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社会学国际顶刊
Journal of Consumer Culture
(《消费文化杂志》)
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▶ ABOUT JCC
Journal of Consumer Culture（《消费文化杂志》，简称JCC）支持和促进以消费和消费文化为研究对象的跨学科研究。该杂志立足全球，旨在对现代消费文化做出批判性反思，理解消费文化在当代社会进程中的重要作用。《泰晤士高等教育增刊》（The Times Higher Education Supplement）曾对该杂志做如下评论：“就凭这本杂志在全球范围内的影响力，它对任何一家图书馆来说都是宝贵的学术资源。”
▶ CURRENT ISSUE
JCC为季刊，最新一期(Volume 24 Issue 2-3, August 2024)分为"Articles”和“Book Reviews”两个栏目，共计7篇文章，详情如下。
Articles
Journal of Consumer Culture
Exploring the process of remote enculturation through heritage possessions: A case study of transracial international adoptees
Kirby M. L. Cook，Michelle R. Nelson
We bring remote enculturation, the process of learning about one’s heritage culture from afar, to the consumption literature. Past research has predominantly explored acculturation, the psychological change as a result of cultural contact, finding that possessions take on important roles as tangible artifacts of cultural experience or identity from heritage or host cultures, without acknowledging the enculturation process. We present a case study exploring the remote enculturation process for transracial international adoptees from Korea, a group of immigrants without access to traditional cultural socialization who have experienced cultural loss. To learn about their heritage culture, they can actively engage in the remote enculturation process. Through interviews, we identify five avenues of remote enculturation and explore how heritage culture possessions contribute to those experiences. The reciprocal relationship between the avenues of remote enculturation and heritage culture possessions reflects these material items as both results and tools that either signify or empower individuals to reclaim their ethnic identity. Examining remote cultural socialization processes and the positive role of possessions in reculturation broadens our understanding of consumption, acculturation, and ethnic identity.
Bad avocados, culinary standards, and knowable knowledge. Culturally appropriate rejections of meat reduction
Thomas A.M. Skelly，Kia Ditlevsen
Cultural conventions are central to tackling unsustainable consumption. In the Global North food conventions are increasingly contested due to the political importance of climate change and the share of global greenhouse gas emissions tied to animal food production and consumption. Significant reductions in meat consumption are touted as pathways to adaptation, but most consumers remain committed to consuming meat-based meals and diets with meat. To explore how consumers handle these issues in today’s cultural context, this article examines culturally appropriate ways of rejecting meat reduction. The theoretical framework is based on interactionism and accounts. The empirical material is from focus group discussions with Danish consumers. We find that in discussions about using plant-based meat, norms of proper culinary conduct are held to be more pressing guides for normative assessment than climate impacts. We also show that the status and function of climate impact “knowledge” is complex and ambiguous. A shared social knowledge of the climate impacts of meat consumption appears to exist alongside “questionable knowledge” and “lack of knowledge”, both of which are referred to excuse, justify, and charge others in reasoning supporting continued meat consumption. Knowledge of climate impacts is accepted when it fits cultural conventions but appears less knowable if it poses challenges to contemporary consumer culture. The article contributes insights into the ways in which cultural conventions and complex knowledge negotiations help to preserve unsustainable consumption.
Digital comfort amidst precarity: New middle classes’ experience of well-being and hardship in pandemic times in Brazil
Marina Frid，Rosana Pinheiro-Machado，Igor Mayworm Perrut，Anna Cristina Pertierra
During the pandemic, digital platforms had a boom in revenue or subscriptions. Despite their increasing relevance, few studies explore how different social strata experience such access. Based on 31 in-depth interviews in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, this article discusses the meanings and practices of digital consumption among the ‘new middle class.’ By focusing on three platforms—ride-sharing apps, food delivery apps, and audio-visual streaming—we interrogate how digital consumption has shaped experiences of well-being and hardship during pandemic times and how it relates to social mobility. We argue that digital platforms brought comfort amidst precarity as mechanisms for accessing relaxing and fun moments while responding to structural issues of Brazilian megacities. Our data also suggest these digital platforms enhance middle-class symbolic status related to individualised and private practices, though collectiveness is still present in participants’ liminal class experience.
#BecomingYou: Discourses of authenticity, work, and success in South African consumer culture
Simóne Plüg，Anthony Collins，Michelle De Jong
Authenticity is now being used to describe things as diverse as politicians, wallets and holiday packages, and claims to authenticity have become increasingly marketable. Media sources from magazines to social media blogs are all inundated with a persisting, recurring message: that tapping into the “real you” will be the liberating force allowing you to live a happy and successful life. This paper draws on a social constructionist theoretical framework and discourse analytic method to critically analyse three interconnected discourses of personal authenticity (as success, change and work) explored in 10 marketing campaigns prominent in South African media. The constructions found in these media are important not just as reflections of current subject positions available in a particular context, but also in the (re)construction of these particular identities and the (re)production of particular social systems. More specifically, in this case, by closely tying authenticity to notions of success, work and change, these discourses produce “good neoliberal subjects”- ambitious, self-regulated, proactive and productive citizens committed to personal progress and contributing to a “functioning” society. In other words, through these discourses, individuals’ personal aspirations (e.g. self-improvement or happiness) become inextricably linked with capitalist modes of being (work and consumption).
Second-hand should come first. Sustainable home consumption beyond the market
Tomás Errázuriz，Florencia Muñoz，Ricardo Greene，Rubén Jacob-Dazarola
Studies on sustainable consumption have predominantly focused on first-hand consumers, whereas research on second-hand consumers has been centered on the act of purchase. This has involved investigations into specific venues such as second-hand markets and thrift shops or the motivations, barriers, and meanings behind such acquisition behaviors. This article strives to enhance the understanding of second-hand consumption within the framework of sustainable development in peripheral countries and in contexts with a limited access to new products. Through interviews conducted in different households across the Metropolitan Region of Chile, we delved into the diverse channels through which used items are exchanged –including waste picking, inheritance, and sharing–. The findings underscore the pivotal role these objects play in numerous households and highlight how certain spatial and social factors –such as urban density, social networks, land use, family structure, and emotional attachment to belongings– are crucial in promoting the sustainable exchange of second-hand goods outside of the market economy.
Book Reviews
Journal of Consumer Culture
Book review: Geopolitical economy of sport
Matthew Hutchinson
Based on: Chadwick S, Widdop PGoldman M (eds). The Geopolitical Economy of Sport: Power, Politics, Money, and the State. Oxford, UK: Routledge, 148–154.
Book Review: The Hipster Economy: Taste and Authenticity in Late Modern Capitalism
D Wood
Based on: Gerosa Alessandro, The Hipster Economy: Taste and Authenticity in Late Modern Capitalism, London: UCL Press, 2024, p. 1–140, ISBN: 1-80008-607-4 (Pbk.), Free download at https://www.uclpress.co.uk/
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