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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
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