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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 287–299.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Elspeth Probyn This article reframes fisheries sustainability as a matter of production and consumption. It argues that only a more-than-human approach that takes seriously the entanglement of all oceanic entities—fish, fishers, water—can tackle the sustainability of fish. In order to bring...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (2): 217–232.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Ann Brooks; Lionel Wee In this article, we identify two models of consumer culture: the more familiar appeasement model where the “customer is king,” as well as a less established and recently emergent achievement model where the consumer’s efforts in consummating the act of consumption are lauded...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (3): 340–345.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Anna Lavis; Emma-Jayne Abbots It is in this rather bleak analysis that a core value and political potentiality of this special section lies. Corporeal consumption draws to the fore the ethical imperative to and also possibilities of engaging with how human and nonhuman bodies consume...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 246–259.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Felicity J. Colman Paul Virilio’s work on dromology provides a model of a political economy. Called the “dromoeconomic” system, it incorporates aspects of temporality, consumption, and technology, arguably three of the core factors for consideration of the future organization of human societies...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (3): 367–386.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Andrea Pavoni This article explores the making and tasting of wine through the anonymous processes of nonhuman consumption that participate in the production of its relational ontology (the terroir) and shape its visceral encounter with the human tongue (taste). First, the author defines a notion...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 110–129.
Published: 01 March 2016
... current critical discussions of luxury and inequality. Since the 1990s, anthropology has seen a boom in consumption and material culture studies coterminous with the rise of identity politics and its celebration of diversity. In anthropological theory, as well, linking consumption to identity has stolen...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 83–97.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Jonathan Faiers Disruptive luxury is a recent addition to the lexicon of luxury. Understood as both a practical and philosophical antidote to luxury’s entrenched patterns of production and consumption, the term disruptive is proving to be as indeterminate as the word luxury itself, with its complex...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (1): 95–122.
Published: 01 March 2007
... consumption by acceleration, we argue, both occludes the lack of substantive change actually occurring while simultaneously delimiting possibilities of thinking of and enacting the truly radical. We also consider how this setup is maintained, thus attempting to shed some light on why we are seemingly running...
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (3): 335–358.
Published: 01 November 2009
... has also created immense “virtual” spatio-temporalities based on the Internet that are almost wholly commodified. Moreover, these spatio-temporalities, both virtual and real-world, function at accelerated speeds, a “network speed” to produce forms of culture-production and consumption that no longer...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 48–63.
Published: 01 March 2019
... to modern times is reviewed. Based on an elaboration of the significant positive and negative consequences of the production and consumption of luxuries, the moral standing of contemporary luxury and the questions it raises for the super-rich are discussed. The author argues that the moral standing...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (3): 289–302.
Published: 01 November 2019
.... By contrast, Negri eschews such tropes of alienation and dialectics, focuses more on “post-Fordist” conditions of production/consumption, and, taking his cue from the “ontological materialism” of nineteenth-century Italian poet and essayist Leopardi, views boredom in more complex and multifaceted terms...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (3): 346–366.
Published: 01 November 2020
..., the authors aim to indicate how attending to affective political ecologies can further our understanding of the consumption practices of those in precarious and stressful social contexts, and they offer additional insight into how the entanglement of the biological and the social is experienced in everyday...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (3): 387–407.
Published: 01 November 2020
... traceable to traditional agricultural motifs, metaphors relating to fat often connote processes of fattening that evoke ideas about consumption, as well as devouring and animality. To see how the fat imaginary informs contemporary political discourses, the article probes the “fat American” as a consuming...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (1): 12–27.
Published: 01 March 2022
... appear far removed from the everyday lives of poor and marginalized rural women. In this contribution, the author foregrounds rural women's pleasure-seeking practices, in consumption, fun, and friendship, which were the unanticipated outcomes of their involvement with a local NGO seeking to empower poor...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (2): 345–357.
Published: 01 July 2012
...-hop: Paul Gilroy's 2011 Darker than Blue , which sees in the genre empty posturing and codes of conspicuous consumption; the 2012 edition of Murray Forman and Mark Anthony Neal's anthology That's the Joint! The Hip-Hop Studies Reader , which with a wide array of essays and interviews seeks...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 54–65.
Published: 01 March 2016
... this practice exposes how consumption of luxury lines of material goods—particularly those goods produced by companies that make a claim to benevolence—has involved a false sense of accord narrated by tales of community-producing luxury that purport to be practicing regard for others in the practice...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 66–82.
Published: 01 March 2016
... of luxus, which is beyond the relative luxury we might associate with the possession of this or that object, in the contemporary context of global capitalism. I explore neoliberal capitalism, where consumption is endless, through reference to Georges Bataille’s The Accursed Share , where economy is less...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (2): 231–248.
Published: 01 July 2007
... of “life politics” ( Giddens 1991 ) and “individualization” ( Beck and Beck-Gernsheim 2002 ). The article argues that the concept of lifestyle extends beyond the pursuit of leisure and consumption practices and that lifestyle politics involves the expression of individual rights, the management of risk...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 163–183.
Published: 01 July 2015
... with or at least decode. Mosse engages the critical points at which given sign systems break down, become porous or malleable, and where glitches and short circuits upset our blasé habits and routines of consumption. His installations pose questions about how we read meaning in the texts and images that structure...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (1): 111–124.
Published: 01 March 2010
... in contemporary culture and how viewers appropriate, or not, the particular lifestyles that are communicated across popular media forms. © BERG 2010 PRINTED IN THE UK 2011 celebrity lifestyle consumption taste television We made sauce mornay endlessly at catering college, as we did glossy...
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