Bente Halkier
Biographic Data
| ID | 175275 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bente Halkier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bente |
| FAMILY NAME | Halkier |
| SIGNATURE | HALKIER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7010-7012 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 453 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Capabilities and practices: Performing ‘proper’ food practices from a deprived social position
Food practices found among disadvantaged population groups are often deemed inappropriate in terms of healthiness and culinary standard. Here, we analyse the appropriateness of food practices in disadvantaged households according to those performing them. Following a call to employ the Capability Approach (CA) to strengthen the focus on social inequality within newer social practice theories (SPT), we analyse data from in-depth interviews about f…
Institutional material arrangements: An approach for identifying the conditions for the transition to sustainable consumption
Within theories of practice, there is a tradition for conceptualising how practices unfold within material arrangements. Furthermore, consumer studies informed by theories of practice include a growing body of work which focuses on how supplier and professional practices shape everyday practices which involve consumption. With this foundation in practice theory, the article combines existing understandings of stabilisation of practices into a sho…
There is Always Food in the Freezer”. Negotiations of Respectability, Health and Food Among Women in Disadvantaged Conditions
Drawing on qualitative in-depth interviews with 15 women living in low-income households in Denmark, this article explores how disadvantaged women discursively negotiate their own respectability in conditions that do not allow them to keep up with social norms concerning health, proper eating, and being a good citizen. Our findings show that the women refer to their own socially marginalized position in society and difficulties in living up to di…
Social network research and meat reduction – An overview of research directions and results from a study in Denmark
Reducing the current level of meat consumption would reap significant environmental benefits. However, a consumer transition towards more plant-rich eating is lagging, and the social sciences have had limited success in understanding behavioural change in this area. Here, we advocate a research agenda focussing on the role social networks could play in encouraging consumers to eat less meat. We present main research directions in social network t…
The convenience of gaming
The frequency of video game consumption is a contested topic among scholars. In existing research, the extent of video game use is often related to the terminologies ‘excessive gaming’, ‘video game addiction’ and ‘problem gaming’. Yet the socio-material and practical qualities of gaming in everyday life have received little theoretical and empirical attention in the research on frequent video gaming. By considering these issues this article aims …
Pathways to more resource-intensive consumption through convenient bundles and complexes of food, mobility and housing practices
In contemporary society, it is widely acknowledged that current patterns of consumption are fundamentally unsustainable because a large percentage of emissions comes from consumption related to food, mobility and housing practices. However, current debates and existing research on the need to change daily practices to address climate change tend to focus on single consumption activities, thereby paying too little attention to how practices are em…
Dietary transition requires work: Exploring the practice-transition processes of young Danish meat reducers
Many studies on the subject have focused on the characteristics and choices of individual consumers to explain their food consumption habits. Instead, this paper focuses on the interrelated everyday food practices of shopping, cooking, and eating, and what practice-demands processes of transition pose for practitioners when they reduce their meat consumption. We do this by analyzing interview data from 27 interviews with young people in Denmark (…
Exploring routinization and reflexivity in change and reproduction of consumption towards lower climate impact
A change to less carbon-intensive everyday practices is needed to address climate change. Based on existing literature, we discuss which relations between dynamics of routinization and reflexivity that potentially constitute reproduction and change of practices related to food, mobility and housing. Looking across different consumption fields can help clarify more general insights on the importance of routinization and reflexivity in reproduction…
Exploring everyday life dynamics in meat reduction - A cluster analysis of flexitarians in Denmark
Exploring everyday life dynamics in meat reduction - a cluster analysis of flexitarians in Denmark. Flexitarians are attracting increasing attention in the research on meat reduction. But there has been limited focus on comprehensive understandings of a broader range of dynamics that can work as barriers and facilitators for meat reduction. In this article, we use social practice theory (SPT) as a comprehensive approach to barriers and facilitato…
Pathways of less healthy diets. An investigation of the everyday food practices of men and women in low income households
Dietary health is a key theme of health policy and public debates on health and inequality. The social gradient in dietary health is evident, but less is known about the processes in everyday life through which less healthy diets are shaped among people with low socio-economic status. In this mixed methods study we recruited 30 men and women living in low income households in Denmark and combined qualitative interviews about household practices w…
Mundane normativity and the everyday handling of contested food consumption
Much contemporary public debate focuses on food consumption. Societal and individual health, risk, climate change, sustainability, animal welfare and food quality are all issues which influence the culturally established or traditional food routines practised in every day life. This cultural contestation and debate suggests that consumption in everyday life is already a site of normative action. Yet existing research has focused largely either on…
Hybridity and change in cooking skills in everyday life: Conceptual contributions from a study of cooking with meal-box schemes
Linking socioeconomic disadvantage to healthiness of food practices: Can a practice-theoretical perspective sharpen everyday life analysis
Food is one of the key themes in public health policy and debates over inequalities in health. In this article, we argue that more research is needed to understand how socioeconomic disadvantage is translated into low degrees of healthiness. We suggest that everyday life analysis may be sharpened by way of drawing upon a practice-theoretical perspective on the mundane processes involved in this translation. We base our suggestion on a small revie…
Introduction to the Special Issue: Renewing Theories of Practice and Reappraising the Cultural
This short article introduces the Special Issue 'Renewing Theories of Practice and Reappraising the Cultural'. We first discuss the 'practice turn' in the sociology of consumption. We introduce three lacunae that advocates have identified in contemporary theories of practice that animate the contributions of the Special Issue: around the theorisation of culture, economy and the reflexive individual. We go on to discuss the place of culture in the…
Social Interaction as Key to Understanding the Intertwining of Routinized and Culturally Contested Consumption
A number of concepts and concerns from cultural sociology were thrown out as babies with the bathwater when the sociological study of consumption became dominated by the use of practice theories. The concept of social interaction is one of them, perhaps due to assumptions about its association with symbolic and discursive interaction and reflexivity. In the field of sociological analysis of food conduct, however, there is a need for addressing bo…
Public communication campaigns as mundane category
This article examines the public connection and understanding of public communication campaigns. Public communication campaigns are widespread, but the audience dimension of the campaign category itself is still a blind spot in research. Drawing on focus group interviews and a survey among Danish citizens, the article shows that public campaigns are recognized as a mundane communicative category. Moreover, drawing on theories of public connection…
Political Food Consumerism between Mundane Routines and Organizational Alliance-Building
Food consumption is a mundane, embodied type of consumption as well as a target of multiple moral contestations. Politicized quite early, food consumption has remained a regular example of political consumerism, framed through a number of societal issues such as sustainability and global justice. This chapter shows that the research on political food consumerism is characterized by three tendencies. First, across other differences, researchers ap…
Mundane negotiations around official Danish dietary advice: Connection, expert knowledge, and everyday agency
In this article, I argue that citizens’ relations with, and uses of, dietary health campaigns may be more heterogeneous than just pragmatic adaptation or tactics of resistance. The article takes a practice theoretical approach in order to focus on the links between the existing food practices and the socially expectable and normatively acceptable ways of performing healthier shopping, cooking, and eating. The empirical study, on which the article…
Questioning the ‘Gold Standard’ Thinking in Qualitative Methods from a Practice Theoretical Perspective: Towards Methodological Multiplicity
Methods and methods’ debates within consumption research
The international social scientific research on consumption and consumers is such a wide and interdisciplinary field that it is almost a mission impossible to construct an overview of all the different approaches to methodological design and use of methods applied within the field, which range from highly quantitative consumer behaviour analysis to deeply qualitative ethnographic consumption process studies. This chapter builds upon the insights …
Consumption research revisited
In Consumption the contributions are grouped under three headings, reflecting three interrelated aspects of consumption processes, bearing close affinity to the specific definition: acquisition, appropriation and appreciation . This chapter focuses on issues related to consumption, and especially to fascinate the more uninitiated reader, a graduate student perhaps with the burgeoning and intriguing field of consumption studies. It aims to de-ossi…
Routledge Handbook on Consumption
Mundane science use in a practice theoretical perspective: Different understandings of the relations between citizen-consumers and public communication initiatives build on scientific claims
Public communication initiatives play a part in placing complicated scientific claims in citizen-consumers’ everyday contexts. Lay reactions to scientific claims framed in public communication, and attempts to engage citizens, have been important subjects of discussion in the literatures of public understanding and public engagement with science. Many of the public communication initiatives, however, address lay people as consumers rather than ci…
Meal box schemes a convenient way to avoid convenience food? Uses and understandings of meal box schemes among Danish consumers
Normalising Convenience Food: The Expectable and Acceptable Places of Convenient Food in Everyday Life among Young Danes
The construction of convenience food as a social and cultural category for food provisioning, cooking and eating seems to slide between or across understandings of what is considered “proper food” in the existing discourses in everyday life and media. This article sheds light upon some of the social and cultural normativities around convenience food by describing the ways in which convenience food forms part of the daily life of young Danes. Theo…
Methodological challenges in using practice theory in consumption research. Examples from a study on handling nutritional contestations of food consumption
In this article, we discuss the challenges of analytical translations between practice theory and empirical research methods in consumption research. We argue that a social constructivist interpretation of practice theory can be particularly useful in enabling consumption researchers to carry out empirical studies that are different from mainstream approaches to consumer culture. Such mainstream approaches typically privilege either individual co…
Applying practice theory to the study of consumption: Theoretical and methodological considerations
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Methodological Practicalities in Analytical Generalization
In this article, I argue that the existing literature on qualitative methodologies tend to discuss analytical generalization at a relatively abstract and general theoretical level. It is, however, not particularly straightforward to "translate" such abstract epistemological principles into more operative methodological strategies for producing analytical generalizations in research practices. Thus, the aim of the article is to contribute to the d…
Focus groups as social enactments: Integrating Interaction and Content in the Analysis of Focus Group Data
This article argues that there is a need for more methodological discussions and examples upon how to include the social interaction element in analysing focus group data. It is suggested that from a practice theoretical perspective, focus group data (like other types of qualitative data) are understood as social enactments. The article gives examples of four different but related methodological tools of analysis that can help integrating interac…
Political Virtue and Shopping: Individuals, Consumerism and Collective Action
Political Virtue and Shopping: Individuals, Consumerism and Collective Action. By Michele Micheletti. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. 247p. $55.00. Although this book is complex and multifaceted, there is one central argument running through it. This argument consists of the claim that consumption practices can be understood as political practices, and that such consumption practices are significant for societal development. For example, when…
Normalising Convenience Food: The Expectable and Acceptable Places of Convenient Food in Everyday Life among Young Danes
The construction of convenience food as a social and cultural category for food provisioning, cooking and eating seems to slide between or across understandings of what is considered “proper food” in the existing discourses in everyday life and media. This article sheds light upon some of the social and cultural normativities around convenience food by describing the ways in which convenience food forms part of the daily life of young Danes. Theo…
A practice theoretical perspective on everyday dealings with environmental challenges of food consumption
Expectations concerning the contribution of ordinary consumers to solving a broad array of societal problems have risen. This is particularly prevalent in issues such as environmental sustainability and food consumption, where ordinary food routines are being challenged through mediatised discourses on the environmental responsibilities of food consumers. In this article, in order to discuss the potential of ordinary food consumers in contributin…
Suitable Cooking: P erformances and P ositionings in C ooking P ractices among D anish W omen
This article presents and discusses the patterns in how cooking is performed by female readers of a Danish lifestyle magazine, and how these women as cooking practitioners position themselves in relation to homemade meals. In terms of cultural theory, the research builds on a practice-theoretical perspective to cooking, while the empirical study of cooking is based on in-depth qualitative methods. The analytical patterns presented and discussed i…
Consuming Ambivalences: Consumer handling of environmentally related risks in food
Consumers handle politicized consumption practices such as food risks in more ambivalent ways than is often assumed in public debate about such issues. This article attempts to show the analytical relevance of clarifying and using the concept of ambivalence in analysis of consumer culture. In particular, this is because societal problems of ambivalence are often framed as personal problems for consumers via campaigns to make consumers discipline …
Social Interaction as Key to Understanding the Intertwining of Routinized and Culturally Contested Consumption
A number of concepts and concerns from cultural sociology were thrown out as babies with the bathwater when the sociological study of consumption became dominated by the use of practice theories. The concept of social interaction is one of them, perhaps due to assumptions about its association with symbolic and discursive interaction and reflexivity. In the field of sociological analysis of food conduct, however, there is a need for addressing bo…
Trust in food safety in Russia, Denmark and Norway
In this paper we argue that institutional conditions should be taken into consideration when consumers trust in food safety is analysed. Our survey results demonstrate that levels of trust in food safety varies considerably across our three selected countries: Russian consumers expressing the lowest level of trust, Norwegian consumers the highest and Danish consumers expressing levels of trust in food safety which were in between. We find empiric…
Dietary transition requires work: Exploring the practice-transition processes of young Danish meat reducers
Many studies on the subject have focused on the characteristics and choices of individual consumers to explain their food consumption habits. Instead, this paper focuses on the interrelated everyday food practices of shopping, cooking, and eating, and what practice-demands processes of transition pose for practitioners when they reduce their meat consumption. We do this by analyzing interview data from 27 interviews with young people in Denmark (…
Exploring everyday life dynamics in meat reduction - A cluster analysis of flexitarians in Denmark
Exploring everyday life dynamics in meat reduction - a cluster analysis of flexitarians in Denmark. Flexitarians are attracting increasing attention in the research on meat reduction. But there has been limited focus on comprehensive understandings of a broader range of dynamics that can work as barriers and facilitators for meat reduction. In this article, we use social practice theory (SPT) as a comprehensive approach to barriers and facilitato…
Introduction to the Special Issue: Renewing Theories of Practice and Reappraising the Cultural
This short article introduces the Special Issue 'Renewing Theories of Practice and Reappraising the Cultural'. We first discuss the 'practice turn' in the sociology of consumption. We introduce three lacunae that advocates have identified in contemporary theories of practice that animate the contributions of the Special Issue: around the theorisation of culture, economy and the reflexive individual. We go on to discuss the place of culture in the…
Meal box schemes a convenient way to avoid convenience food? Uses and understandings of meal box schemes among Danish consumers
Shifting responsibilities for food safety in Europe: An introduction
Researching habits: Advances in linguistic and embodied research practice
The articles in this special issue have one thing in common: all engage with the epistemological and methodological concerns of researching habits, routines and practices. However, in developing th
Exploring routinization and reflexivity in change and reproduction of consumption towards lower climate impact
A change to less carbon-intensive everyday practices is needed to address climate change. Based on existing literature, we discuss which relations between dynamics of routinization and reflexivity that potentially constitute reproduction and change of practices related to food, mobility and housing. Looking across different consumption fields can help clarify more general insights on the importance of routinization and reflexivity in reproduction…
Hybridity and change in cooking skills in everyday life: Conceptual contributions from a study of cooking with meal-box schemes
Public communication campaigns as mundane category
This article examines the public connection and understanding of public communication campaigns. Public communication campaigns are widespread, but the audience dimension of the campaign category itself is still a blind spot in research. Drawing on focus group interviews and a survey among Danish citizens, the article shows that public campaigns are recognized as a mundane communicative category. Moreover, drawing on theories of public connection…
Pathways to more resource-intensive consumption through convenient bundles and complexes of food, mobility and housing practices
In contemporary society, it is widely acknowledged that current patterns of consumption are fundamentally unsustainable because a large percentage of emissions comes from consumption related to food, mobility and housing practices. However, current debates and existing research on the need to change daily practices to address climate change tend to focus on single consumption activities, thereby paying too little attention to how practices are em…
Mundane normativity and the everyday handling of contested food consumption
Much contemporary public debate focuses on food consumption. Societal and individual health, risk, climate change, sustainability, animal welfare and food quality are all issues which influence the culturally established or traditional food routines practised in every day life. This cultural contestation and debate suggests that consumption in everyday life is already a site of normative action. Yet existing research has focused largely either on…
Linking socioeconomic disadvantage to healthiness of food practices: Can a practice-theoretical perspective sharpen everyday life analysis
Food is one of the key themes in public health policy and debates over inequalities in health. In this article, we argue that more research is needed to understand how socioeconomic disadvantage is translated into low degrees of healthiness. We suggest that everyday life analysis may be sharpened by way of drawing upon a practice-theoretical perspective on the mundane processes involved in this translation. We base our suggestion on a small revie…
Can consumers save the world? Everyday food consumption and dilemmas of sustainability
Background Global consequences of environmental problems, particularly climate change, affect both political agendas and people’s everyday life. As food consumption forms a significant part of the environmental load of households (Carlsson-Kanyama & Gonzalez, 2009; Duchin, 2005), the sustainability of what we eat has become a topical question. A new ethics of food is emerging (Coff, 2006): food consumers are encouraged to “to develop a moral Self…
Trusting, Complex, Quality Conscious or Unprotected: Constructing the food consumer in different European national contexts
In the new European food policy following the BSE crisis, the consumer is called upon to take an active and responsible role. But in the political and organizational restructuring processes following the European Union policy, diverse constructions of the food consumer can be identified in different national contexts. The article analyses the discursive framings of the food consumer in four national settings: Norway, Denmark, Italy and Portugal, …
Consuming Ambivalences: Consumer handling of environmentally related risks in food
Consumers handle politicized consumption practices such as food risks in more ambivalent ways than is often assumed in public debate about such issues. This article attempts to show the analytical relevance of clarifying and using the concept of ambivalence in analysis of consumer culture. In particular, this is because societal problems of ambivalence are often framed as personal problems for consumers via campaigns to make consumers discipline …
Political Virtue and Shopping: Individuals, Consumerism and Collective Action
Political Virtue and Shopping: Individuals, Consumerism and Collective Action. By Michele Micheletti. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. 247p. $55.00. Although this book is complex and multifaceted, there is one central argument running through it. This argument consists of the claim that consumption practices can be understood as political practices, and that such consumption practices are significant for societal development. For example, when…
Trust in food safety in Russia, Denmark and Norway
In this paper we argue that institutional conditions should be taken into consideration when consumers trust in food safety is analysed. Our survey results demonstrate that levels of trust in food safety varies considerably across our three selected countries: Russian consumers expressing the lowest level of trust, Norwegian consumers the highest and Danish consumers expressing levels of trust in food safety which were in between. We find empiric…
Tillid til mad: Forbrug mellem dagligdag og politisering
Bente Halkier og Lotte Holm: Trust in food: Food consumption practice Food consumption has become part of the political agenda in Denmark, in that responsibilities for environmental and similar concerns are increasingly being transferred to ordinary consumers. This article discusses how this new political agenda has influenced the every day understandings and practices as regards food consumption. It commences with a discussion of the concept of …
Shifting responsibilities for food safety in Europe: An introduction
Trusting, Complex, Quality Conscious or Unprotected: Constructing the food consumer in different European national contexts
In the new European food policy following the BSE crisis, the consumer is called upon to take an active and responsible role. But in the political and organizational restructuring processes following the European Union policy, diverse constructions of the food consumer can be identified in different national contexts. The article analyses the discursive framings of the food consumer in four national settings: Norway, Denmark, Italy and Portugal, …
Det sociale som performativitet – et praksisteoretisk perspektiv på analyse og metode
Artiklen introducerer de nyeste internationale forsøg på at syntetisere teoretiske elementer fra blandt andre Bourdieu, Butler og Giddens til praksisteori. Praksisteori er en særlig form for kulturteori, hvor det sociale placeres i performative processer. Forfatternes position fremhæver, at praksisteori bør ses som en særlig analytisk optik, kaldet et praksisteoretisk perspektiv. Derfor kan perspektivet tilpasses analytisk til specifikke empirisk…
Suitable Cooking: P erformances and P ositionings in C ooking P ractices among D anish W omen
This article presents and discusses the patterns in how cooking is performed by female readers of a Danish lifestyle magazine, and how these women as cooking practitioners position themselves in relation to homemade meals. In terms of cultural theory, the research builds on a practice-theoretical perspective to cooking, while the empirical study of cooking is based on in-depth qualitative methods. The analytical patterns presented and discussed i…
Eu Food Safety Policy
Food safety is a vital concern and a salient regulatory arena, with important implications for consumers, producers and retailers of food. Following the BSE crisis in 1996, and with the alleged aim to restore consumer confidence in food, national and fragmented food safety regulations across Europe were transformed into a new European-wide food regulatory system. This included a new legal and regulatory framework, a new institutional set-up of pu…
A practice theoretical perspective on everyday dealings with environmental challenges of food consumption
Expectations concerning the contribution of ordinary consumers to solving a broad array of societal problems have risen. This is particularly prevalent in issues such as environmental sustainability and food consumption, where ordinary food routines are being challenged through mediatised discourses on the environmental responsibilities of food consumers. In this article, in order to discuss the potential of ordinary food consumers in contributin…
Can consumers save the world? Everyday food consumption and dilemmas of sustainability
Background Global consequences of environmental problems, particularly climate change, affect both political agendas and people’s everyday life. As food consumption forms a significant part of the environmental load of households (Carlsson-Kanyama & Gonzalez, 2009; Duchin, 2005), the sustainability of what we eat has become a topical question. A new ethics of food is emerging (Coff, 2006): food consumers are encouraged to “to develop a moral Self…
Can consumers save the world
Focus groups as social enactments: Integrating Interaction and Content in the Analysis of Focus Group Data
This article argues that there is a need for more methodological discussions and examples upon how to include the social interaction element in analysing focus group data. It is suggested that from a practice theoretical perspective, focus group data (like other types of qualitative data) are understood as social enactments. The article gives examples of four different but related methodological tools of analysis that can help integrating interac…
Doing ‘healthier’ food in everyday life? A qualitative study of how Pakistani Danes handle nutritional communication
Denmark has a strong tradition of public health communication, but the majority of these initiatives draw upon the deficit model where the so called target groups are seen as passive recipients that lack resources to change their lifestyle. The article contributes to the critique of the deficit model in public health communication by the way of two steps. First, by arguing in favour of using a contextual theoretical perspective, that includes mul…
Applying practice theory to the study of consumption: Theoretical and methodological considerations
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
Methodological challenges in using practice theory in consumption research. Examples from a study on handling nutritional contestations of food consumption
In this article, we discuss the challenges of analytical translations between practice theory and empirical research methods in consumption research. We argue that a social constructivist interpretation of practice theory can be particularly useful in enabling consumption researchers to carry out empirical studies that are different from mainstream approaches to consumer culture. Such mainstream approaches typically privilege either individual co…
Rethinking Intercultural Network Communication as a Resource in Public Intercultural Health Communication
There have been few studies on intercultural network communication. This article explores how intercultural network communication can become a key element in a re-thinking of public intercultural health communication. The article gives a critical review on previous attempts to conceptualise intercultural network communication and suggests a qualitative practice theoretical approach as an alternative to the former quantitative analysis. Focusing o…
Methodological Practicalities in Analytical Generalization
In this article, I argue that the existing literature on qualitative methodologies tend to discuss analytical generalization at a relatively abstract and general theoretical level. It is, however, not particularly straightforward to "translate" such abstract epistemological principles into more operative methodological strategies for producing analytical generalizations in research practices. Thus, the aim of the article is to contribute to the d…
Researching habits: Advances in linguistic and embodied research practice
The articles in this special issue have one thing in common: all engage with the epistemological and methodological concerns of researching habits, routines and practices. However, in developing th
Yves-Chantal Gagnon, the Case Study as Research Method: A Practical Handbook and Gary Thomas, how to Do Your Case Study: a Guide for Students & Researchers
Normalising Convenience Food: The Expectable and Acceptable Places of Convenient Food in Everyday Life among Young Danes
The construction of convenience food as a social and cultural category for food provisioning, cooking and eating seems to slide between or across understandings of what is considered “proper food” in the existing discourses in everyday life and media. This article sheds light upon some of the social and cultural normativities around convenience food by describing the ways in which convenience food forms part of the daily life of young Danes. Theo…
Questioning the ‘Gold Standard’ Thinking in Qualitative Methods from a Practice Theoretical Perspective: Towards Methodological Multiplicity
Methods and methods’ debates within consumption research
The international social scientific research on consumption and consumers is such a wide and interdisciplinary field that it is almost a mission impossible to construct an overview of all the different approaches to methodological design and use of methods applied within the field, which range from highly quantitative consumer behaviour analysis to deeply qualitative ethnographic consumption process studies. This chapter builds upon the insights …
Consumption research revisited
In Consumption the contributions are grouped under three headings, reflecting three interrelated aspects of consumption processes, bearing close affinity to the specific definition: acquisition, appropriation and appreciation . This chapter focuses on issues related to consumption, and especially to fascinate the more uninitiated reader, a graduate student perhaps with the burgeoning and intriguing field of consumption studies. It aims to de-ossi…
Routledge Handbook on Consumption
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