Table of contents - Special Issue: Communities and consumption
Guest Editors: Caroline Bekin, Marylyn Carrigan, Isabelle Szmigin
Cultures of consumption of car aficionados: Aesthetics and consumption communities
Paul Hewer, Douglas BrownlieThe purpose of this paper is to explore the virtual consumption communities which cohere around the object of the car. Focusing upon the cultural practice of debadging, the paper…
Growing sustainable consumption communities: The case of local organic food networks
Gill SeyfangSustainable consumption is increasingly on the policy menu, and local organic food has been widely advocated as a practical tool to make changes to conventional production and…
Consumer voters in imagined communities
Deirdre ShawIncreasingly, reports of consumers are witnessed expressing their concerns regarding corporate practices through behaviours of boycotting, buycotting and voice. The theory of…
Cool Cymru, rugby union and an imagined community
John HarrisThe purpose of this paper is to critically reflect upon the place of rugby union in contemporary Wales where the game is used as an important tool to promote images of the nation…
Queer consumption and commercial hospitality: Communitas, myths and the production of liminoid space
Peter LugosiThe purpose of this paper is to develop a conceptual framework for understanding the relationship between sexual dissidence, gender transgression and commercial hospitality. The…
Autopoiesis and the home‐confined consumer: The role of personal communities
Hilary Downey, Miriam CatterallThe purpose of this paper is to explore the consumption of a personal community and its role in the everyday life of the home‐confined consumer.
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- Prof Colin Williams