Journal of Consumer Culture March 2016; Vol. 16, No. 1

Journal of Consumer Culture
March 2016; Vol. 16, No. 1

Constructing a “democratic” dreamworld: Carnival cruise ships and an aesthetic of optimism
Stephanie Kolberg

Inconspicuous dressing: A critique of the construction-through-consumption paradigm in the sociology of clothing
Elise van der Laan and Olav Velthuis

Stacking wood and staying warm: Time, temporality and housework around domestic heating systems
Mikko Jalas and Jenny Rinkinen

Commercial pacification: Airline advertising, fear of flight, and the shaping of popular emotion
Richard K Popp

Onerous consumption: The alternative hedonism of off-grid domestic water use
Phillip Vannini and Jonathan Taggart

How consumption prescriptions affect food practices: Assessing the roles of household resources and life-course events
Marie Plessz, Sophie Dubuisson-Quellier, Séverine Gojard, and Sandrine Barrey

Individual choice and social values: Choice in the agrifood sector
Lawrence Busch

Consumption as common sense: Heteronormative hegemony and white wedding desire
Patricia Arend

Moral reactions to reality TV: Television viewers’ endogenous and exogenous loci of morality
Roscoe C Scarborough and Charles Allan McCoy

Smells like teen spirit: Channelling subcultural traditions in contemporary Dr Martens branding
Cath Davies

Constructing and communicating an ethical consumer identity: A Social Identity Approach
Eleni Papaoikonomou, Rosalia Cascon-Pereira, and Gerard Ryan

Forming digital self and parasocial relationships on YouTube
Chih-Ping Chen

Conceptualizing non-voluntary anti-consumption: A practice-based study on market resistance in poor circumstances
Hanna Leipämaa-Leskinen, Henna Syrjälä, and Pirjo Laaksonen

The age of affluence revisited: Council estates and consumer society in Britain, 1950–1970
Matthew Hollow

Living in wealthy neighborhoods increases material desires and maladaptive consumption
Jia Wei Zhang, Ryan T Howell, and Colleen J Howell

Book Review
Patricia Cormack and James F Cosgrave, Desiring Canada: CBC Contests, Hockey Violence, and other Stately Pleasures.
Creighton Connolly