Stockholm university

Research group Consumer Culture Theory Research Group

What unites the researchers in this research group is that we share a vision of consumer culture as the interconnected system of commercially produced objects, images, and texts that various market actors use to construct and produce practices, identities and meanings.

Group description

A common theme in our research is that we consider marketing and consumption as socio-cultural and political phenomena which are assembled, embodied and practiced and construct and communicate meaning in society, both at an individual and a collective level. Theoretically it stems from the tradition of Consumer Culture Theory, which combines a number of interpretive approaches to enhance our understanding of a wide area of phenomena in different context. On an international level, researchers in the field are organized in the Consumer Culture Theory Consortium.

Consumer culture is viewed not as a determinant cause to particular manifestations but as the contextual environment where various market actors and consumption objects interact. It can be described as the social arrangement where the relation between lived culture and symbolic and material resources, used to create meaning, is mediated through markets.

The research group will take an active part in the intra-university, national and international research network and promote multidisciplinary exchanges and programs that contribute to both the theorizing around and empirical understanding of particular topics and commercial contexts.

 

Group members

Group managers

Members

Nelli Khorsun

PhD student

Stockholm Business School
Nelli Khorsun

Andrea Lucarelli

Associate Professor

Stockholm Business School
Andrea Lucarelli

Susanna Molander

Associate Professor

Stockholm Business School
Susanna Molander

Jonathan David Schöps

Biträdande lektor

Stockholm Business School
Jonathan David Schöps

Hossain Shahriar

Gästforskare

Stockholm Business School
Hossain Shahriar

Natalia Tolstikova

Universitetslektor

Stockholm Business School
Natalia Tolstikova

Malin Wennberg

PhD student

Stockholm Business School
Malin Wennberg. Stockholm Business School

Carl Yngfalk

Assistant professor

Stockholm Business School
Carl Yngfalk

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