Consumption: Acquisition Vol. 2

The Long History of Contemporary Consumer Society: Chronologies, practices, and politics in modern Europe Frank Trentmann A Consumers' Republic: The politics of mass consumption in postwar America Lizabeth Cohen Politicising Consumer Culture: Advertising's appropriation of political ideology in China's social transition Xin Zhao and Russell Belk Understanding the Flow of Symbolic Goods in the Global Cultural Economy Omar Lizardo Trying to be Cosmopolitan Craig Thompson and Siok Kuan Tambyah Poor Chic: The rational consumption of poverty Karen Bettez Halnon Modes of Provision Notes on the Relationship between Production and Consumption Alan Warde Toward a Theory of Consumer Choice as Sociohistorically Shaped Practical Experience: The fits-like-a-glove (FLAG) framework Douglas Allen Calculation, Qualculation, Calqulation: Shopping cart's arithmetic, equipped cognition and clustered consumers Franck Cochoy The Poverty of Morality Daniel Miller In Defence of Consumer Critique: Revisiting the consumption debates of the 20th century Juliet Schor Production of Culture Culture as (and after) Production Marco Santoro Why do Brands Cause Trouble? A dialectical theory of consumer culture and branding Douglas Holt Body Lessons: Fitness publishing and the cultural production of the fitness consumer Jennifer Smith Maguire Politics and Ethics of Distribution Voluntary Simplicity: Characterisation, select psychological implications and societal consequences Amitai Etzioni Time and Wealth: The role of time and temporalities for sustainable patterns of consumption Lucia Reisch Virtue, Responsibility and Consumer Choice: Framing critical consumerism Roberta Sassatelli