23 Poverty and food (in)security

Monica Truninger and Cecilia Díaz-Méndez

24 Materiality, migration and cultural diversity

Marta Vilar Rosales

25 Gender, sexuality and consumption

Pauline Maclaran, Cele C. Otnes and Linda Tuncay Zayer

26 Children as consumers

David Buckingham and Vebjørg Tingstad

27 Youth and generations in consumption

Terhi-Anna Wilska

28 Aging and consumption

Carol Kelleher and Lisa Peñaloza

PART VI

Contested consumption: Introduction

29 Sustainable consumption and changing practices

Matt Watson

30 Structural conditions for and against sustainable ways of consuming

Bas van Vliet and Gert Spaargaren

31 Retail sector facing the challenge of sustainable consumption

Mikael Klintman

32 Sexual embodiment and consumption

Sue Scott

33 Taste and embodied practice

Melissa L. Caldwell

34 Health, bodies and active leisure

Roberta Sassatelli

PART VII

Culture, media and consumption: Introduction

35 Consumption of culture and lifestyles

Tally Katz-Gerro

36 Consumption of leisure

Jennifer Smith Maguire

37 Fashion in consumer culture

Laurie A. Meamber, Annamma Joy and Alladi Venkatesh

38 Luxury consumption and luxury brands: Past, present, and future

Annamma Joy, Russell Belk and Rishi Bhardwaj

39 Social media consumer as digital avatar

Alladi Venkatesh and Duygu Akdevelioglu

40 Digital consumption

Minna Ruckenstein

Index