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Informationen zum Autor Dr. Margit Keller is a senior researcher in social communication in the Institute of Social Studies, at the University of Tartu, Estonia. She chairs the Research Network of Sociology of Consumption in the European Sociological Association. Dr. Bente Halkier is a professor of sociology in the Department of Sociology, at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Dr. Terhi-Anna Wilska is a professor of sociology in the Faculty of Social Sciences, at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Dr. Monica Truninger is a senior research fellow in the Institute of Social Sciences, at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. Klappentext Consumption research is burgeoning across a wide range of disciplines. The Routledge Handbook on Consumption gathers experts from around the world to provide a nuanced overview of the latest scholarship in this expanding field. At once ambitious and timely! the volume provides an ideal map for those looking to position their work! find new analytic insights and identify research gaps. With an intuitive thematic structure and resolutely international outlook! it engages with theory and methodology; markets and businesses; policies! politics and the state; and culture and everyday life. It will be essential reading for students and scholars across the social and economic sciences. Zusammenfassung Consumption research is burgeoning across a wide range of disciplines. The Routledge Handbook on Consumption gathers experts from around the world to provide a nuanced overview of the latest scholarship in this expanding field. At once ambitious and timely, the volume provides an ideal map for those looking to position their work, find new analytic insights and identify research gaps. With an intuitive thematic structure and resolutely international outlook, it engages with theory and methodology; markets and businesses; policies, politics and the state; and culture and everyday life. It will be essential reading for students and scholars across the social and economic sciences. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures and tables List of contributors Preface 1 Consumption research revisited: Charting of the territory and introducing the handbook Bente Halkier, Margit Keller, Monica Truninger and Terhi-Anna Wilska PART I Theoretical and methodological perspectives on consumption 2 Consumer culture theory Russell Belk 3 Studying consumption through the lens of practice Alan Warde, Daniel Welch and Jessica Paddock 4 Methods and methods’ debates within consumption research Bente Halkier 5 Ruminations on the current state of consumer ethnography Robert V. Kozinets and Eric J. Arnould PART II Consumers and markets: Introduction 6 Marketing and consumer research: An uneasy relationship Matthias Bode and Søren Askegaard 7 Consumers and brands: How consumers co-create Siwarit Pongsakornrungsilp and Jonathan E. Schroeder 8 From production and consumption to prosumption: A personal journey and its larger context George Ritzer 9 Collaborative consumption and sharing economies Stefan Wahlen and Mikko Laamanen 10 Crises and consumption 1 Sebastian Koos PART III Global challenges in consumption: Introduction 11 Consumption in the web of local and global relations of dominance and belonging Güliz Ger 12 China – the emerging consumer power LiAnne Yu 13 Consumption in Brazil – the field of new consumer studies and the phenomenon of the "new middle classes" Livia Barbosa and John Wilkinson 14 Russia: Postsocialist consumer culture Olga Gurova 15 Bridging North/South divides through consumer driven networks Laura T. Raynolds PART IV Politics and policies of consumption: Introduction ...