Consumer culture theory

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The visual politics of U.S. gun culture / Terrence H. Witkowski -- The U.S. gun culture seen through the lens of consumer culture theory : self-sufficiency, safety, and privacy / Jon Littlefield -- Negotiating cultural ambiguity : a phenomenological study of multiracial identity and consumption / Robert Harrison, Kevin Thomas -- Navigating the diversity within / Samantha N.N. Cross, Mary C. Gilly -- Consuming in the thresholds : stepping outside socialization theory to understand the contemporary child consumer / Kevina Cody -- The role of market-mediated milestones in negotiating adolescent identity tensions / Jenna Drenten -- The flickering consumer : new materialities and consumer research / Janet L. Borgerson -- Weddings as waste / Kira Strandby, Sren Askegaard -- Earmarking money and consumption / Tonya Williams Bradford -- What is mine is not yours : further insight on what access-based consumption says about consumers / Maurizio Catulli [and others] -- (Micro)financing to give : Kiva as a gift-market hybrid / Domen Bajde -- Bringing the body back into the study of time in consumer research / Sammy Toyoki [and others] -- Dancing around anti consumption social marketing : a theoretical approach / Carla Stalling Walter -- The co-creation of value-in-cultural-context / Melissa Archpru Akaka, Hope Jensen Schau, Stephen L. Vargo -- Loyalty in a cultural perspective : insights from French music festivals / Isabelle Collin-Lachaud, Dannie Kjeldgaard -- Behind the revealed brand : exploring the brand backstory experience / Vanisha Narsey, Cristel Antonia Russell -- Control and power in online consumer tribes : the role of confessions / Anna Fyrberg-Yngfalk [and others] -- Consumer knowledge and external pre-purchase information search : a meta-analysis of the evidence / Pingjun Jiang, Bert Rosenbloom.

In the latest volume of Research in consumer behavior : Consumer culture theory, the series contains a selection of edited best papers from the Eighth Consumer Culture Theory Conference held in Tucson, Arizona in June, 2013. These papers represent the latest ethnographic and qualitative research on consumption and consumer culture from scholars around the world. These studies in this volume draw on an array of largely qualitative methodologies including ethnography, netnography, autoethnography, discourse analysis, phenomenology, and semiotics. These diverse approaches to consumer research complement each other and provide a cutting edge view of consumer research.