Chapter 1: Introduction - Olga Kravets, Pauline Maclaran, Steven Miles and Alladi Venkatesh PART 1: Sociology of Consumption Chapter 2: The Emergence of Contemporary Consumer Culture - Stephen Miles Chapter 3: The Systems of Provision Approach to Understanding Consumption - Ben Fine, Kate Bayliss and Mary Robertson Chapter 4: The Making of the Consumer: Historical and Sociological Perspectives - Marie-Emmanuelle Chessel and Sophie Dubuisson-Quellier Chapter 5: Consumption, Class and Taste - Jessica Paddock PART 2: Geographies of Consumer Culture Chapter 6: Debunking the Myths of Global Consumer Culture Literature - Güliz Ger, Eminegül Karababa, Alev Kuruoglu, Meltem Türe, Tuba Üstüner and Baskin Yenicioglu Chapter 7: Consumer Culture in Socialist Russia - Olga Gurova Chapter 8: New Urbanism, Post-nationalism and Consumerist Modernity in India - Sanja Srivastava Chapter 9: Consumption and Consumer Rights in Contemporary China - Erika Kuever Chapter 10: Spaces of (Consumer) Resistance - Andreas Chatzidakis and Vera Hoelscher PART 3: Consumer Culture Studies in Marketing Chapter 11: Consumer Culture Theory: A Front-row Seat at the Sidelines - Linda Price Chapter 12: Consumer Identity Projects - Gretchen Larsen and Maurice Patterson Chapter 13: Re-presenting, Reinvigorating and Reconciling: Gift-Giving Research within and beyond the CCT Paradigm - Cele C. Otnes Chapter 14: Prosumption Tribes: How Consumers collectively Rework Brands, Products, Services and Markets - Bernard Cova and Daniele Dalli Chapter 15: Contesting Understandings of Contestation: Rethinking Perspectives on Activism - Jay Handelman and Eileen Fischer PART 4: Consumer Culture in Media and Cultural Studies Chapter 16: Consumer Culture and The Media - Mehita Iqani Chapter 17: Body Projects: Fashion, Aesthetic Modifications and Stylised Selves - Rossella Ghigi and Roberta Sassatelli Chapter 18: Who takes the first bite? A Critical Overview of Gender Representations in Food Marketing - Daniela Pirani, Benedetta Cappellini and Vicki Harman Chapter 19: Biopolitical Marketing and Technologies of Enclosure - Detlev Zwick and Janice Denegri-Knott PART 5: Material Cultures of Consumption Chapter 20: The Materiality of Consumer Culture - Paul Mullins Chapter 21: Subject/Object Relations and Consumer Culture - Shona Bettany Chapter 22: Another Consumer Culture Theory: An ANT look at consumption, or how ′market-things′ help ′cultivate′ customers - Franck Cochoy and Alexandre Mallard Chapter 23: Objects: From Signs to Design - Benoit Heilbrunn Chapter 24: The War on Cash - Brett Scott PART 6: The Politics of Consumer Culture Chapter 25: Consumer-Citizens: Markets, Marketing and the Making of ′Choice′ - Stefan Schwarzkopf Chapter 26: Are you Neoliberal Fit? The Politics of Consumption under Neoliberalism - Anisha Datta and Indranil Chakraborty Chapter 27: Sustainable Consumption, Consumer Culture and The Politics of a Megatrend - William Kilbourne, Pierre McDonagh and Andrea Prothero Chapter 28: Buying into the Nation: The Politics of Consumption and Nationalism - Eleftheria J. Lekakis Chapter 29: The Politics of Consumption - Alan Bradshaw

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