Robin Canniford
Biographic Data
| ID | 146506 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robin Canniford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robin |
| FAMILY NAME | Canniford |
| SIGNATURE | CANNIFORD R |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6558-0155 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 157 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Consumer Responsibilization Work: The Everyday Making of Responsible Subjects
How do consumers make themselves responsible for social change? Consumer responsibilization refers to the institutional shaping of individuals into responsible subjects tasked with driving social change through market participation. Prior research shows that responsibilization generates tensions for consumers but says less about how they work through these tensions to craft responsible subjectivities. Drawing on a multi-sited ethnography of zero-…
Digital Singularization: The Socio-Technical Production of Uniqueness
Singularization has long been an essential element of value creation in markets for various types of goods that become prized for their uniqueness, but has only recently gained prominence in digital markets. However, very little is known about how digital goods are singularized (i.e., valorized as unique). We enrich extant research on singularization by shifting attention from physical to digital goods, and by exploring singularization as a socio…
Resonant Awakenings: The Social Lives of Conspiracy Theorists
The moments during which people come to believe in conspiracy theories have been described as 'awakenings'. Current research offers individualised and narrative explanations of awakenings. Yet the social qualities of these experiences have received little attention. Accordingly, this article offers a sociological view of resonant awakenings to explain the processual interactions through which belief in and commitment to conspiracy theories builds…
Becoming Nature: Classifying Encounters in Interspecies Contact Zones
Nature affords transformations to consumers' social, embodied, and temporal experiences. Yet, consumer research has yet to consider how wild species contribute to and are affected by experiential consumption in nature. With data from an ethnography of fly fishing, we theorize human-fish interactions as encounters in interspecies contact zones. Our findings explain how these encounters are established, engendering processes of interspecies becomin…
Against Modern Football: Mobilising Protest Movements in Social Media
Recent debates in sociology consider how Internet communications might catalyse leaderless, open-ended, affective social movements that broaden support and bypass traditional institutional channels to create change. We extend this work into the field of leisure and lifestyle politics with an empirical study of Internet-mediated protest movement, Stand Against Modern Football. We explain how social media facilitate communications that transcend lo…
Assembling Consumption: Researching Actors, Networks and Markets
Marketing the moon: The Selling of the Lunar Program
Ideas, ideals, and ideologies of “the market” permeate late-modern culture. From the micro-contexts of “playground economies” to state-level moves to secure and manage national populations, “the ma
Purifying Practices: How Consumers Assemble Romantic Experiences of Nature
Prior consumer research theorizes nature as an ideal stage for romantic consumption experiences by framing nature as external to culture. The same studies, however, problematize this framing by highlighting the consumer-cultural resources through which nature is harnessed and interpreted. Through an ethnography of surfing culture, this article theorizes consumers' experiences of nature as emerging from assemblages of heterogeneous resources. A th…
Partly primitive: Discursive Constructions of the Domestic Surfer
n \n\t \n\t\t \n\t\t \n\t \n\t \n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\tVarious studies highlight the importance of discourses in consumer culture, yet \nfewer explore the historical development of these phenomena. This paper examines \na long-view of the meanings and uses of primitive discourse in consumer culture. \nAn investigation of the changing representation of indigenous Hawaiian surfing \nwithin Euro-American culture between…
The Marketplace Management of Illicit Pleasure
Through pleasure, a foundational concept in consumer behavior, we offer an analysis of the history, development, and experience of clubbing, the postcursor of rave and the contextual focus of this article. On the basis of a 5-year study primarily involving participant observation and interviewing, we present an analysis of how the clubbing experience is cocreated by promoters, DJs, and clubbers themselves. We develop and demonstrate a biosocial c…
The Marketplace Management of Illicit Pleasure
Through pleasure, a foundational concept in consumer behavior, we offer an analysis of the history, development, and experience of clubbing, the postcursor of rave and the contextual focus of this article. On the basis of a 5-year study primarily involving participant observation and interviewing, we present an analysis of how the clubbing experience is cocreated by promoters, DJs, and clubbers themselves. We develop and demonstrate a biosocial c…
Purifying Practices: How Consumers Assemble Romantic Experiences of Nature
Prior consumer research theorizes nature as an ideal stage for romantic consumption experiences by framing nature as external to culture. The same studies, however, problematize this framing by highlighting the consumer-cultural resources through which nature is harnessed and interpreted. Through an ethnography of surfing culture, this article theorizes consumers' experiences of nature as emerging from assemblages of heterogeneous resources. A th…
Against Modern Football: Mobilising Protest Movements in Social Media
Recent debates in sociology consider how Internet communications might catalyse leaderless, open-ended, affective social movements that broaden support and bypass traditional institutional channels to create change. We extend this work into the field of leisure and lifestyle politics with an empirical study of Internet-mediated protest movement, Stand Against Modern Football. We explain how social media facilitate communications that transcend lo…
Partly primitive: Discursive Constructions of the Domestic Surfer
n \n\t \n\t\t \n\t\t \n\t \n\t \n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\tVarious studies highlight the importance of discourses in consumer culture, yet \nfewer explore the historical development of these phenomena. This paper examines \na long-view of the meanings and uses of primitive discourse in consumer culture. \nAn investigation of the changing representation of indigenous Hawaiian surfing \nwithin Euro-American culture between…
Becoming Nature: Classifying Encounters in Interspecies Contact Zones
Nature affords transformations to consumers' social, embodied, and temporal experiences. Yet, consumer research has yet to consider how wild species contribute to and are affected by experiential consumption in nature. With data from an ethnography of fly fishing, we theorize human-fish interactions as encounters in interspecies contact zones. Our findings explain how these encounters are established, engendering processes of interspecies becomin…
The Marketplace Management of Illicit Pleasure
Through pleasure, a foundational concept in consumer behavior, we offer an analysis of the history, development, and experience of clubbing, the postcursor of rave and the contextual focus of this article. On the basis of a 5-year study primarily involving participant observation and interviewing, we present an analysis of how the clubbing experience is cocreated by promoters, DJs, and clubbers themselves. We develop and demonstrate a biosocial c…
Purifying Practices: How Consumers Assemble Romantic Experiences of Nature
Prior consumer research theorizes nature as an ideal stage for romantic consumption experiences by framing nature as external to culture. The same studies, however, problematize this framing by highlighting the consumer-cultural resources through which nature is harnessed and interpreted. Through an ethnography of surfing culture, this article theorizes consumers' experiences of nature as emerging from assemblages of heterogeneous resources. A th…
Partly primitive: Discursive Constructions of the Domestic Surfer
n \n\t \n\t\t \n\t\t \n\t \n\t \n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\tVarious studies highlight the importance of discourses in consumer culture, yet \nfewer explore the historical development of these phenomena. This paper examines \na long-view of the meanings and uses of primitive discourse in consumer culture. \nAn investigation of the changing representation of indigenous Hawaiian surfing \nwithin Euro-American culture between…
Assembling Consumption: Researching Actors, Networks and Markets
Marketing the moon: The Selling of the Lunar Program
Ideas, ideals, and ideologies of “the market” permeate late-modern culture. From the micro-contexts of “playground economies” to state-level moves to secure and manage national populations, “the ma
Against Modern Football: Mobilising Protest Movements in Social Media
Recent debates in sociology consider how Internet communications might catalyse leaderless, open-ended, affective social movements that broaden support and bypass traditional institutional channels to create change. We extend this work into the field of leisure and lifestyle politics with an empirical study of Internet-mediated protest movement, Stand Against Modern Football. We explain how social media facilitate communications that transcend lo…
Resonant Awakenings: The Social Lives of Conspiracy Theorists
The moments during which people come to believe in conspiracy theories have been described as 'awakenings'. Current research offers individualised and narrative explanations of awakenings. Yet the social qualities of these experiences have received little attention. Accordingly, this article offers a sociological view of resonant awakenings to explain the processual interactions through which belief in and commitment to conspiracy theories builds…
Becoming Nature: Classifying Encounters in Interspecies Contact Zones
Nature affords transformations to consumers' social, embodied, and temporal experiences. Yet, consumer research has yet to consider how wild species contribute to and are affected by experiential consumption in nature. With data from an ethnography of fly fishing, we theorize human-fish interactions as encounters in interspecies contact zones. Our findings explain how these encounters are established, engendering processes of interspecies becomin…
Consumer Responsibilization Work: The Everyday Making of Responsible Subjects
How do consumers make themselves responsible for social change? Consumer responsibilization refers to the institutional shaping of individuals into responsible subjects tasked with driving social change through market participation. Prior research shows that responsibilization generates tensions for consumers but says less about how they work through these tensions to craft responsible subjectivities. Drawing on a multi-sited ethnography of zero-…
Digital Singularization: The Socio-Technical Production of Uniqueness
Singularization has long been an essential element of value creation in markets for various types of goods that become prized for their uniqueness, but has only recently gained prominence in digital markets. However, very little is known about how digital goods are singularized (i.e., valorized as unique). We enrich extant research on singularization by shifting attention from physical to digital goods, and by exploring singularization as a socio…
Sociology (5 works) · Advertising (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification (2 works) · Consumption (sociology) (2 works) · Economic Theory and Institutions (2 works) · Environmental Sustainability in Business (2 works)