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If it ain’t Dutch, it ain’t much: Vereeniging Nederlandsch Fabrikaat, the citizen-consumer and Dutch nationalist consumption in the interwar Netherlands 如果它不是荷兰语，那也没什么意义:Vereeniging Nederlandsch Fabrikaat，即两次世界大战之间荷兰的公民消费者和荷兰民族主义消费

IF 2.6 3区社会学

Journal of Consumer Culture Pub Date : 2021-12-17 DOI: 10.1177/14695405211062066

Joep Onstenk

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引用次数: 1

‘If I could afford an avocado every day’: Income differences and ethical food consumption in a world of abundance “如果我每天能买得起一个鳄梨”:富裕世界的收入差异和道德食品消费

IF 2.6 3区社会学

Journal of Consumer Culture Pub Date : 2021-10-15 DOI: 10.1177/14695405211051033

A. Salonen

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引用次数: 5

Locking-down instituted practices: Understanding sustainability in the context of ‘domestic’ consumption in the remaking 锁定已制定的做法:在“国内”消费的背景下理解可持续性

IF 2.6 3区社会学

Journal of Consumer Culture Pub Date : 2021-10-04 DOI: 10.1177/14695405211039616

Tori Holmes, Carol Lord, Katherine Ellsworth-Krebs

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引用次数: 6

Book Review: Vegas Brews: Craft Beer and The Birth of a Local Scene 书评:《维加斯酿造:精酿啤酒和当地景象的诞生》

IF 2.6 3区社会学

Journal of Consumer Culture Pub Date : 2021-10-03 DOI: 10.1177/14695405211049926

E. T. Withers

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Book Review: Upsetting Food: Three Eras of Food Protests in the United States 书评:《令人不安的食物:美国食物抗议的三个时代》

IF 2.6 3区社会学

Journal of Consumer Culture Pub Date : 2021-09-25 DOI: 10.1177/14695405211049925

Yao‐Tai Li

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Book Review: The Age of Fitness: How the Body Came to Symbolize Success and Achievement 书评:《健身时代:身体如何成为成功和成就的象征》

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Journal of Consumer Culture Pub Date : 2021-09-25 DOI: 10.1177/14695405211049927

Hallie Chu

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The wall unit: State policy and the emergence of fashion in People’s Poland 墙单元：国家政策与时尚在波兰人民的兴起

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Journal of Consumer Culture Pub Date : 2021-09-08 DOI: 10.1177/14695405211039607

J. Zalewska, M. Jewdokimow

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Limited, considered and sustainable consumption: The (non)consumption practices of UK minimalists 有限的，深思熟虑的和可持续的消费:英国极简主义者的(非)消费实践

IF 2.6 3区社会学

Journal of Consumer Culture Pub Date : 2021-08-23 DOI: 10.1177/14695405211039608

Amber Martin-Woodhead

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引用次数: 17

“Inspiring” and configuring consumer experience in times of crisis: An analysis of the discursive practices of an Athenian shopping mall’s promotional system 危机时期“激励”与配置消费者体验:雅典购物中心促销系统话语实践分析

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Journal of Consumer Culture Pub Date : 2021-08-19 DOI: 10.1177/14695405211039611

Dimitris Lallas, Yorgos Drosos

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A short ethnography of twenty-first century consumers: On retail rage and one-dimensionality 21世纪消费者的简短民族志：零售愤怒与一维

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Journal of Consumer Culture Pub Date : 2021-08-18 DOI: 10.1177/14695405211039614

K. Bingham

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