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5. Materializing Difference: Consumer Culture, Politics, and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma. By Péter Berta. Anthropological Horizons Series. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019. xviii, 390 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Plates. Photographs. Tables. Maps. $36.95, paper

Author

Adriana Helbig

Subjects
Cultural Studies, Politics, Index (economics), History, Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous), Anthropology, Bibliography, Ethnic group, Romanian Roma, Consumer Culture
Published
2020

6. From paper to soil: the impact of new EU alcoholic drinks labeling regulations for wine regions

Author

Pablo Alonso González, Eva Parga-Dans, and Xunta de Galicia

Subjects
media_common.quotation_subject, 0211 other engineering and technologies, 0507 social and economic geography, Legislation, 02 engineering and technology, Commission, Terroir, Food safety, Information asymmetry, Labeling regulations, Food Animals, media_common.cataloged_instance, Agricultural policy, Quality (business), European Union, Wine sector, European union, media_common, Wine, Public economics, 05 social sciences, food and beverages, 021107 urban & regional planning, Consumer protection, Business, Consumer culture, 050703 geography, Agronomy and Crop Science, Food Science, Biotechnology
Abstract

This opinion article addresses the implications of recent EU regulations on alcoholic drinks labeling for regional development. In March 2017, the European Commission released a report requiring the mandatory labeling of ingredients and nutritional information for alcoholic beverages within 1 year, putting an end to the exceptionality of this sector compared to other foodstuffs, and responding to pressing demands by European consumer associations and other actors. Pressure from the alcohol sector had delayed EU legislation on the matter and managed to avoid a mandatory labeling provision, instead generating the possibility of making its own regulation proposal within a year. The Commission will assess this proposal in March 2018 and could review or reject it if found to be unsatisfactory. Here, we want to examine the controversy elicited by this new regulation, analyzing the consequences of labeling (or not) in the particular case of wine regions. It shows how the lack of labeling regulations harms winemakers oriented towards the production of quality wines and generates important information asymmetries that can lead to an overall decrease of wine quality. Ultimately, it highlights the relevance of a regional perspective on EU sectoral policies, as these can have unintended effects and lead to contradictory outcomes. The example of wine regions is used to emphasize this issue by showing the need to harmonize regional cohesion and CAP policies with industrial, environmental and consumer protection policies., This work was supported by the Rede de investigación Novos Enfoques da Análise Territorial (NEDAT), funded by the SUG, Xunta de Galicia 2017.

Published
2017

8. PEACE THROUGH CONSUMER EDUCATION: A DISCUSSION PAPER.

Author

McGregor, Sue L. T.

Subjects
BEHAVIOR, CONSUMERS, CONSUMER attitudes, CULTURE, EDUCATION, HUMANISM, TEACHING methods
Abstract

After distinguishing a culture of peace from a consumer culture, elucidating the challenges of finding peace in a consumer society and comparing consumer education to peace education, the paper proposes potential synergy to be gained from merging aligned concepts from peace education and consumer education so we can view consumer education in and of itself as a vehicle for peace. It presents, for the first time, a novel approach to consumer education, framing it as a way to strive for peace. Education about consuming (fact-based) and education for consuming (value- and ideologically-based) are juxtaposed against peace through consumer education, drawing insights from well-established approaches in peace education and sustainability education. Peace through the consumer education process would lead people from being focused on their own self-interest to being concerned for the welfare of others, other species and the planet - peace through consumption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2011
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11. Land of Necessity: Consumer Culture in the United States–Mexico Borderlands. Edited byAlexis McCrossen. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2009. xiii + 414 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.95; paper, $26.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8223-4460-5; paper, 978-0-8223-4475-9

Author

Julio Moreno

Subjects
History, Index (economics), Political science, Media studies, Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous), Art history, Business and International Management, Consumer Culture
Published
2012

12. Sowing the American Dream: How Consumer Culture Took Root in the Rural Midwest. ByDavid Blanke. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2000. 282 pp. Tables, notes, index. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $21.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-821-41347-3; paper 0-8214-1348-1

Author

Thomas A. Woods

Subjects
History, Root (linguistics), Index (economics), media_common.quotation_subject, Media studies, Economic history, Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous), Sowing, Sociology, Business and International Management, Dream, Consumer Culture, media_common
Published
2001

13. "Paper or Plastic?": How We Pay Influences Post-Transaction Connection.

Author

SHAH, AVNI M., EISENKRAFT, NOAH, BETTMAN, JAMES R., and CHARTRAND, TANYA L.

Subjects
*CONSUMER attitudes, *CONSUMER psychology, *PAYMENT, *BRAND loyalty, *CONSUMER culture, *CONSUMER preferences, *EMOTIONS, *PSYCHOLOGY
Abstract

Does the way that individuals pay for a good or service influence the amount of connection they feel after the purchase has occurred? Employing a multi-method approach across four studies, individuals who pay using a relatively more painful form of payment (e.g., cash or check) increase their post-transaction connection to the product they purchased and/or the organization their purchase supports in comparison to those who pay with less painful forms of payment (e.g., debit or credit card). Specifically, individuals who pay with more painful forms of payment increase their emotional attachment to a product, decrease their commitment to nonchosen alternatives, are more likely to publicly signal their commitment to an organization, and are more likely to make a repeat transaction. Moreover, the form of payment influences post-transaction connection even when the objective monetary cost remains constant and when the psychological cost is indirect (i.e., donating someone else's money). Increasing the psychological pain of payment appears to have beneficial consequences with respect to increasing downstream product and brand connection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2016
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16. David Blanke. Sowing the American Dream: How Consumer Culture Took Root in the Rural Midwest. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2000. xiii + 282 pp. ISBN 0-8214-1347-3, $59.95 (cloth); ISBN 0-8214-1348-1, $21.95 (paper). - Ronald R. Kline. Consumers in the Country: Technology and Social Change in Rural America. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xii + 372 pp. ISBN 0-8018-6248-5, $39.95

Author

A. Bix

Subjects
History, Political science, media_common.quotation_subject, Social change, Media studies, Economic history, Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous), Sowing, Rural area, Dream, Consumer Culture, media_common
Published
2001

25. The Cut of His Coat: Men, Dress, and Consumer Culture in Britain, 1860–1914. By Brent Shannon. Athens: Ohio University Press, xii + 252 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-821-41702-9; paper, 0-821-41703-7

Author

Elisabetta Merlo

Subjects
History, Index (economics), media_common.quotation_subject, Media studies, Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous), Art history, Art, Business and International Management, Consumer Culture, media_common
Published
2007

49. Smart consumers come undone: breakdowns in the process of digital agencing

Author

Christian Fuentes

Subjects
Marketing, digital, Consumer Culture, Process (engineering), not all efforts to produce digitalised smart consumers are successful. The aim of this paper is to explore and explain failures in the digital agencing of consumers. Making use of the market studies literature on consumer agencing, Strategy and Management, consumer, Smartphone applications, and drawing on an ethnographic study of ethical shopping apps, they can seldom be configured by consumers. Because of this, the paper explores how as well as under what conditions efforts to enact smart ethical shoppers fail. Results show that it is the immutability of apps that leads to breakdowns in the process of digital agencing. While these apps were scripted to configure consumers, Smartphone application, social and economic process, the apps could not be adjusted to specific situations and consumer-assemblages, Economic process, market studies, While digitalisation is a widespread technological, Ethical consumption, Business, Social Sciences Interdisciplinary, shaping markets and consumers, Business Administration, Företagsekonomi
Abstract

While digitalisation is a widespread technological, social and economic process, shaping markets and consumers, not all efforts to produce digitalised smart consumers are successful. The aim of this paper is to explore and explain failures in the digital agencing of consumers. Making use of the market studies literature on consumer agencing, and drawing on an ethnographic study of ethical shopping apps, the paper explores how as well as under what conditions efforts to enact smart ethical shoppers fail. Results show that it is the immutability of apps that leads to breakdowns in the process of digital agencing. While these apps were scripted to configure consumers, they can seldom be configured by consumers. Because of this, the apps could not be adjusted to specific situations and consumer-assemblages.

Published
2019