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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Towards a circular economy in food consumption: Food waste reduction practices as ethical work	47
Limited, considered and sustainable consumption: The (non)consumption practices of UK minimalists	26
Conceptualising ethical consumption within theories of practice	25
The gamblification of digital games	22
Platform urbanism in a pandemic: Dark stores, ghost kitchens, and the logistical-urban frontier	20
Consumer movements, brand activism, and the participatory politics of media: A conversation	19
Battle pass capitalism	17
I am a virtual girl from Tokyo: Virtual influencers, digital-orientalism and the (Im)materiality of race and gender	16
Speculating on Steam: Consumption in the gamblified platform ecosystem	15
Productive play: The shift from responsible consumption to responsible production	14
Epic, Steam, and the role of skin-betting in game (platform) economies	11
Eating alone, or commensality redefined? Solo dining and the aestheticization of eating (out)	11
A model who looks like me: Communicating and consuming representations of disability	10
Got to be real: An investigation into the co-fabrication of authenticity by fashion companies and digital influencers	9
Spinning is winning: Social casino apps and the platformization of gamble-play	8
Locking-down instituted practices: Understanding sustainability in the context of ‘domestic’ consumption in the remaking	8
Malls, modernity and consumption: Shopping malls as new projectors of modernity in Accra, Ghana	8
Gaming the gift: The affective economy of League of Legends ‘fair’ free-to-play model	7
Reimagining the terrain of liquid times: Reflexive marketing and the sociological imagination	7
Becoming hegemony: The case for the (Italian) animal advocacy and veganwashing operations	7
Sovereign dupes? Representations, conventions and (un)sustainable consumption	7
Overlaps and accumulations: The anatomy of cultural non-participation in Finland, 2007 to 2018	6
‘If I could afford an avocado every day’: Income differences and ethical food consumption in a world of abundance	6
Dimensionalizing esports consumption: Alternative journeys to professional play	6
Symbolic vibration: A meaning-based framework for the study of vibrator consumption	5

Beyond existential and neoliberal explanations of consumers’ embodied risk-taking: CrossFit as an articulation of reflexive modernization	5
Framing sufficiency: Strategies of environmental non-governmental organisations towards reduced material consumption	5
Bingo, gender and the moral order of the household: Everyday gambling in a migrant community	4
“Enjoy your experience”: Symbolic violence and becoming a tasteful state cannabis consumer in Canada	4
Video gaming as craft consumption	4
The politics of food: The global conflict between food security and food sovereignty	4
Lifestyles of enough exploring sufficiency-oriented consumption behavior from a social practice theory perspective	4
English fever and coffee: Transient cosmopolitanism and the rising cost of distinction	4
Free repair against the consumer society: How repair cafés socialize people to a new relationship to objects	4
“Customer is king”: Staging consumer culture in a food aid organization	4
Influences on ethical decision-making among porn consumers: The role of stigma	4
Autonomy or loyalty? Community-within-community interactions of a local football fandom group	4
The conflict market: Polarizing consumer culture(s) in counter-democracy	4
Redefining consumer nationalism: The ambiguities of shopping yellow during the 2019 Hong Kong Anti-ELAB movement	4
The socioeconomic concentration of intensive production interest: Lessons from the tiny home community	4
Inconspicuous adaptations to climate change in everyday life: Sustainable household responses to drought and heat in Czech cities	3
Divestment as investment: “Kondo-ing” selves in the context of overaccumulation	3
Book Review: The Age of Fitness: How the Body Came to Symbolize Success and Achievement	3
Tales from the crypt: A psychoanalytic approach to disability representation in advertising	3
“Pulling the sheep’s wool”: The labour of online thrift in a Chinese factory	3
Chinese outbound tourists as international consumer in Northern Thailand—A dynamic mobility perspective	3
Mega-events, expansion and prospects: Perceptions of Euro 2020 and its 12-country hosting format	3
Periphery fandom: Contrasting fans’ productive experiences across the globe	3
Practices of thrift among high cultural capital consumers. When economic status gets in the way of ethics	3
Successful failure: The marketisation of failure in an entrepreneurial economy	2
The German space of lifestyles: A multidetermined structure	2
Post-digital prosumption and the sharing economy of space: The pay-per-minute cafe	2
Naive, connected, and counselor tween girl identity groups: Consumption practices and social identity constructions within consumer culture	2
Listening to music videos on YouTube. Digital consumption practices and the environmental impact of streaming	2
Cultural stratification in the UK: Persistent gender and class differences in cultural voraciousness	2
“Names doing rounds”: On brands in the bazaar economy	2
Pink purchasing: Interrogating the soft power of Japan’s kawaii consumption	2
How does materiality ‘bite back’? Investigating cassette tapes in local, translocal and virtual music scenes	2
Postfeminism, consumption and activewear: Examining women consumers’ relationship with the postfeminine ideal	2
Consuming the city: People-watching and dialectics of everyday urban life	2
Trouble in virtual heaven: Origin and consequences of social conflict in online consumption communities	1
No place like home? Producing and consuming eldercare design	1
Flaneuring the buyosphere: A comparative historical analysis of shopping environments and phantasmagorias	1
Trajectories towards a voluntary simplicity lifestyle and inner growth	1
Between Wellness and Elegance: Yoga Consumption in China	1
Prosumer activism: The case of Britney Spears’ Brazilian fandom	1
Memories reminisced, reconciled, renewed: Hong Kong male consumers’ wardrobes and their search for a congruent self	1
Meanings and attitudes regarding education and household spending priorities of the new middle-class families in Brazil	1
Lessons from science fiction: Frederik Pohl and the robot prosumer	1
The consumer, the market and the universal aristocracy: The ideology of academisation in England	1
The right to shine: Poverty, consumption and (de) politicization in neoliberal Brazil	1
Is there a relationship between implicit motives and eating action types: An exploratory study in Germany	1
Authentic style–fashion–dress negotiations of married lesbian couples on their wedding day	1
Legitimating taste in cultural fields: Generational classifications and symbolic struggles in representations of ‘natural’ wine	1
How the practice of commercializing comes together and falls apart in a market of wearable technologies	1

Book Review: Consumer Culture Theory	1
Frank Trentmann,Empire of things: How we became a world of consumers, from the fifteenth century to the twenty-first	1
Remembering summer in the city: Production and consumption of yanqishui in twentieth-century Shanghai	1
The good life as accountable: Moralities of dress consumption in China and Romania	1
‘We can’t participate like this at football, can we’? Exploring in-person performative prosumer fandom at live PDC darts events	1
Marketable religion: How game company Ubisoft commodified religion for a global audience	1
If it ain’t Dutch, it ain’t much: Vereeniging Nederlandsch Fabrikaat, the citizen-consumer and Dutch nationalist consumption in the interwar Netherlands	1
Grandparenting relations in advertising’s ‘familial fictions’	1
Searching for the “right feeling”: Sense of place and the social architecture of middle-class homebuying choices	1