Consumption, Markets and Culture

Alan Bradshaw and Joel Hietanen are the new editors of CMC. Read the announcement here: think.taylorandfrancis.com/new-editors-an…

Here's Søren Askegaard interviewing a Director of the European Environmental Agency, addressing matters of impact, policy and the forms of dialogue possible between critical scholarship and policy development. We will publish more podcasts in the future. soundcloud.com/qmp-790368337/…

We're excited to invite papers on "Re-Imagining Family" Special Issue that Lydia Ottlewski and I are co-editing for @CMCjournal. We encourage critical discussions broadening views on what #family is and can be in today's society / @lifestyle_em @EMLYON @dbm_samf

I'm co editing a special issue of @CMCjournal with @robertcluley. PDW in Edinburgh next April. Submission Deadline next August. bit.ly/MarxMarketing

Very happy and grateful to share that my paper, 'The “decline” of London’s curry houses, invented tradition, authenticity, gastromythology,' written in 2019, was recently published as an early access in the journal Consumption, Markets & Culture. tandfonline.com/eprint/MNJVGG8….

Now available Open Access: Hybrid consumer activism in Fairtrade Towns: exploring digital consumer activism through spatiality @CMCjournal @tandfonline tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… @Robi_Discetti

"Poetics of Consumption: Call for Papers" think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues…

"this study also sheds light on the cultural meanings of debt and credit in the Finnish context...Finland has developed from a poor, agrarian periphery into a consumer society relatively recently and quickly, largely in the 1960s and 1970s" tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Congratulations to our member Anthony Beudaert (2023) for his article on the consequences of the rise of plastic on both our lifestyles and the environment published in the new 'Commodities that Cause Trouble' collection of @CMCjournal 🙌 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Our special issue on Communication in Global Crises is out in @cmcjournal! Contributors reflect on the different invocations of consumption, culture, power and resistance in crisis times, with varying consequences @bourne_clea @britprof @mjdutt @jentakhar tinyurl.com/2p9mf6bw

Join @sanna_zahoor & Alan Bradshaw, Publisher and Editor of @CMCjournal, at the Transformative Consumer Research Conference at @RoyalHolloway this Sunday 18 June to Tuesday 20 June.🤝 @TcrAcr #TCR2023 📲Access topical articles from the journal for free: tandfonline.com/journals/gcmc2…

Here's something from us about the recent TCR conference: tandfonline.com/journals/gcmc2…

Social vs. medical egg freezing: What’s the difference? nationalgeographic.com/science/articl… via @NatGeo Read more about egg freezing in @CMCjournal tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

"On the one hand, the Viking myth has been misappropriated by white supremacists looking to justify their xenophobia and acts of violence..." From a recent piece by J. Sodergren: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

"while understanding the dynamics of the digital dimension is important, focusing exclusively on the digital realm conveys an image of digital consumer activism as detached and disconnected from local communities, places, and practices." tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

@HeyReprotech @SilentSorority @FrzMyEggs tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… "Communicative crises in the age of anxious reproduction and fertility preservation"

In the music streaming age, what makes vinyl records so appealing? I address this question in an article in @CMCjournal all about the lost practices of vinyl consumption: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #vinylrecords #materiality #nostalgia #digitalization #music #streaming @kingsbschool

Very excited to present this Wednesday my research on food truckers as #taste dealers of #authenticity (published on @CMCjournal) at the @SHU_CHEFS, together with another great paper by Božić on organic food micro-producers! You can join at this link blogs.shu.ac.uk/chefscluster/c…

"our study sets out to describe and understand how contemporary consumers imagine data collection practices and the ways that these imaginaries impact on consumers’ relationships with data collecting technologies". A new piece by C. Fuentes and N. Sörum: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

"our knowledge of how immigrant consumer communities navigate institutional dynamics for introducing new market options in host countries is limited" tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

"The study of guilt, especially in its unconscious forms, can provide some interpretive clues as to the meaning of“green” consumption not taken into account by previous research" tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…