Consumers & Consumption

Tag: capitalism

  • Consume This! A Capitalist Culture & The Sympathetic Consumer

    Consume This! A Capitalist Culture & The Sympathetic Consumer

    Boycott? Buycott? Why, or why not? In this post, Tad Skotnicki summarizes the main contribution of his first and new book, The Sympathetic Consumer, and ties it to recent incidents in the news where people voice political concerns in consumerist terms.  – Michaela DeSoucey, section chair Consume This! A Capitalist Culture & The Sympathetic Consumer…

  • Consume This! Plumbing of Capitalism: Credit as “Ordinary Consumption”

    This month, Léna Pellandini-Simányi and Zsuzsanna Vargha make use of the practice theory concept of ‘ordinary consumption’ to consider the consumption of credit, and demonstrate the power of thinking through metaphor—in this case, plumbing! —Jennifer Smith Maguire (Section Chair) Revisiting the Plumbing of Capitalism: Credit as “Ordinary Consumption” By Léna Pellandini-Simányi and Zsuzsanna Vargha Household debt has…