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This volume presents recent consumer research across both positivist and interpretivist methods, focusing on topics with considerable current interest. These topics include organic food consumption, luxury goods consumption by Chinese consumers, country of manufacture effects on product quality perceptions, and the nature and effects of cool consumption. The perspectives embraced include managerial strategies, motivational mechanisms, social influences, and product and brand evaluations. Approximately half of the papers in the present volume were selected from those accepted for the 5th Annual Consumer Culture Theory Conference held at the University of Wisconsin in June of 2010. Together this latter set of interpretive papers presenting cutting edge interpretive consumer research. They also add to the richness of the topics covered in the volume, including chapters emphasizing brands, fashions, blogs, service receipt, and consumption experiences. They also add to the methodological scope of the volume, including uses of ethnography, autoethnography, netnography, and discourse analysis. Altogether the volume is a good reflection of what is happening in the field of consumer research.

Consumption (Economics) --- Consumer behavior --- Social aspects --- Consumer culture --- Consumer behavior. --- Consumers. --- Marketing research.

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religion --- religion and media --- religion and the marketplace --- religious tradition --- globalization --- consumer culture --- secularization --- religious fundamentalism --- religious tolerance

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Defined as a self-image made with a hand-held mobile device and shared via social media platforms, the selfie has facilitated self-imaging becoming a ubiquitous part of globally networked contemporary life. Beyond this selfies have facilitated a diversity of image making practices and enabled otherwise representationally marginalized constituencies to insert self-representations into visual culture. In the Western European and North American art-historical context, self-portraiture has been somewhat rigidly albeit obliquely defined, and selfies have facilitated a shift regarding who literally holds the power to self-image. Like self-portraits, not all selfies are inherently aesthetically or conceptually rigorous or avant-guard. But, –as this project aims to do address via a variety of interdisciplinary approaches– selfies have irreversibly impacted visual culture, contemporary art, and portraiture in particular. Selfies propose new modes of self-imaging, forward emerging aesthetics and challenge established methods, they prove that as scholars and image-makers it is necessary to adapt and innovate in order to contend with the most current form of self-representation to date. The essays gathered herein will reveal that in our current moment it is necessary and advantageous to consider the merits and interventions of selfies and self-portraiture in an expanded field of self-representations. We invite authors to take interdisciplinary global perspectives, to investigate various sub-genres, aesthetic practices, and lineages in which selfies intervene to enrich the discourse on self-representation in the expanded field today. Ace LehnerEditor

The arts --- Painting & paintings --- Selfies --- self-portraiture --- social media --- art history --- representation --- photography --- contemporary art --- Intersectionality --- intersectional approaches --- identity --- aesthetics --- contemporary life --- consumer culture --- avant-guard

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Exploring the roots of Canadian consumer culture, Purchasing Power uncovers the meanings that Canadians have attached to consumer goods. Focusing on women during the early twentieth century, it reveals that for thousands of Canadians between the 1890s and World War II, consumption was about not only survival, but also civic expression. Offering a new perspective on the temperance, conservation, home economics, feminist, and co-operative movements, this book brings women’s consumer interests to the fore. Due to their exclusion from formal politics and paid employment, many Canadian women turned their consumer roles into personal and social opportunities. They sought solutions in the consumer sphere to isolation, upward mobility, personal expression, and family survival. They transformed consumer culture into an arena of political engagement. Yet if Canadian women viewed consumption as a tool of empowerment, so did they wield consumption as a tool of exclusion. As Purchasing Power reveals, Canadian women of privileged race and class status tended to disparage racialized and lower income women’s consumer habits. In so doing, they constructed notions of taste that defined who – and who did not – belong in the modern Canadian nation.

Consumption (Economics) --- History. --- Canada. --- citizenship. --- co-operative movements. --- consumer culture. --- consumer studies. --- consumption. --- gender. --- history. --- home economics. --- shopping. --- temperance. --- twentieth-century Canadian history. --- women.

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Branded products opened a new poetological playing field for literature. This study shows how the works of E. Edel, T. Mann, I. Keun, W. Koeppen, and C. Kracht reflected the material, semiological, and cultural theory aspects of consumer culture and transformed them into literary devices. The volume considers a range of issues, from product catalogs to fetishization, including capitalist circulation processes and the fascination with surface. It uses close readings to open the reader's eyes to the cultural poetological dimension in literary texts and the conditions of culture in capitalism. Markenwaren bilden nicht das profane ,Andere' der Kultur. Vielmehr eröffnen sie der Literatur seit mehr als hundert Jahren neue poetologische Spielräume. Die Studie zeigt, wie Werke von Edmund Edel (Berlin W., 1906), Thomas Mann (Der Zauberberg, 1924), Irmgard Keun (Das kunstseidene Mädchen, 1932), Wolfgang Koeppen (Tauben im Gras, 1951) und Christian Kracht (1979, 2001) materielle, semiologische und kulturtheoretische Aspekte der Konsumkultur reflektieren und in literarische Verfahren überführen: von Warenhauskatalogen und Fetischisierungen bis zu kapitalistischen Zirkulationsprozessen und der Faszination glänzender Oberflächen. Die close readings öffnen den Blick für die kulturpoetologische Dimension literarischer Texte und für die Bedingungen von Kultur im Kapitalismus. Die Arbeit wurde 2012 mit dem Tiburtius-Anerkennungpreis der Berliner Hochschulen ausgezeichnet (http://www.hu-berlin.de/pr/nachrichten/nr1212/nr_121210_01).

German literature --- Brand name products in literature. --- Capitalism and literature. --- Consumption (Economics) in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Literature and capitalism --- Literature --- Consumer culture. --- aesthetics of commodity. --- gender studies. --- literature and economics.