Delphine Dion

Biographic Data

ID117291
NAMEDelphine Dion
GIVEN NAMESDelphine
FAMILY NAMEDion
SIGNATUREDION D
AFFILIATIONSÉcole Supérieure des Sciences Économiques et Commerciales
ORCID0000-0002-9981-3946
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS32
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • The dark side of brilliance: Diamonds as troubled commodities

    Delphine Dion, Roman PavlyuchenkoARTICLEConsumption Markets & Culture2026

    Diamonds are among the most celebrated luxury commodities in global markets, symbolizing love, status, success, and permanence. Yet behind this glamorous façade lies a deeply troubled commodity whose value is historically and contemporarily entangled with colonial violence, cultural oppression, ecological destruction, and moral controversy. This article reframes diamonds not as enduring marketplace icons but as commodities that consistently gener…

  • How the Materials of Objects Shape Consumption: An Affordance Theory Perspective

    Open AccessRoman Pavlyuchenko, Delphine Dion et al.ARTICLEJournal of Consumer Research2025References: 59

    Glasses and stones, metals and textiles, leathers and plastics ... . The materials of objects can shape consumption in a variety of ways. Drawing on affordance theory, the authors conceptualize materials as prominent drivers of object affordances, that is, action (im)possibilities with and around objects. The authors explain when, how, and what materials drive object affordances. And, they explain how consumers actualize (or put to use) materials…

  • Consumer Sovereignty and the Ethics of Recognition

    Open AccessKushagra Bhatnagar, Julien Cayla et al.ARTICLEJournal of Business Ethics2024

  • For the Love of the Game: Moral Ambivalence and Justification Work in Consuming Violence

    Open AccessClément Dubreuil, Delphine Dion et al.ARTICLEJournal of Business Ethics2022References: 11

  • Fetish, Magic, Marketing

    Open AccessE Arnould, Julien Cayla et al.CHAPTERMagical Capitalism2018

  • Fetish, magic, marketing

    Open AccessE Arnould, Julien Cayla et al.ARTICLEAnthropology Today2017Cited by: 2References: 25

    This article identifies specific forms of fetishistic enchantments produced by practices culturally specific to modern consumer culture. The authors show that magical practices are constitutive of two fetishistic marketing constructs: the consumer and the human luxury brand. Marketing magic enacts relations between man and the transcendent by bringing consumer personas 'to life' and manifesting ideals of the beautiful in luxury. Marketing magic i…

  • Home Sweet Messy Home: Managing Symbolic Pollution

    Delphine Dion, Ouidade Sabri et al.ARTICLEJournal of Consumer Research2014Cited by: 19References: 84

    Hanging up our coat, tidying our desk, classifying our books, what meanings do these mundane practices convey? Extending Mary Douglas's work, this article investigates tidiness from the angle of symbolic pollution. Based on photo-elicitation, it shows that, similarly to symbolic pollution described at a macro-social level, tidiness depends on two conditions, namely, a set of classifications and the dangerous transgression of these classifications…

  • Embodied ethnicity: The Ethnic Affiliation Grounded in the Body

    Delphine Dion, Lionel Sitz et al.ARTICLEConsumption Markets & Culture2011Cited by: 11

    Drawing on cultural phenomenology, this paper extends the literature on ethnicity by investigating its embodied dimensions and by studying infra-national referents (e.g., regionalism in France). Findings show the central role of embodiment in ethnicity. Three dimensions of ethnicity are outlined: embodied ethnicity (being-in-the-world), embodied ethnic imaginary (remembering being-in-the-world), and embodied ethnic interactions (being-in-the-worl…