OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Consumer Culture is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Book Review: Eva Illouz The End of Love: A Sociology of Negative Relations	55
Postfeminism, consumption and activewear: Examining women consumers’ relationship with the postfeminine ideal	46
Divestment as investment: “Kondo-ing” selves in the context of overaccumulation	44
Book review: Geopolitical economy of sport	42
The good life as accountable: Moralities of dress consumption in China and Romania	33
Mega-events, expansion and prospects: Perceptions of Euro 2020 and its 12-country hosting format	23
Book Review: Review of diners, dudes, and diets: How gender and power collide in food media and culture	21
Governing individuals’ imaginaries and conduct in personal finance: The mobilization of emotions in financial education	12
The wall unit: State policy and the emergence of fashion in People’s Poland	12
Access to arts consumption: The stratification of aesthetic life-chances	11
Locking-down instituted practices: Understanding sustainability in the context of ‘domestic’ consumption in the remaking	11
Malls, modernity and consumption: Shopping malls as new projectors of modernity in Accra, Ghana	11
Men becoming fighters: Exploring processes of consumer socialization	11
Bingo, gender and the moral order of the household: Everyday gambling in a migrant community	11
Hidden inequalities of ease: A practice-theoretical approach to understanding the links between social deprivation and diet	10
Memories reminisced, reconciled, renewed: Hong Kong male consumers’ wardrobes and their search for a congruent self	10
Mobile trust regimes: Modes of attachment in an age of banal omnivorousness	10
Prosumer activism: The case of Britney Spears’ Brazilian fandom	8
Consuming the city: People-watching and dialectics of everyday urban life	8
If it ain’t Dutch, it ain’t much: Vereeniging Nederlandsch Fabrikaat, the citizen-consumer and Dutch nationalist consumption in the interwar Netherlands	8
How humanized birth practice became an experience connected to neoliberal philosophy	7
Creative destruction? Exploring the deliberate destruction of possessions by consumers	6
Book Review: Vegas Brews: Craft Beer and The Birth of a Local Scene	6
Gendered fandom in transcultural context- female-dominated paratexts and compromised fan culture	5
Marketable religion: How game company Ubisoft commodified religion for a global audience	5

Is there a relationship between implicit motives and eating action types: An exploratory study in Germany	5
Consumer movements, brand activism, and the participatory politics of media: A conversation	5
Eating the money: Diabetes and the embodiment of consumer culture	5
Video gaming as craft consumption	4
Aspirational taste regime: Masculinities and consumption in pick-up artist training in China	4
Book Review: The End of Love: A Sociology of Negative Relations Polity	4
“Who made my clothes?” How transparency apps bring politics to cultural fields	4
Analyzing the consumer journey for hiking of the John Muir Trail	4
Conceptualising ethical consumption within theories of practice	3
(Un)sustainable everyday practices sociomateriality shaping sustainability in an urban district	3
What Counts—Why Growth Economics is Failing Us	3
Cross-cultural perspectives on ethical consumption: A study of Swedish and Iranian citizens	3
Towards a monumental experience: Fandom and corporate imaginary within the LEGO inside tour	3
Successful failure: The marketisation of failure in an entrepreneurial economy	3
Supermarket tribes and the temple of Aldi: A comparison between the UK and Australia	3
Book Review: Upsetting Food: Three Eras of Food Protests in the United States	3
Book Review: Platforms and Cultural Production	3
Materialism versus memory: Collecting football shirts in the age of consumerism	3
Exploring the process of remote enculturation through heritage possessions: A case study of transracial international adoptees	3
A short ethnography of twenty-first century consumers: On retail rage and one-dimensionality	3
Periphery fandom: Contrasting fans’ productive experiences across the globe	2
A model who looks like me: Communicating and consuming representations of disability	2
Consumer sovereignty and the Greek economic crisis: (Dis)continuity of consumer sovereignty repertoires	2
Bad avocados, culinary standards, and knowable knowledge. Culturally appropriate rejections of meat reduction	2
Between Wellness and Elegance: Yoga Consumption in China	2
Book Review: Addictive Consumption: Capitalism, Modernity and Excess	2
Redefining consumer nationalism: The ambiguities of shopping yellow during the 2019 Hong Kong Anti-ELAB movement	2
Tennis and accelerated culture: Post-athlete as a media performer	1
Breaking through banal consumerism? Representations of postconsumerist perspectives in mainstream press media	1
The assemblage of British politics’ breaking point	1
Book Review: The Age of Fitness: How the Body Came to Symbolize Success and Achievement	1
Performing balanced aspirations through identity capital: A case study of Chinese Ivy League influencers on RedNote	1
Digital comfort amidst precarity: New middle classes’ experience of well-being and hardship in pandemic times in Brazil	1
Got to be real: An investigation into the co-fabrication of authenticity by fashion companies and digital influencers	1
Book Review: Deciphering Markets and Money. A Sociological Analysis of Economic Institutions	1
Platform urbanism in a pandemic: Dark stores, ghost kitchens, and the logistical-urban frontier	1
Book Review: Profit over privacy review	1
Beyond existential and neoliberal explanations of consumers’ embodied risk-taking: CrossFit as an articulation of reflexive modernization	1
Being social for whom? Issues of monetization, exploitation, and alienation in mobile social games	1
Remembering summer in the city: Production and consumption of yanqishui in twentieth-century Shanghai	1
Inconspicuous adaptations to climate change in everyday life: Sustainable household responses to drought and heat in Czech cities	1
Re-enchanting sustainable consumption: Cultural intermediaries, charisma, and fashion	1
I am a virtual girl from Tokyo: Virtual influencers, digital-orientalism and the (Im)materiality of race and gender	1
Tales from the crypt: A psychoanalytic approach to disability representation in advertising	1
Comfort, modernity and gender equality at home. Discourses on the modernization of the family and household in Poland from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s	1
Book Review: Digital Playgrounds: The Hidden Politics of Children’s Online Play Spaces, Virtual Worlds, and Connected Games	1
Health in the motivational process of organic product consumption: A socio-psycho hermeneutical approach	1
Grandparenting relations in advertising’s ‘familial fictions’	1
No place like home? Producing and consuming eldercare design	1
Between conspicuous and conscious consumption: The sustainability paradox in the intermediary promotional work of an online lifestyle site	1

Understanding violence on British university campuses through the lens of the deviant leisure perspective	1
Marking humans for consumption, whilst erasing others: Affective becomings and the workings of (dis)comfort	1
Post-digital prosumption and the sharing economy of space: The pay-per-minute cafe	1