Material Politics: An Introduction

Hilton, Matthew; Daunton, Martin

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“…9 Critics of this approach, however, argue, first, that consumerism weakens the genuine or the idealized rational discussions of the public sphere and, second, that consumer struggles are usually single-issue campaigns that do not translate into wider struggles. 10 Theorists of marketing contend that in the global economy market power has shifted from producer to consumers. Accordingly, the use of boycotts has been found to be on the rise in recent years, though their specific impact on firms is hard to assess.…”

Section: Politics and Consumer Powermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…3 The study of consumer involvement in politics is related to the relationship between the consumer, citizenship and the state as it establishes both the extent to which the state can intervene in issues of consumption and the extent to which the consumer is active in the political process. 4 The choices consumers make between products can extend beyond tastes, prices and values to moral-political considerations. Indeed, consumers are often called to make the right choice to prefer certain products for the way they are produced, environmentally and socially.…”

Section: Politics and Consumer Powermentioning

confidence: 99%

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Boycotting for Sabbath: religious consumerism as a political strategy

Shamir

Ben‐Porat

2007

Contemporary Politics

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Section: Politics and Consumer Powermentioning

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Section: Politics and Consumer Powermentioning

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Boycotting for Sabbath: religious consumerism as a political strategy

Shamir

Ben‐Porat

2007

Contemporary Politics

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“…42 Hilton defines the core interests of consumption studies as: the means by which identities are established in a commodified world, whether by the conscious actions of consumers themselves, the deliberate manipulation of their desires by the marketing and sales experts, of by the interaction of people with a range of goods, the function of which is hidden beneath an enormous array of symbolic meanings and imagery. 43 Far from representing attempts to define a singular design historical methodology, or to replace one focus with another, part of this shift related to recognition of the benefits of interdisciplinary approaches to the understanding of design history. When The Journal of Design History appeared in 1988, just over a decade after the inception of the Design History Society, the opening editorial recognised that the "design historian is accustomed to the contingency of many disciplines, and the Journal must reflect that."…”

Section: -The Consumption Emphasis: Design History and Interdiscipmentioning

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The Production-Consumption-Mediation Paradigm

Lees‐Maffei

2009

Journal of Design History

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This article elaborates a production-consumption-mediation paradigm in design history, to examine both the development of design history over the past three decades and the current and future practice of design history, specifically within the UK. While John A. Walker made the case in 1989 for increased design historical attention to be paid to issues of consumption, this article identifies mediation as a third stream in design history, with three prongs: first, the mediation emphasis continues the consumption turn within design history by exploring the role of channels such as television, magazines, corporate literature, advice literature and so on in mediating between producers and consumers and forming consumption practices and ideas about design; second, the mediation emphasis examines the extent to which mediating channels are themselves designed and therefore open to design historical analysisindeed, these channels have increasingly constituted the design historian"s object of study; third, the mediation emphasis investigates the role of designed goods themselves as mediating devices. The identification of the PCM paradigm, and the discussion of the methodological and interdisciplinary issues arising provided here, including the relationship of design history to neighbouring fields, have implications for conceptions of the field of design history, in both content and approach.

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“…. emphasis on liberation, the freedom to construct identities, and the ability of consumers to empower themselves through the deliberate orchestration of commodity meanings" [86] (p. 8). Consequently, the emergence of a postmaterialist critical mass has only recently rendered possible what Kotler describes as a "democracy of goods" [79] (p. 9).…”

Section: Consumption and Citizenship: Towards An Empowered Citizen-comentioning

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Political Consumerism as a Neoliberal Response to Youth Political Disengagement

Kyroglou

Henn

2017

Societies

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Recent trends indicate diminishing public engagement with formal electoral politics in many advanced liberal democracies, especially among the younger generations. However, evidence also suggests that there has been a simultaneous interest by many young citizens in political consumerism. In large part, this interest is shaped as a response to the individualisation and strict 'economism' driven by the underlying forces of neoliberalism. Disenfranchised and disillusioned by the seeming incapacity of the purely political sphere to respond to their individualised claims, and having internalised the neoliberal critique of democracy, these young empowered citizen-consumers often search for the 'political' within the bounds of the marketplace and are increasingly attracted to consumerist methods of political participation, such as boycotting and buycotting. Given the susceptibility of political consumerism to a neoliberal modus operandi, the lack of available literature problematising its emergence as a response to neoliberal principles is somewhat surprising. The present article will address this gap by connecting the declining levels of electoral participation among younger generations in post-crisis Europe to the rise of political consumerism within the neoliberal ideological hegemony of the 'marketopoly'. We distinguish between two antithetical, but complimentary effects. Firstly, the internalised neoliberal critique of democracy emphasises the 'push' out of the public into the commercial sphere. Secondly, the emerging individualisation of modern 'liquid' politics advanced by the postmaterialist sensitivities of young people's previously affluent socialisation call attention to the existence of a parallel 'pull' effect into the 'marketopoly', as a habitus of youth political participation. In both cases, the reorganisation of political participation as consumption, and the re-styling of young citizens as 'empowered' consumers, delineates political consumerism as an efficacious response to their political disengagement in an increasingly marketised world.

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Material Politics: An Introduction

Cited by 11 publications

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Boycotting for Sabbath: religious consumerism as a political strategy

Boycotting for Sabbath: religious consumerism as a political strategy

The Production-Consumption-Mediation Paradigm

Political Consumerism as a Neoliberal Response to Youth Political Disengagement

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