ABSTRACT

Assembling Consumption marks a definitive step in the institutionalisation of qualitative business research. By gathering leading scholars and educators who study markets, marketing and consumption through the lenses of philosophy, sociology and anthropology, this book clarifies and applies the investigative tools offered by assemblage theory, actor-network theory and non-representational theory.
 
Clear theoretical explanation and methodological innovation, alongside empirical applications of these emerging frameworks will offer readers new and refreshing perspectives on consumer culture and market societies. This is an essential reading for both seasoned scholars and advanced students of markets, economies and social forms of consumption.

chapter 1|18 pages

Assembling consumption

part I|37 pages

Heterogeneity Relations in process

chapter 2|11 pages

From counterculture movement to mainstream market

Emergence of the U.S. organic food industry

chapter 3|10 pages

Assembling markets and value

part Ii|45 pages

A world of hybrids

chapter 6|15 pages

Home in mobility

An exercise in assemblage thinking

chapter 7|11 pages

Ooo

Oooh!

part Iii|49 pages

Consumers within networks

chapter 8|14 pages

Empathetic engagements and authentic detachments

On horses, leaders and interspecies becomings

chapter 9|16 pages

The digital doppelgänger within

A study on self-tracking and the quantified self movement

chapter 10|18 pages

Post-dualistic consumer research

Nature-cultures and cyborg consumption

part IV|44 pages

Intervening in assemblages

chapter 12|15 pages

Triggers, tensions and trajectories

Towards an understanding of the dynamics of consumer enrolment in uneasily intersecting assemblages

chapter 13|11 pages

A commentary

Where (and what) is the critical in consumer-oriented actor-network theory?