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Conference Consumer Culture Theory Conference (2006 : Notre Dame University)

Title Consumer culture theory / edited by Russell W. Belk, John F. Sherry, Jr.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Oxford : Elsevier JAI, 2007.

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 449 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Research in consumer behavior, 0885-2111 ; v. 11
Research in consumer behavior ; v. 11. 0885-2111
Note Selected conference papers.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Cover -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1: Theory/Agency -- Chapter 1. Consumer Culture Theory (and we really mean theoretics): Dilemmas and Opportunities Posed by an Academic Branding Strategy -- Elaborating on CCT -- CCT and the Complexities of Legitimacy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2. Working to Consume the Model Life: Consumer Agency Under Scarcity -- Introduction -- Consumer Agency -- Methodology -- The Field of Fashion Modeling -- Modes of Agency -- Discussion and Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix: List of Informants -- Chapter 3. The Material Semiotics of Consumption or where (and what) are the Objects in Consumer Culture Theory? -- Introduction -- Recovering the Object -- Method -- The Consuming Culture of the Exhibition Afghan Hound -- Progress and Adaptation -- Managing Ambivalence in Afghan Hound Practices: The Coat King -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 4. Service-Dominant Logic and Consumer Culture Theory: Natural Allies in an Emerging Paradigm -- Why an S-D/CCT alliance? -- CCT Foundations for S-D Premises -- Toward a Postconsumer -- Toward a CCT/S-D Friendly Lexicon -- Prospect -- Note -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Part 2: Festivity -- Chapter 5. Postmodern Consumption and the High-Fidelity Audio Microculture -- Introduction -- A Phenomenology of Consumer Values in the High-Fidelity Audio Microculture -- High-Fidelity Audio -- The High-Fidelity Audio Microculture -- Discussion -- References -- Chapter 6. Glocal Rock Festivals as Mirrors into the Future of Culture(S) -- Introduction -- An Ideological Genre: Rock Music -- Method -- Ideologies in Rock Festivals -- Consumption Meanings in the Rock Festivals -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix: Ideologies in the Rock Festivals -- Chapter 7. Comedy of the Commons: Nomadic Spirituality and the Burning Man Festival -- Introduction -- The Festival -- The Greeting -- Before the burn -- The burn -- After the burn -- The Morning after -- The Temple burn -- Staying-While-Leaving -- Founder's Perspective -- Gnostalgia, Monasticism and the Burning Man Network -- Comedy of the Commons -- Nomadic Essence of the burn -- References -- Part 3: Globality -- Chapter 8. Consuming the Dead: Waiting for Blessings in a Javanese Cemetery -- Death, Power and Identity -- Emplacement -- Sensing the World -- Blessing Vigils -- Poetics of place in Java -- Contributions to Consumer Culture Theory -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 9. A Heavy Burden of Identity: India, Food, Globalization, and Women -- Introduction -- Changing Food Practices Inside and Outside the Home -- Identities in Flux -- Food Globalization and Women's Identities -- Discussion and Preliminary Model -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 10. Consumption and Class During and after State Socialism -- Literature Review of Transformations --T$104.
Summary Drawing on a vast array of research contexts ranging from brand collecting, globalizing food in India, and art consumption to rock festivals, dog shows, and fan fiction, this volume suggests both the breadth and depth encompassed by Consumer Culture Theory (CCT). CCT is a specific interpretive approach to understanding consumer behavior that has crystallized in the past few years out of an evolving stream of research conducted over the past few decades. These chapters present cutting edge CCT research and are a subset of the work presented at the first CCT Conference. Besides its focus on c.
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Subject Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects.
Consumption (Economics)
Consumer behavior -- Congresses.
Consumer behavior.
Indexed Term Consumer culture
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Belk, Russell W.
Sherry, John F., Jr.
Other Form: Print version: Conference on Consumer Culture Theory (2006 : Notre Dame University). Consumer culture theory. Amsterdam ; Oxford : Elsevier JAI, 2007 9780762314461 076231446X (OCoLC)81453221
ISBN 9780080489612 (electronic book)
0080489613 (electronic book)
076231446X (Cloth)
9780762314461 (hardback)