Anti-Consumption Issues
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A special issue of Consumption Markets and Culture edited by Robert Kozinets, Jay Handelman and Mike Lee; Deadline 15 Sep 2007
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Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:07:12 +1300
From: "Lee, Michael Shyue Wai" <msw.lee@auckland.ac.nz>
Call for Papers:
Consumption Markets and Culture: Special Issue on Anti-consumption Issues
As a phenomenon, anti-consumption ranges from activist movements to anti-brand discourses, from anti-globalization demonstrations to utopian communities, from culture jamming and alternative podcasting to voluntary simplicity book clubs, from brand and category avoidance to careful carbon-counting "green" consumption and sustainable and social marketing practices. The study of those who resist, defy, or otherwise "go against" consumption is a nascent yet burgeoning domain. Consumption Markets and Culture (CMC), along with this special issue’s guest editors, Robert Kozinets, Jay Handelman and Mike Lee, is pleased to announce a Call for Papers towards a Special Issue on Anti-consumption.
Research Topics that would fit this special issue include, but are not limited to:
- authenticity in relation to anti-consumption;
- boycotting;
- brand avoidance and / or dislike;
- consumer resistance
- culture-jamming;
- consumer grudge-holding and retaliation;
- demarketing;
- dissatisfaction;
- frugality;
- materialism and materiality;
- risk aversion towards genetically modified foods;
- social marketing to promote responsible consumption and behaviour;
- technophobia;
- undesired self and image congruency;
- voluntary simplification.
Interested authors are also invited to discuss the fit of other topics with the guest editors.
The fit between anti-consumption interests and CMC is perfect. An interdisciplinary and international journal, CMC focuses on consumerism and the markets as the site of social behaviour and discourse, and encourages pragmatic research that engages role of management. The guest editors will manage this special issue with the assistance of the existing CMC review panel and a specialist review panel. All manuscripts will be double blind peer reviewed. In addition to addressing an anti-consumption topic, eligible papers should also take into consideration the intended audience, and the unique aims and scope of CMC.
CMC plans to publish the special issue in 2008. This call for papers has been developed in association with the International Centre for Anti-Consumption Research (ICAR; see the ICAR website www.icar.auckland.ac.nz).
Submission
- The deadline for manuscript submissions is September 15th, 2007.
- Manuscripts should be formatted according to the ‘Instruction for Authors’ guidelines given on the Journal’s web site: ()
- Email attachments should be addressed to: CMC Special Issue, Michael S W Lee, msw.lee@auckland.ac.nz
- Please do not submit hard copies. Electronic submissions in PDF format or Word .doc compatible files are preferred.
- Please do not submit the manuscripts to the Editors-in-Chiefs, and please direct all Special Issue inquires to the Special Issue Guest Editors.
Looking forward to your submissions,
The Guest Editors:
Rob Kozinets (rkozinets@schulich.yorku.ca),
Jay Handelman (jhandelman@business.queensu.ca),
Mike Lee (msw.lee@auckland.ac.nz).