Benét Deberry‐spence
Biographic Data
| ID | 3793243 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benét Deberry‐spence |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benét |
| FAMILY NAME | Deberry‐spence |
| SIGNATURE | SPENCE B D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
After 50 Years, It Is Time to Talk about Value Hierarchy and Inequality
This research enriches the field's perspective on value and argues that to seriously address inequality during the next 50 years, consumer research must explore processual aspects of value hierarchy and consider its relationship to inequality. Doing so recognizes the duality of structures as embodying outcomes and agency, as well as the need to view value not only as what it is but also as what it does. To begin to address limitations in the lite…
Historicizing and authenticating African dress: Diaspora double consciousness and narratives of heritage and community
This research examines consumer authentication in the context of African Americans’ consumption practices and discourses of African dress. Through multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork, our work reveals historical and ideological aspects of authentication. We identify three authentication practices, namely, representing resistance, educating one’s own, and journeying to the motherland. Our data reveal the importance of double consciousness and histo…
Consuming the Dead: Identity and Community Building Practices in Death Rituals
In this article, we examine processes of identity and community building in Asante death rituals where participants metaphorically consume the dead. "Consuming the Dead" refers to how the living makes meaning of death and its associated rituals toward self identification. Our data were derived primarily from participant observations of death rituals and in-depth interviews with informants in Asante, Ghana. We identify "consuming-for-community" an…
Ludic Agency and Retail Spectacle
Spectacular, themed environments have been theorized as places where play is limited and consumer agency is overpowered. In a multiperspectival ethnographic engagement with ESPN Zone Chicago, we find consumers resisting the rules, but only to a limited degree. Spectacular consumption possesses a do-it-yourself quality unrecognized in prior theory. Technology and screens are important to this form of play, which exhibits a transcendent character b…
Being in the Zone: Staging Retail Theater at ESPN Zone Chicago
Experiential consumption is a topic of growing interest in the social scientific and managerial literatures. While consumer experience is profoundly shaped by the built environment, a critical eye has been cast on the oppressive nature of themed environments. While offering multisensory sensual opportunities, themed retail environments cater primarily to the visual impulse and have been theorized to both direct and misdirect attention in ways ben…
Ludic Agency and Retail Spectacle
Spectacular, themed environments have been theorized as places where play is limited and consumer agency is overpowered. In a multiperspectival ethnographic engagement with ESPN Zone Chicago, we find consumers resisting the rules, but only to a limited degree. Spectacular consumption possesses a do-it-yourself quality unrecognized in prior theory. Technology and screens are important to this form of play, which exhibits a transcendent character b…
Being in the Zone: Staging Retail Theater at ESPN Zone Chicago
Experiential consumption is a topic of growing interest in the social scientific and managerial literatures. While consumer experience is profoundly shaped by the built environment, a critical eye has been cast on the oppressive nature of themed environments. While offering multisensory sensual opportunities, themed retail environments cater primarily to the visual impulse and have been theorized to both direct and misdirect attention in ways ben…
Consuming the Dead: Identity and Community Building Practices in Death Rituals
In this article, we examine processes of identity and community building in Asante death rituals where participants metaphorically consume the dead. "Consuming the Dead" refers to how the living makes meaning of death and its associated rituals toward self identification. Our data were derived primarily from participant observations of death rituals and in-depth interviews with informants in Asante, Ghana. We identify "consuming-for-community" an…
After 50 Years, It Is Time to Talk about Value Hierarchy and Inequality
This research enriches the field's perspective on value and argues that to seriously address inequality during the next 50 years, consumer research must explore processual aspects of value hierarchy and consider its relationship to inequality. Doing so recognizes the duality of structures as embodying outcomes and agency, as well as the need to view value not only as what it is but also as what it does. To begin to address limitations in the lite…
Being in the Zone: Staging Retail Theater at ESPN Zone Chicago
Experiential consumption is a topic of growing interest in the social scientific and managerial literatures. While consumer experience is profoundly shaped by the built environment, a critical eye has been cast on the oppressive nature of themed environments. While offering multisensory sensual opportunities, themed retail environments cater primarily to the visual impulse and have been theorized to both direct and misdirect attention in ways ben…
Ludic Agency and Retail Spectacle
Spectacular, themed environments have been theorized as places where play is limited and consumer agency is overpowered. In a multiperspectival ethnographic engagement with ESPN Zone Chicago, we find consumers resisting the rules, but only to a limited degree. Spectacular consumption possesses a do-it-yourself quality unrecognized in prior theory. Technology and screens are important to this form of play, which exhibits a transcendent character b…
Consuming the Dead: Identity and Community Building Practices in Death Rituals
In this article, we examine processes of identity and community building in Asante death rituals where participants metaphorically consume the dead. "Consuming the Dead" refers to how the living makes meaning of death and its associated rituals toward self identification. Our data were derived primarily from participant observations of death rituals and in-depth interviews with informants in Asante, Ghana. We identify "consuming-for-community" an…
Historicizing and authenticating African dress: Diaspora double consciousness and narratives of heritage and community
This research examines consumer authentication in the context of African Americans’ consumption practices and discourses of African dress. Through multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork, our work reveals historical and ideological aspects of authentication. We identify three authentication practices, namely, representing resistance, educating one’s own, and journeying to the motherland. Our data reveal the importance of double consciousness and histo…
After 50 Years, It Is Time to Talk about Value Hierarchy and Inequality
This research enriches the field's perspective on value and argues that to seriously address inequality during the next 50 years, consumer research must explore processual aspects of value hierarchy and consider its relationship to inequality. Doing so recognizes the duality of structures as embodying outcomes and agency, as well as the need to view value not only as what it is but also as what it does. To begin to address limitations in the lite…
Sociology (5 works) · Social science (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification (3 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · History (3 works) · Consumer Retail Behavior Studies (2 works) · Consumption (sociology (2 works)