New Directions in Consumer Research

Kathy Hamilton is a Reader in Marketing at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow where she teaches consumer research and advanced qualitative methods classes. Kathy leads the Consumption, Markets and Society research cluster and her research focuses on how market-mediated culture impacts consumers, institutions and society. She explores how interpretive methodologies can be used to generate theoretical advances in knowledge and is co-chair of the biennial EIASM Interpretive Consumer Research workshops. Kathy is interested in interdisciplinary research and her work has been published in various outlets including Journal of Consumer Research, Sociology, Annals of Tourism Research, Journal of Public Policy & Marketing and European Journal of Marketing. Kathy was co-chair of the ESRC seminar series on Consumer Vulnerability and is currently co-chair of the Consumer Research with Social impact Special Interest Group within the Academy of Marketing. She has also been track chair at Transformative Consumer Research and Macromarketing conferences. Kathy is an associate editor for the Journal of Marketing Management and on the editorial board for Marketing Theory and Social Business.

VOLUME ONE: PRACTICES Consumption and Theories of Practice - Alan Warde Towards a Theory of Social Practices: A Development in Culturalist Theorizing - Andreas Reckwitz Practice Mind-ed Orders - Theodore Schatzki Practice as Collective Action - Barry Barnes Consumers, Producers and Practices: Understanding the Invention and Reinvention of Nordic Walking - Elizabeth Shove and Mika Pantzar Moving with Practices: The Discontinuous, Rhythmic and Material Mobilities of Leisure - Allison Hui On the Slope Is on the Screen: Prosumption, Social Media Practices, and Scopic Systems in the Freeskiing Subculture - Niklas Woermann How Brand Community Practices Create Value - Hope Schau, Albert Muniz, Jr and Eric Arnould Taste Regimes and Market-Mediated Practice - Zeynep Arsel and Jonathan Bean Articulating Consumers through Practices of Vernacular Creativity - Douglas Brownlie and Paul Hewer Veiling in Style: How Does a Stigmatized Practice Become Fashionable? - OEzlem Sandikci and Gueliz Ger How Practices Inform the Materialization of Cultural Ideals in Mundane Consumption - Heli Holttinen Whose Work Is It Anyway? The Shifting Dynamics of 'Doing Mothering' - Benedetta Cappellini and Elizabeth Parsons After Taste: Culture, Consumption and Theories of Practice - Alan Warde Recruitment, Defection and Reproduction - Elizabeth Shove, Mika Pantzar and Matt Watson VOLUME TWO: SHARING Sharing - Russell Belk The Rise of Collaborative Consumption - Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers Downloading Deviance: Symbolic Interactionism and Unauthorised File-Sharing - Robert Cluley Community and Consumption: Towards a Definition of the "Linking Value" of Products or Services - Bernard Cova Working Consumers: The Next Step in Marketing Theory? - Bernard Cova and Daniele Dalli Islamic Arab Hospitality and Multiculturalism - Rana Sobh, Russell Belk and Jonathan Wilson Consumer File Sharing of Motion Pictures - Thorsten Hennig-Thurau, Victor Henning and Henrik Sattler The Wisdom of Consumer Crowds: Collective Innovation in the Age of Networked Marketing - Robert Kozinets, Andrea Hemetsberger and Hope Schau Sharing and Web 2.0: The Emergence of a Keyword - Nicholas John Access-based Consumption: The Case of Car Sharing - Fleura Bardhi and Giana Eckhardt A Child's Right to Play: The Social Construction of Civic Virtues in Toy Libraries - Lucie Ozanne and Julie Ozanne Sharing by Default? Outline of an Anthropology of Virtue - Thomas Widlok Giving Away One's Poverty. On the Consumption of Scarce Resources within the Family - Thierry Kochuyt Anti-consumption Choices Performed in a Drinking Culture: Normative Struggles and Repairs - Helene Cherrier and Lauren Gurrieri VOLUME THREE: POLITICS Representations and Consumerism - Roberta Sassatelli The New Politics of Consumption: Why Americans Want So Much More Than They Need - Juliet Schor The Political Economy of Consumption - David Luban The Brand as Informational Capital - Adam Arvidsson The Role of Consumer Agency in the Globalisation Process in Emerging Markets - Giana Eckhardt and Humaira Mahi The Limits of Culture: Political Economy and the Anthropology of Consumption - James Carrier Think Globally, Transact Locally: Green Political Economy and the Local Currency Movement - Eric Helleiner Could Shopping Ever Really Matter? - Daniel Miller The Troubling Equivalence of Citizen and Consumer - Michael Schudson The Citizen-Consumer Hybrid: Ideological Tensions and the Case of Whole Foods Market - Josee Johnston Towards a Geographical Politics of Consumption - Elaine Hartwick Downshifting Consumer = Upshifting Citizen? An Examination of a Local Freecycle Community - Michelle Nelson, Mark Rademacher and Hye-Jin Paek Re-thinking the 'Good Life': The Citizenship Dimension of Consumer Disaffection with Consumerism - Kate Soper Towards a Consumerist Critique of Capitalism: A Socialist Defence of Consumer Culture - Matthias Varul Globalization, Reflexivity and the Project of the Self: A Virtual Intercultural Learning Process - Aliakbar Jafari and Christina Goulding VOLUME FOUR: SPACES Geographies of Consumption - Peter Jackson and Nigel Thrift Just Doing It: A Visual Ethnographic Study of Spectacular Consumption Behavior at Nike Town - Lisa Penaloza Themed Flagship Brand Stores in the New Millennium: Theory, Practice, Prospects - Robert Kozinets, John Sherry, Benet DeBerry-Spence, Adam Duhachek, Krittinee Nuttavuthisit and Diana Storm Why Are Themed Brandstores So Powerful? Retail Brand Ideology at American Girl Place - Stefania Borghini, Nina Diamond, Robert Kozinets, Mary McGrath, Albert Muniz, Jr and John Sherry, Jr Branded Spaces: The Scope of 'New Marketing' - Elizabeth Moor Taking Butler Elsewhere: Performativities, Spatialities and Subjectivities - Nicky Gregson and Gillian Rose Cultural Consumption, Interactive Sociality, and the Museum - Aliakbar Jafari, Babak Taheri and Dirk vom Lehn Exhibitions and the Role of Fashion in the Sustenance of the Kylie Brand Mythology: Unpacking the Spatial Logic of Celebrity Culture - Paul Hewer and Kathy Hamilton Fashioning Independence: Gender, Dress and Social Space in Postcolonial Argentina - Regina Root Street Art, Sweet Art? Reclaiming the 'Public' in Public Place - Luca Visconti, John Sherry, Jr, Stefania Borghini and Laurel Anderson Moral Habitus and Status Negotiation in a Marginalized Working-Class Neighborhood - Bige Saatcioglu and Julie Ozanne Heterotopian Space and the Utopics of Ethical and Green Consumption - Andreas Chatzidakis, Pauline Maclaran and Alan Bradshaw Organic Community Tourism: A Co-created Approach - Kathy Hamilton and Matthew Alexander The Neoliberal City and the Pro-active Complicity of the Citizen Consumer - Steven Miles Tribal Mattering Spaces: Social-Networking Sites, Celebrity Affiliations, and Tribal Innovations - Kathy Hamilton and Paul Hewer Spaces of Hope, Enlivenment and Entanglement: Explorations in the Spatial Logic of Celebrity Culinary Brands - Paul Hewer and Douglas Brownlie