Consuming In, and Consumed By, a Trump Economy
*one day pre-American Sociological Association mini-conference*
Friday, August 10, 2018, 8:30 am-5:00 pm
Rutgers University, Camden, NJ
Registration deadline: July 10, 2018
Register here: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3433551
Questions? Contact Kate Cairns (kc848@camden.rutgers.edu)
or Dan Cook (dtcook@camden.rutgers.edu)
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The 2017 ASA Annual Meeting Schedule is now available.
Our section day is Saturday August 12 . The first event is a paper presentation session:
064. Section on Consumers and Consumption. Race, Ethnicity and Inequality in Consumer Culture Palais des congrès de Montréal, 512C Session Organizer: Juliet B. Schor, Boston College
Black American Dreams: An Examination of Black’s Aspirational Consumption. Cassi L. Pittman, Case Western Reserve University
Constructing and Contesting the “Holy Land”: Christian Pilgrimage as a Multifaceted Social Phenomenon. Roger Baumann, Yale University
Key Changes: Record Store Failure in Chicago, Milwaukee, and Detroit, 1970 – 2010. Thomas Anthony Calkins, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Who Owns the Co-op? Race, Class, and Symbolic Boundaries at a Food Co-operative. Sonita Moss, University of Pennsylvania
Discussant: Sofya Aptekar, University of Massachusetts-Boston
Roundtable Session at 4:30. We have three great tables organized: Culture and Consumption, Food and Consumption and Change and Stability and Consumption. Location: Palais des congrès de Montréal, Level 5, 520A.
Business meeting is at 5:30; Reception at 6:30
We will be holding a joint reception with Economic Sociology this year. And this year we are in the conference venue—Palais des congrès de Montréal, 520A J
Finally, on Sunday there are two Regular Sessions on Consumption:
280. Regular Session. Ethics, Localism, and Food Consumption. Sun, August 13, 10:30am to 12:10pm, Palais des congrès de Montréal, Level 5, 512G
281. Regular Session. Advertising and Consumption. Sun, August 13, 2:30 to 4:10pm, Palais des congrès de Montréal, Level 5, 512F
We look forward to seeing you in August!
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Summer 2016
We had a great line up of consumption themed sessions at the 2016 annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, which took place in Seattle in August.
Regular Session, Organized by Juliet Schor.
Conflicting Desires and Prosumer Control: A Case Study of an Online Fansubbing Community – Penn Pantumsinchai, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Middle Class Housing Decisions and the Reproduction of Sociospatial Inequality in Santiago, Chile – Joel P. Stillerman, Grand Valley State University
Romancing the Home: Emotions and the Interactional Creation of Demand in the Housing Market – Max Besbris, New York University
The Private Roots of Public Regulation: The Case of the National Consumers League – Andrew Schrank, Brown University
Discussant Jane Zavisca, University of Arizona
Section Session. Consumers, Social Movements, and New Market Relations
Moral Shock, Corporate Responsibility, and Environmental Disaster – Justin Farrell, Yale University
Aesthetic-led Pathways to Market Change and Sustainability in the Natural Wine Market – Jennifer Smith Maguire, University of Leicester
Temper or Tempered? The Double Edged Sword of Social Movement Anger, Motivation, and Mobilization – Katherine DeCelles; Scott Sonenshein, Rice University; Brayden G. King, Northwestern University
Section Roundtables, Organized by Jennifer Smith Maguire
Table 01. Food, Ethics and Intervention
Table Presider: Ethan D. Schoolman, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Make the Grants, Make the Market: How W.K.Kellogg Foundation Funds the Local Food Market in Michigan – Hui Qian, Michigan State University
Wish You Were Here? Do Farmers’ Markets Contribute to Better Food Access in Food Deserts? – Justin Schupp, Wheaton College
Buying Local as Building Community: Ethical Consumption Among People Who do not Fit the Mold – Ethan D. Schoolman, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Table 02. Food and Stratification
Table Presider: Kaitland Marie Byrd, Virginia Tech
Authentic or Appropriated: The Globalization of Food and Agriculture in the Global and U.S. South – Kaitland Marie Byrd, Virginia Tech
Exploring the Relationship between Drinking Habits and Social Classes in Contemporary Russia – Zoya Kotelnikova, National Research University Higher School of Economics
You Eat What You Are: The Effect of Religious Identity on Halal and Kosher Diet – Kemal Budak, Emory University
Table 03. Consumption and Social Movements
Table Presider: Deborah Miriam Brown, University of Cambridge
Elite Led Social Movements: Co-optation, Counter Movements and Maintenance of the Status Quo – Deborah Miriam Brown, University of Cambridge; Shaz Ansari, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge; Kamal Munir, University of Cambridge
On Carrots and Mobs. The Global (Non) Diffusion of a New Social Movement Tactic – Ion Bogdan Vasi, University of Iowa; Anne Nassauer, Freie Universität Berlin
Voting with Their Feet and Wallets: How Consumers Respond to Corporations’ Political Speech – Steven Andrew Snell, Social Science Research Institute
Table 04. Irony, Individualization, and Narcissism
Table Presider: Bridget M. Costello, King’s College
Irony, Memory, and Memorabilia: Americans Consuming the Cold War – Bridget M. Costello, King’s College
Looking West?: Globalization, the Self, and Individualization in Post-Socialist China – Weiwei Zhang
Spirituality in a Consumer Culture: Happy Consciousness, Narcissism, and the Corruption of Consumer Desire. – Hans Tokke, New York City College of Technology- CUNY
Table 05. Changing Views of the Consumer
Table Presider: Joahna C. Rocchio, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Managing the 21st Century Consumer: Representations of Consumers in Harvard Business Review (2000 – 2014) – Joahna C. Rocchio, University of Hawaii at Manoa
The Sovereign and the Victim: Comparing Consumer Policies in Mexico and Argentina in the 1970s – Daniel G. Fridman, University of Texas – Austin; Pilar Zazueta, University of Texas at Austin
Section Session. Intersections of Consumption and Production
Belong Anywhere? How Airbnb is Dismantling Generations of Civil Rights in the Name of Progress – Alexandrea J Ravenelle, CUNY: The Graduate Center
Urban Shopping Streets in Flux: Williamsburg and the Lower East Side – Sara Lucia Martucci, CUNY Graduate Center
Rethinking Productivity in an Economy of Taste: YouTube’s “Beauty Gurus” – Ulrike Bialas, Princeton University
It Takes More Than a Chef: The Neglected Constituents of a City’s Restaurant Scene – John T. Lang, Occidental College
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