Pub Date : 2022-11-16DOI: 10.1080/10253866.2022.2146680
Stephen R. O’Sullivan
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Pub Date : 2022-11-07DOI: 10.1080/10253866.2022.2134124
Sophie Whitehouse
ABSTRACT In the age of music streaming, the physicality of vinyl has never been so appealing. While studies have focused on the medium itself and the record store as a static site of consumption, this article explores lost vinyl consumption practices that traverse time and space via consumers’ nostalgic recollections. In-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 14 active consumers of vinyl who are members of the UK indie pop music scene using their chosen album artwork as props to stimulate discussion. The findings from the thematic data analysis reveal a trajectory of practices centered on the purchase of records and the effort of acquiring and appreciating vinyl over time. This article contributes new insights into materiality and consumption by foregrounding the role of nostalgia and temporality in shaping consumers’ long-term relationship with legacy technological objects and determining how consumption practices are re-contextualized in times of personal and cultural discontinuities.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-26DOI: 10.1080/10253866.2022.2137500
Arthur D. Soto-Vásquez, Kyle A. Moody, A. A. Gonzalez, Wanzhu Shi
ABSTRACT The global COVID-19 pandemic was the latest instance of a crisis of pleasure. Crises of pleasure are periodic eruptions of discontent when consumption is disrupted by external forces. In this case, the pandemic also disrupted expressions of identity on social media, where identity is made legible through conspicuous consumption on social media in the early 2020s. Drawing from six qualitative focus group interviews conducted in the summer of 2020, we analyze how social media users interpret the accounts they follow posting content that seemingly violates social distancing guidelines during COVID-19. We find that consumption during the pandemic was highly contested and surveilled, with participants describing the disciplining power of social media and their use of news and public health guidelines to inform their identities. Both trends illustrate how surveilled modes of consumption characterize the post-lockdown consumption reality, which is polarized and partisan leading towards hedonist and puritanical models.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-10DOI: 10.1080/10253866.2022.2126839
Jack E. Davis
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Pub Date : 2022-10-07DOI: 10.1080/10253866.2022.2124978
M. Iqani, Bridget Kenny
ABSTRACT This paper critically analyses purposively chosen case studies from media coverage of the lootings in South Africa in July 2021. Our goals are to help make sense of a collectively traumatic event and to move beyond theories of looting as “deviant” consumption. We explain the context of the lootings, offering a long-view of crises building up to an intense eruption of social unrest during the pandemic. Then, we analyse four selected looting stories that captured significant, even spectacular, public attention. We present each story and explicate its meaning in relation to the South African polity and show how each allows for a departure from the concept of deviant consumption. We conclude by arguing that spectacularised mediated moments of looting from this event require theories of the carnivalesque and aspiration rather than those of deviant consumption. These have specific resonance in contexts of inequality.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-20DOI: 10.1080/10253866.2022.2124977
Niklas Sörum, Christian Fuentes
ABSTRACT How is the ongoing “datafication” in society experienced by consumers? Critical discussions regarding the impact of datafication on consumers seldom study consumers’ actual experiences. Conversely, the studies that do exist of consumers and their experiences of datafication tend to take an individualistic approach, arguing that how consumers experience and respond to the ongoing datafication is the result of their individual psychological make-up or the result of processes of cost–benefit calculations. Against that background, this article will instead show that the ways in which consumers experience and respond to datafication is linked to a number of broader sociotechnical imaginaries. Based on in-depth user interviews and drawing on previous work on sociotechnical imaginaries, this article develops an analysis of consumers’ multiple imaginaries of data collection practices. Findings show that how consumers approach data collection operations is shaped by sociotechnical imaginaries that were both individually and collectively performed by consumers interacting with and using data-collecting devices.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-19DOI: 10.1080/10253866.2022.2125509
Federica De Molli, M. Vecco, Marta Pizzetti
ABSTRACT Technological and socio-economic changes have forced organizations in the art sector to redefine their function in the market, to strengthen their relationships with consumers and to appeal to a more heterogeneous consumer audience. The physical space of art organizations constitutes a major tool for them to attract and communicate with customers. Based on a multiple case studies approach, this article explores how art auction houses have rearranged their physical space in order to create an intended customer experience based on seduction. Our study contributes to Consumer Culture Theory research by illustrating how both the tangible and intangible features of the spatial setting are orchestrated by managers to facilitate an intended consumer experience. Space is organized in such a way that a heterogeneous customer base can co-participate in the game of seduction, and the artwork maintains its role as a catalyst of the experience.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-16DOI: 10.1080/10253866.2022.2120868
Johanna von Pezold, T. Tse
ABSTRACT Extending critical luxury studies to a non-Western context, this article, using Burberry and other Western brands as examples, theorises how the temporal-spatial luxury subjectivity of homosexual Hong Kong male consumers is constituted through the intersections of British colonial history, nostalgia, the media, their personal and professional background, gender, social class, and emotional experiences. Using a consumer-focused anthropological perspective, we analyse how subjective, context-specific, and interwoven experiences of time and space co-constitute one’s perception of luxury and recurring luxury consumption practices alongside the forces of social structure and individual preferences. Dissecting consumers’ habitual and intimate relations to their wardrobes in the Hong Kong context, this article challenges and refines existing Eurocentric concepts of luxury, and helps clarify how (far) abstract macro-structural forces are consistently materialised into the normative outlook of luxury and micro-individual consumption practices.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1080/10253866.2022.2116429
A. Benali, Olga Kravets
ABSTRACT This paper examines the understanding of poverty emerging in voluntourists’ accounts of their first-hand experiences of poverty alleviation. Based on the ethnography of an orphanage in Nepal, we show that despite voluntourists’ good intentions and even (self-)criticism of the volunteer tourism approach to poverty relief, their accounts tend to consolidate rather regressive ideas about poverty. We draw on postcolonial and post-development theory to illuminate specific ways in which the old Orientalist tropes and discourses of othering are perpetuated in this novel neoliberal form of travelling. We contribute to the critical work on voluntourism and market-based approaches to societal and environmental problems by focusing on poverty as an object of consumption. Such a conception emerges from how the voluntourists’ stories were shaped by and refracted through the structure of voluntourism and the logics of social media. Such refraction leads to systematic depoliticisation of global inequality and responses to poverty.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-29DOI: 10.1080/10253866.2022.2116430
S. Viljoen
ABSTRACT The nineties saw the lifting of sanctions in South Africa which implied an influx of brands that needed appropriate spaces to advertise their wares. For this reason, and the virtual end of censorship, this was the ideal context for international men’s magazines to enter the South African market. Hustler, Penthouse and Playboy all started South African editions as the country transitioned into democracy, manifestly contributing to a globalising of the local, sexual imaginary. The origin story of each publication is told here as a documentation of the “Americanisation” of sex in nineties South Africa, meaning, the way sexual representation was standardised via print capitalism and a postfeminist ethos. The article investigates the ways in which these publications engaged with psycho-affective discourses of progress in order to further and normalise a nationalism caught between the dream of decolonisation and the reality of globalisation.
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