Consuming happiness: aspirational practices in/from the margins

Abstract

1. Consuming Happiness: Aspirational Practices in/from the Margins (Special Issue Editorial) – Mehita Iqani 2. Divine Discontent: Aspirations and Subjective Well-being at a Time of Social Mobility and High Inequality – Debra Shepherd 3. Prophets Making Gendered Interventions: A Feminist Discourse Analysis of Gendered Online Miracles, Advice, Advertisements, and Testimonies – Kudzaiishe Vanyoro 4. “Your boy is a boiii”: Capturing the Consumption of Trans Joy in the Form of Synthetic Testosterone – B Camminga & Noam Lubinsky 5. Performing Drag in a Pandemic: Affect in Theory, Practice and (Potential) Political Mobilization – Niall P. Brennan 6. Consuming Africa: Safari Aesthetics in the Johannesburg Beauty Industry – Nicky Falkof 7. Managing Sullied Pleasure: Dining Out While Black and Middle Class in South Africa – Thabisani Ndlovu 8. Consuming the Rich White “Bitch” on The Real Housewives of Johannesburg – Alexia Smit If happiness is what we wish for, it does not mean we know what we wish for in wishing for happiness. Happiness might even conjure its own wish. Or happiness might keep its place as a wish by its failure to be given.