Consumption and society in the 21st century

Daniel Welch, M. Sahakian, S. Wahlen
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We are delighted to present the inaugural issue of Consumption and Society. Our ambition for the journal is to invigorate and innovate the field of consumption studies and to renew the relevance of the study of consumption for the global social challenges of the 21st century. Consumption and Society will contribute to debates on contested aspects of consumption, such as environmental impacts, digitalisation, the shifting balance of collective versus private consumption, commodification and inequalities. Moreover, the journal aims to bring the distinctive lens of consumption studies to key contemporary debates, around issues such as the Anthropocene, care, decolonisation, surveillance capitalism, platform economies and political populism. This reflects an understanding of consumption as embedded in wider socioeconomic, political and cultural configurations, and intrinsically related to issues of social and environmental justice, as well as other normative notions such as prosperity, wellbeing and the good life. Journals are often launched in response to a particular historical moment and to scholarly reflection on those new times. This was certainly true of the two major journals of our field, Consumption, Markets and Culture, founded in 1997, and The Journal of Consumer Culture, founded in 2001. In the editorial introduction to the first issue of Consumption, Markets and Culture, Fuat Firat (1997: 1) reflected that the journal would address these three phenomena through which ‘understanding of the critical issues of the end of the twentieth century’ were commonly conceived. The title of The Journal of Consumer Culture is equally instructive of the core concerns of consumption scholarship at the time of its launch. The field of consumption studies was an early touchstone for major debates on macro-social change, especially around the issues of globalisation, the rise of cultural pluralism, aestheticisation and the decline of traditional
21世纪的消费与社会
我们很高兴推出《消费与社会》的创刊号。我们的目标是振兴和创新消费研究领域,并更新消费研究与21世纪全球社会挑战的相关性。《消费与社会》将有助于讨论消费中有争议的方面,如环境影响、数字化、集体消费与私人消费之间平衡的转变、商品化和不平等。此外,该杂志旨在将消费研究的独特视角引入当代关键辩论,围绕人类世、关怀、非殖民化、监控资本主义、平台经济和政治民粹主义等问题。这反映了一种对消费的理解,它植根于更广泛的社会经济、政治和文化配置中,与社会和环境正义问题以及繁荣、幸福和美好生活等其他规范性概念有着内在的联系。期刊通常是为了回应特定的历史时刻和对新时代的学术反思而创办的。对于我们这个领域的两本主要期刊,1997年创刊的《消费、市场与文化》和2001年创刊的《消费文化杂志》来说,确实如此。在《消费、市场与文化》第一期的社论导言中,Fuat Firat(1997: 1)反映,该杂志将通过“对20世纪末关键问题的理解”来阐述这三种现象。《消费文化杂志》的标题同样说明了消费学术在创刊时的核心关注点。消费研究领域是关于宏观社会变革的主要辩论的早期试金石,特别是围绕全球化、文化多元主义的兴起、审美化和传统文化的衰落等问题
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