Expanding disciplinary Space: On the Potential of Critical Marketing provides an introduction to the major perspectives in critical marketing studies. It contains theoretical reflections on critical marketing whilst building on the key concepts and ideas, which are vital to the subject, through detailed empirical studies. An international collection of marketing experts discuss the eclectic character and potential of the critical turn within marketing theory and practice. Chapters explore topics such as marketing academia, consumer research, political marketing, marketing ethics,...

This four-volume collection focuses on emerging and cutting-edge work which is shaping the contemporary landscape of consumer research. The volumes bring together key conceptual and research papers related to practices, sharing, politics and spaces. The editors provide a set of comprehensive introductions that scopes out current understanding in the field, and identifies directions for future research in relation to the key themes. This Major Work will be of interest to scholars in a broad range of disciplines, including Marketing and Consumer Research, Cultural Studies, Media Studies,...

Bringing together the latest thinking on both celebrity brands and celebrity culture from academics specialising in the field of marketing, this book explores a range of insightful contexts in order to add vigour and vitality to our understanding of the connections between celebrities, markets and culture. It unpacks the identity theoretics which have their origins in the turn to celebrity culture and the spectacle and glamour of mass-media practices. In doing so, the contributors hint at new forms of individuation where the line between the virtual and the actual is blurred, and where...